To want to feel in love

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Like really in love? That excitement when you think about someone, the thought that they feel the same way about you. I never feel this way about my husband and I crave it so much!

You’re not unreasonable to want to feel like that. Do you want to leave your husband? Do you feel like you will be satisfied in a life long relationship if you don’t feel like this?

How old are you, how long have you been married, do you have children? Depending on the answers to these questions then you could consider finding this ‘true love’, it does exist.

Have you ever felt that way about him?

Married 23 years, 3 children.....2 are adults and moved out. No never felt that way about him :(

Anyone??

If you've never felt that way, I'm not sure it's possible to make yourself feel that way now. Are you hoping people will tell you that you should have an affair?

Married 23 years, 3 children.....2 are adults and moved out. No never felt that way about him :(

You can't reawaken that feeling if it was never there. Can you try and remember what made you marry him without that feeling?

Do you want to leave him and try to find that with someone else?

Is this a recent thing, or have you felt like this for a while?

I think what you are describing is the initial explosion of hormones in new relationships that gives you a high.
Biologically speaking, it’s not possible to keep the high for too long.
If you want it, you’ll have to form new relationships.

It’s a trade-off between hormonal highs and excitement with changing partners and developing deep bonds and growing together with just one.

It’s a trade-off between hormonal highs and excitement with changing partners and developing deep bonds and growing together with just one.

You can still feel "in love" with someone after several years, though. DH and I have been together for ten years and I can still get a buzz from being around him.

If you never felt it with him,why did you marry him?!

Papaya The way I read it I thought OP means being overwhelmed with emotion and excitement, which is different than e.g. listening out for the door and feeling happy that DH is finally home.
We need OP to clarify.

Are you hitting Menopause? You can suddenly feel very dissatisfied with your life.

I think it's to spur us, on to make the most of the time we have left.

As we age it's more important than ever to find our passion for life.