I found the title of this article jarring. Then I read it, and couldn't help but relate. I've only been married for four months. But I already feel very differently about my husband than I did before we got married or even from when I met him almost four years ago. A lot has changed.
Infatuation is defined as:
Love, as I know it now, is far different than I felt when I knew, that he was the one for me. I know it will change even more over time.
As the article notes, "No, love isn’t an emotion or even a noun. It’s a verb. Better defined as giving. As putting someone else’s needs above your own. Why wasn’t I getting reciprocal lovey-doveyness when we were first married? Because it wasn’t for her. It was for me. An emotion I had in my chest. And even when I let it out of my chest, it wasn’t love. Being sappy isn’t love. Telling someone you love them doesn’t mean that you do. "
Infatuation is defined as:
in·fat·u·a·tion: [ in fàchoo áysh'n ] 1. temporary passion: an intense but short-lived and irrational passion for somebody or something
Love, as I know it now, is far different than I felt when I knew, that he was the one for me. I know it will change even more over time.
As the article notes, "No, love isn’t an emotion or even a noun. It’s a verb. Better defined as giving. As putting someone else’s needs above your own. Why wasn’t I getting reciprocal lovey-doveyness when we were first married? Because it wasn’t for her. It was for me. An emotion I had in my chest. And even when I let it out of my chest, it wasn’t love. Being sappy isn’t love. Telling someone you love them doesn’t mean that you do. "
