What Do When You Have Fallen Out Of Love With Your Significant Other
You promised forever but your heart is no longer in it. Perhaps you cannot pinpoint the moment you fell out of love with your significant other, or perhaps you actually can, but either way, the feelings are gone and you are torn about what to do.
It may surprise you, but romantic love in relationships can be cyclical. Yep, it’s true. Over the course of a long-term relationship, you may fall in and out of love with your partner, many times. Or you may fall out of love and are never able to get that loving, romantic feeling back.
You have some choices to make if or when you find yourself in this situation.
What To Do When You Have Fallen Out Of Love
Make An Effort To Reconnect
Sometimes we fall out of love because we sort of forget about one another. We get so busy with other things in life like work or children that we forget to nurture one of our most important relationships.
Become Friends
As I have said many times before, friendship, true friendship is the real foundation of a long-lasting, loving relationship.
Self-Reflect
You need to figure out what has changed. Has your partner changed or have you changed? Has your partner committed an unforgivable deal breaker?
Relationship Counseling
Counseling can help, especially if you have identified a cause for your change of heart but still want to work things out.
Relationships work. Some relationships are hard work. And some relationships are not worth the work.
What are your thoughts on handling a relationship when you have fallen out of love? Do you agree with my recommendations? What would you do? Please share your thoughts and experience!
“The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.” ― Sarah Gailey, The Echo Wife
