Do you assume other people's relationships are better or worse than they appear?
Whenever I've spent time with a couple that just don't seem to click very well, or one of the couple seems to be a bit of a git, I always say to myself, I guess things must be different when it's just the two of them or why would they be together?
But, some very good friends of mine have recently split up (they have 1 dc). I would never have thought they were having such major problems. I knew they were having some difficult times, but I thought their relationship was strong and it was just external pressures making it hard. But it turns out that when it was 'just the two of them' they were making each other miserable and had been for a long long time.
It's really thrown my ideas about how other people work. I suppose DH and I are more loving and affectionate in private than in public and I assumed that's what most people are like.
How does your public relationship match up to your private one?