richierich said:

Awwww poor baby!!!

nakedpianoplayer said:

ok, i'll bite.

i think love is fluid and it changes its shape the longer you get to know someone. i think it can be stretched very thin sometimes, and sometimes i think it's so thick that nothing can get through it. i think sometimes love can be more in the mind, and sometimes i think it can be more in the body and sometimes i think it can be all 100% emotional, or sometimes all three at the same time. i think what messes a lot of people up is that they expect a relationship to be just like the first few months, when you're in your honeymoon stage and everything is unicorns and lollipops and little dancing elves and talking bunnies. and it's not gonna be like that. at some point, little things they do are going to annoy you and at some point, they're not going to think it's cute that you fart in bed anymore. but it won't mean that the love is gone. it just means there's more familiarity, that it's going to another level, and while that level may not feel as if it has the "novelty" of when you first met, it just takes a bit more nuanced appreciation to make work. honestly, i like it when the honeymoon stage wears off, as much fun as it is...i like the quietness of being with someone, when everything we do doesn't have to be some big monumental romantic epic occasion anymore and we can get off just doing laundry together or sitting on a couch together reading books or walking to the grocery for dish soap and toilet paper.

how does someone know they're in love? i just think you know. to put it in words would be to cheapen it, i think.