True, mad love is a beautiful experience, maybe the most powerful and satisfying thing that can happen to you.
I have been lucky to have experienced it once and now, 8 years later we still have it in us.
Of course it doesn't manifest in endless nights of looking into each other's eyes, but we still cherish that period as a gift from God himself.
Yes it does resemble an addiction, although maybe it's worth reversing the terms - addiction is actually like "true" love.
Everything in our lives just clicked - we'd just moved to the beautiful city of Barcelona, it was spring time and flowers were in bloom, we had money, more than we could spend and we traveled around and experienced each other through Europe - Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Brussels, Stockholm, Athens, Vienna, ...
Every week in a different city, weather was always great, the food and wine were fantastic - but all that beauty around us was pale in comparison to the look in her eyes.
That look - when this beautiful girl looks at you like you are everything for her and you feel like she's everything for you - like you are the perfect drugs for each other - that is a powerful and fulfilling experience.
That's what it feels like to be blessed.
Our daughter is the result of that love and we often joke that our love was actually the effect of her coming into this world.
Drugs don't really come close to the powerful emotions that we can generate naturally when we are in love - I can only compare it to an MDMA trip that lasts for months...
That love has carried us through the difficult moments of having a child and careers in our modern, artificial society and we would have been separated many times had it not been for those memories.
I love your story. I hate that can't tell if I should wait for that or "settle" for the feeling others describe of "just well comfortable". I keep waiting for, searching for, your style of relationship but all I find, generally, is the "this is comfortable" style which while pleasant is also mostly "take it or leave it" kind of feeling for me. For lack of a better way it's nice while together but it's mostly "out sight out of mind".
I have been lucky to have experienced it once and now, 8 years later we still have it in us.
Of course it doesn't manifest in endless nights of looking into each other's eyes, but we still cherish that period as a gift from God himself.
Yes it does resemble an addiction, although maybe it's worth reversing the terms - addiction is actually like "true" love.
Everything in our lives just clicked - we'd just moved to the beautiful city of Barcelona, it was spring time and flowers were in bloom, we had money, more than we could spend and we traveled around and experienced each other through Europe - Paris, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Brussels, Stockholm, Athens, Vienna, ...
Every week in a different city, weather was always great, the food and wine were fantastic - but all that beauty around us was pale in comparison to the look in her eyes.
That look - when this beautiful girl looks at you like you are everything for her and you feel like she's everything for you - like you are the perfect drugs for each other - that is a powerful and fulfilling experience.
That's what it feels like to be blessed.
Our daughter is the result of that love and we often joke that our love was actually the effect of her coming into this world.
Drugs don't really come close to the powerful emotions that we can generate naturally when we are in love - I can only compare it to an MDMA trip that lasts for months...
That love has carried us through the difficult moments of having a child and careers in our modern, artificial society and we would have been separated many times had it not been for those memories.