The Love High

(Inspired by a follow blogger named Vivian)

"Courting" a new partner and falling in love are great.  They say the "high" you get can last from 3 months to 1.5 years!!!!  Amazing, eh?  The emotion of falling in love actually releases endorphins and raises serotonins levels in your brain. Well, then the high goes away and you are left "sober" and bills have to be paid and – yah, the newness wears off. 

By then have learned most of the things about each other and you start telling the old stories over again (these used to be new and interesting)...  the excitement becomes reduced.  Yup - then you are in a relationship. Not that you don’t love the other person…. But they don’t make you feel the way you did in the beginning – how could they, it was you that was “High”... your emotions – your chemicals lifting your feet off the ground.

Relationships take work, trust, allowances, etc. The first part of all our love lives are fun, happy, crasy.....  too the point it's a little unreal.  You can't expect to have someone dying to see you all the time for an example.

Passion to stay with each other, passion to be a good caring partner - these are some of the things that keep the relationship alive.  Plus couples should look back at their crazy times and not wish them over again (worse with a new partner) but look back and smile and say, “we were crazy, together.... and I'm glad it was you, that it was, I fell in love with."  Most of all Friendship is key.   The friendship that was developed while you were (getting) high together can be the common thread that holds you together - years to come.  Just because the intial High might loose it’s buzz it doesn’t mean you aren’t “in love”.

I think in today’s world often people are looking for more and more and some actually get caught up in jumping from “relationship” to ‘relationship” just to keep the high.