You are not quite sure how you got yourself into the affair, and even less sure about how to end an affair. You love your paramour but hate the sneaking and cheating. So constantly, you vacillate between ending the affair and giving yourself totally to it.
Though limerence by its very nature is relatively short-lived (typically lasting somewhere between 3 months and 36 months) it is a very real and intense emotion/feeling. When a person decides to leave a limerent relationship, or if they are the one abandoned by the other, the emotions don't immediately disappear.
You're separated from your spouse, but you still, at least occasionally, have sex with each other. That's not unusual, right? Many couples do it. But is it smart?
Porn creates a set of expectations about sex in marriage that are quite literally impossible to fulfill. But there's more... READ
The person that you love, who once so deeply loved you, now treats you as if you are the enemy. You long for any sign of affection; a hug, a smile, even a kind word. You pray that it will be once again what it once was. You ache in a way you cannot explain, a pain that never subsides during the day and that wakes you at night. Read This Article.
Marriages can have more than just communication glitches. Marriages can have communication breakdowns indicative of problems in the marriage. Click here to read.
I ask my husband a question; I wait 30 minutes. I promise. 30 minutes for him to respond. Sometimes I wait for an hour. Sometimes I wait for 2 days. What is that? Let’s look at some possible reasons why he’s not talking. Click here to read.
No matter your love language, nothing speaks love more deeply than someone who knows your deepest, darkest secrets and yet still believes in you. You, along with every human heart, long to have someone who knows you, flaws and all, and still accepts you and cares for you.
