The Honeymoon Stage

Falling in Love is an experience that has been written about all throughout history and everyone who has had the experience will always remember it with a smile. Some might even hop from one relationship to the next just to get the thrill of the honeymoon stage back - only to find that with every new partner it eventually fades away. Why is that?

The honeymoon stage, also called honeymoon period, is when the relationship is happy and stable. The emphasis is on the couple's 'sameness'. They do everything together. The challenges are being able to separate enough from their family and developing the expression of their positive emotions, love and sexuality.

The honeymoon stage is where we fall in love. It is the time when you cannot stop thinking about the other person, you want to spend all the time together, you share this intense connection with 'your soul mate', you talk about him or her to all your friends, you neglect your friends and family to be with your loved one, you can stay up all night and still have energy the next day, you live with not much food, you are totally attracted to one another with usually high sexual arousal, you find yourself daydreaming about a future together and some even visualize the wedding.

This craziness is fuelled by hormones. Biologically it is linked with the time needed for a couple to procreate and conceive a child. Thus it also makes sense why we find ourselves in the patterns mentioned in the previous paragraph, with heightened attraction and intensified sexual desire.