Do you feel most loved when showered in grand gestures and commitments?
Or do you most experience love through smaller, everyday acts of care? Have you ever been in love? What different kinds of love have you experienced — romantic, platonic or familial? Is love something that you enjoy dreaming about or talking about with friends or family members? Or do you think that you’re still learning what love is and how it can feel? What romantic gestures would you like to see your SO do for you?
My wife recently told me that she didn't feel I loved her enough, or at least expressed it in a way that makes her feel that I do. I do things that I think you would expect every partner to do and think that it may be we grew complacent. I've thought I could take to more deliberate ways to show/express my feelings for her. What's the biggest grand gesture a S.O. made for you, where the S.O. thought s/he succeeded, but you weren't so thrilled? What are some romantic gestures that girls do that completely melt your heart? What is the most romantic thing you have done for someone that has either backfired or was not received well by the person you did it for? For women in long term relationships, what keeps it alive? How do you keep that "in love" feeling alive?
I have been married for two years and the honeymoon phase has ended. What is your advice to keep things fresh and loving with your spouse? What does being “in love” feel/look like to you?
Some people always tell us love isn’t fast, fiery and overly passionate. Some feel like those things are all necessary for them to feel in love. What does being in love look like for you? What does it feel like to be in love? Did you feel it right away or did gradually fall in love? What is real love supposed to feel like?
How should you feel when you're loved? In your own words, what does falling in love feel like? I [40F] have been "seeing" a man [34M] for a year. It's a typical "it's complicated" in that we have had frank discussions of why we can't be forever partners, but we have a deeply connected, caring, "loving but not in love" relationship. COVID brought us together, and we spent a lot of time playing house. Anyway, this lovely man has never really had much luck dating. Like many men, he struggles to get dates OLD, and has never had much success holding a long term relationship. He is attractive, smart, incredibly empathetic, unreal sexual chemistry, blah blah. He has told me I am his healthiest relationship to date.
Anyway, he has not had the opportunity to experience many simple relationship basics that are just second nature to my serial monogamist self. Things like having dinner ready for him when he came home from work on occasion, getting regular compliments, cuddles and PDAs, chance to really explore sexually with someone, a thoughtful card, taking mini vacations, showering with someone etc. A recent one is he has never had an actual date for new year's. So, daters of Reddit, and particularly those of you who have been more on the single side than not, what little relationship things have really made you smile? Those easy, simple gestures that show your partner cares, was thinking of you, desires you, etc. The ones that maybe you took for granted or were particularly touching.
My wife recently told me that she didn't feel I loved her enough, or at least expressed it in a way that makes her feel that I do. I do things that I think you would expect every partner to do and think that it may be we grew complacent. I've thought I could take to more deliberate ways to show/express my feelings for her. What's the biggest grand gesture a S.O. made for you, where the S.O. thought s/he succeeded, but you weren't so thrilled? What are some romantic gestures that girls do that completely melt your heart? What is the most romantic thing you have done for someone that has either backfired or was not received well by the person you did it for? For women in long term relationships, what keeps it alive? How do you keep that "in love" feeling alive?
I have been married for two years and the honeymoon phase has ended. What is your advice to keep things fresh and loving with your spouse? What does being “in love” feel/look like to you?
Some people always tell us love isn’t fast, fiery and overly passionate. Some feel like those things are all necessary for them to feel in love. What does being in love look like for you? What does it feel like to be in love? Did you feel it right away or did gradually fall in love? What is real love supposed to feel like?
How should you feel when you're loved? In your own words, what does falling in love feel like? I [40F] have been "seeing" a man [34M] for a year. It's a typical "it's complicated" in that we have had frank discussions of why we can't be forever partners, but we have a deeply connected, caring, "loving but not in love" relationship. COVID brought us together, and we spent a lot of time playing house. Anyway, this lovely man has never really had much luck dating. Like many men, he struggles to get dates OLD, and has never had much success holding a long term relationship. He is attractive, smart, incredibly empathetic, unreal sexual chemistry, blah blah. He has told me I am his healthiest relationship to date.
Anyway, he has not had the opportunity to experience many simple relationship basics that are just second nature to my serial monogamist self. Things like having dinner ready for him when he came home from work on occasion, getting regular compliments, cuddles and PDAs, chance to really explore sexually with someone, a thoughtful card, taking mini vacations, showering with someone etc. A recent one is he has never had an actual date for new year's. So, daters of Reddit, and particularly those of you who have been more on the single side than not, what little relationship things have really made you smile? Those easy, simple gestures that show your partner cares, was thinking of you, desires you, etc. The ones that maybe you took for granted or were particularly touching.
