I just think traditional Italian style pizzas taste better, ok.

I always quiver with disdain when I hear a friend who used to have her own brain say "oh, WE love that restaurant" or "oh, WE didn't like that movie".

Which is why I felt like a house had been lifted off my shoulders (a brick one) when I read an interview on the Gourmet Traveller website (yes, ok, I find the oh-so-perfectly-styled food photos relaxing) with Author and Amazing Person, Elizabeth Gilbert, talking about what it is like travelling with her partner.

"[S]tanding in a marketplace screaming at a merchant that he's a cheat and a thief and that the deal's off, and then coming back and settling the deal, which is one of my husband's favourite things to do when he's on vacation.

I think we're still sorting out how to do it. What I've realised is that we do really well if it's a designated holiday for five days, and I'll bring a pile of books and I'll have to make sure it's somewhere where we can walk to a lot of things and restaurants and where there's a good bar where he can relax. I've abandoned the notion that we're travel soulmates.

As with everything else I've pointed out in the book, it's a lot to pile on one person, that they match you on every single level and at every single moment."

How true is that?! This quote spoke so much truth to me. It is a lot to ask of someone that they will always want to do what you do, and think what you think. And how unattractive a quality is that anyway?

I don't know how couples pretend to like the same things all the time. Once, my boyfriend Cristiano Ronaldo* ordered a pizza with five kinds of meat on it and chicken and BBQ sauce and I felt like screaming "that's disgusting! It doesn't even have one vegetable on it!" And as I ate it with BBQ sauce dribbling down my arm (hate BBQ sauce, did you get that in the subtle undertones?), I thought to myself "Why didn't I just order my own?" Like a normal, brain-headed girl would have.

Is it so much to ask for a few basil leaves and some fetta cheese? I'm just saying.

*alias