@upspiral.life: Nobody warns you that you'll fall out of love with the same person more than once. Six hard truths about long-term love. Follow me then comment UPSPIRAL and I'll send you more information about my programs. You can also click the link in my bio. Long-term love is not one continuous feeling. It cycles. Some seasons you can't get enough of them. Some seasons you look across the kitchen and think, who are you. Both belong. The person you married is going to disappear. So are you. Ten years from now neither of you is the one who stood at the altar. The job is meeting the next version of them and getting curious all over again. Some years of a great relationship are boring. Work, laundry, kids, dinner, Netflix, bed, repeat. We're trained to read low intensity as low love. Low intensity is also what safety feels like to a regulated nervous system, and safety is the ground everything else grows out of. Your partner cannot make you feel loved all the time. They'll misread you. Forget the thing. Say it wrong. Some days they're emotionally unavailable because they're a person with their own stuff running. You'll let some things go without ever processing them. Not betrayal. Not cruelty. Those need repair. I mean the weird tone on a Saturday morning. The mood after a brutal day at work. Don't investigate every irritation. Let some of it roll off. And eventually it comes down to how you treat the person you found. Chemistry gets you through the door. Compatibility matters. Forty years gets built out of tiny decisions nobody applauds. How you speak when you're tired. Whether you assume the best or the worst. Whether tomorrow gets to be a fresh start. A great love story almost never looks like one while you're living it. It looks like Thursday. A thousand Thursdays tells the real story. #UpSpiralLife #LongTermRelationships #MarriageAdvice #RelationshipAdvice #LoveThatLasts

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