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A relationship is like a freshly baked cake. Both partners hold equal amount of ingredients for the making of this cake and what ingredients they add to the cake eventually results in the taste, texture and overall quality of the cake. But these ingredients and the importance of each ingredient must be worked out before the baking of the cake begins. You choose if you want more eggs, more flour, more milk, or more sugar. Both partners may differ in how they want the cake to turn out, but eventually, a mutual consensus is reached whereby the eventual cake is something both partners desire.

This cake merely forms the basic structure of a relationship. When the cake comes freshly baked from the oven, one's instinct would be to delve into the cake immediately. However, we cannot do that because whatever comes out from the oven would be just the basic requirements for a successful relationship. As time wears on, one must add more layers to the cake, spreading a layer of velvet cream or jam in between the layers to secure the layers together and make sure that they don't come apart, as well as add the occasional icing to add interest to the cake as well as to enhance the taste of the cake when it is eventually eaten. The layers of cream that gel the different layers of cake together should ideally be of different flavours, and it can be as different as chocolate cake and cream cheese, or have a difference as subtle as chocolate cream and chocolate mousse. This adds variety and interest to the cake, but yet these differences must compliment each other in terms of taste.

Occasionally, one might realise that the cake might stale. That is the time for both partners to step back and re look at the sections of the cake that are beginning to turn bad and amend it, best done by attempting to remodel that section of the cake, or by simply cutting that small section off entirely. As time wears on, the cake might begin to look a little odd in physical shape due to the removal of certain stale sections, but still remains firm and ultimately, still standing.

In time to come, both partners might decide to eventually eat the cake. Starting with the top layer of the cake, which should now resemble a wedding cake in form, aesthetic appearance and quality, both partners may eventually choose to cut the cake with a shared knife, while ensuring that the cake does not topple. However, even at the moment whereby both partners decide to eat the cake, they must be mindful of that fact that this does not signify the ending of the building of the cake- but rather, that both partners must balance both eating into the cake and the continued building of the cake to ensure that the cake is never fully eaten.