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Ten Questions to Ask Yourself When You Think You’ve Found the One
#3 Are you braver, bolder, and better with them?
Being in love is like being high. Literally.
We feel euphoric when we’re around someone we love. We can’t stop thinking about them. We’re in pain when we’re apart. We don’t want our encounters with them to end.
This is a beautiful and powerful feeling. But it’s also confusing as hell. We want to find love. Sometimes desperately. We want to feel seen and heard and validated. And love, we think, can bring us all these things.
Peeling apart how we feel about someone from our deepest wishes and desires, as well as the fantasies we create about them, is one of the hardest things we can do. It’s difficult to be honest with ourselves when our emotions are exploding like fireworks.
We all know how alluring it can be to be swept up in all those warm and fuzzy emotions and carried down the river of love. Yet, it’s probably unwise to jump headfirst into every relationship that shows a glimmer of promise, as much as we might want to.
Why? Because you know how nastily it can end. As beautiful as falling in love is, falling out of love is equally as brutal. And if we’re not careful, if we don’t inject a little bit of care into choosing our…
