3 Essentials for Staying in Love
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1. Try to keep seeing the person with new eyes
- Be mindful when you are projecting your feelings onto a partner—like being critical of them when, in reality, it’s your own self-critic that beats you up and is now beating on them.
- Seeing the person with new eyes can help one to be a better listener and to appreciate that everything about that person is special.
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2. Being in love means practicing intimacy
- Intimacy has been described as “into-me-see”.
- Intimacy means listening fully to someone’s heart and deepest feelings and sharing your heart and deepest feelings.
- Intimacy means trying to listen and understand when someone is hurt, and working through conflict with each other in ways that honor and respect the relationship.
- Intimacy means hanging in there and building mutual trust, safety, and heart-to-heart resonance.
- Intimacy means having self-awareness and decreased defensiveness.
- Intimacy does not seek to harm, punish, blame, attack, condemn, or criticize. It is therapeutic.
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3. Being in love means keeping the adventure alive
- Working together to give to and uplift others is an important form of being in love.
- Many couples have children and grandchildren and tend to see the fruits of their love as something larger than themselves.
- Being in love means a loss of selfishness, pride, and ego. It seeks to make the world a little better and brighter for others.
- Being in love is humble and, temporally, exists in the right here, right now.
- Being in love is a state of mind that can include a specific beloved or become a state of living you can adopt in every moment.
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