Your heart is pounding furiously, you have sweaty hands when they come close to you and you are incessant in thinking about the other when they are not around.
The beginning of a relationship is a mix of growing feelings, desires, intellectual appeal and heightened happiness. Basically, it’s the moment when you have the most intense sensations and your head is all in disarray. That’s the moment we fall in love.
However, after the utopian moments comes disillusionment time. But how long does this love-only guided period last?
How long does the honeymoon phase last?
Commonly nicknamed the “honeymoon phase,” romantic euphoria has us lost in a moment of complete fascination with the other person. Basically, we tend to overvalue the qualities of our new significant other.
However, as we all know, love goes through different phases, and euphoria isn’t here to stay. In fact, as time goes by, we only discover more about the other person. As a result, we dig our heads out of the clouds and go through a more stable and realistic phase.
This doesn’t mean that love evaporates, but that it becomes more mature and lasting (but be careful not to get caught in a mundane routine).
What makes a couple last and how do you fight routine?
Eventually, love can stop being enough… Between fights, insufferable behaviors or lack of “couple time,” this romantic idyll that started so well can end just as quickly.
To avoid this, place communication at the center of the relationship. It’s also essential to listen to the other and express your feelings. Moreover, it’s fundamental to put trust at the heart of the relationship, in order to feel secure.
