If your relationship has changed, you are normal. Here’s how the three stages of love change over time. Most couples start with sizzling hot chemistry, drift into comfortable attraction, and settle into a deep emotional attachment. If your romantic relationship has changed over the years or months, you and your partner are 100% normal.
One of the most important tips on how to love an emotionally unavailable man is to stop trying to change or fix him. Change takes a lot of hard work and dedication, and nobody can do it unless he really, really wants to. Let go of the illusion that your love will open your man up, that your emotional depth and commitment is enough to save your relationship. But, hold on to the fact that even though love changes, you can change with it! Below are the three phases of love, plus tips for reconnecting with your husband or boyfriend.
1: Romantic feelings and chemistry
Romantic love is driven by testosterone and estrogen. Mating is the evolutionary purpose of this stage of love; it creates strong physical attraction and sets the stage for emotional attachment. In this phase of love, endorphin's soak your brain and you’re immersed in intense pleasure. Your partner is perfect, ideal, made for you.
2: Physical attraction and power struggles
In the second phase of a romantic love relationship, you may lose your appetite, need less sleep, and daydream about your lover on the bus, during meetings, in the shower. In this stage of love, the hormones dopa mine, nor epinephrine, and serotonin are racing through your body and brain. You’re also trying to shape your lover into your ideal partner – which is where the power struggles come in (and where the book How to Change Someone You Love might come in, too!)
3: Emotional attachment or unconditional acceptance
A mature love relationship involves commitment, partnership, and even children. In this phase of love, you’re aware of both positive and negative traits in your partner, and you’ve decided you want to build a life together – and perhaps get married. Confrontation is most likely to occur in this stage of love (though if you’re authentic and honest, it’ll also happen in the second phase). You and your partner will either stay committed to a healthy love relationship or decide to call it quits.
1: Romantic feelings and chemistry
2: Physical attraction and power struggles
In the second phase of a romantic love relationship, you may lose your appetite, need less sleep, and daydream about your lover on the bus, during meetings, in the shower. In this stage of love, the hormones dopa mine, nor epinephrine, and serotonin are racing through your body and brain. You’re also trying to shape your lover into your ideal partner – which is where the power struggles come in (and where the book How to Change Someone You Love might come in, too!)3: Emotional attachment or unconditional acceptance
No comments:
Post a Comment