Is it lust or love?
Now this is a tricky one and one that people ask me about a fair amount. Both love and lust have very similar symptoms:
• Can’t get the other out of your mind
• You may get hot flushes or butterflies when they are around
• Non stop pointless calls, emails or texts
Need I go on!
You can actually have both at the same time (obviously a fantastic relationship).
There are actually three stages of falling in love it has been reported:
Stage 1 – lust
Stage 2 - the soppy bit and
Stage 3 - the attachment stage (being in love)
When people first meet and they go through the lust stage it tends to be full on and couples make an effort to be really romantic, but just can’t keep their hands off each other – it’s new and therefore exciting.
Sad to say but many couples end up falling at the second hurdle, as they discover whether they are really compatible after the lust part of the relationship. Most aren’t, but then you get top run over the exciting lust stage again when you meet someone new.
Then you get the couples that go the distance and devote their lives to each other. This is when you experience true love.
There is no timescale to these stages and they can all vary based on what sort of people you are. Almost everyone goes through these stages and the truth is that if you end up being ‘in love’ then you have done really well.
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