Thinking Aloud; Relationship Metaphor.

A person is like a forest. And when you start a relationship, you have to work to make that forest into a nice garden. And then even when you have the garden, you still need to look after it, ie; cut the grass occasionally... (I am loving this metaphor, by the way :P) but eventually if you do want to end it, everything will go back to normal. It may take time to recover, but it will eventually become overgrown and a forest again.