I know the difference - I know I love my friends, parents, kids. I know this is not "in love".
I know the feeling of feeling in love at the start of a relationship, the excitement, getting to know each other, putting your best foot forward and what not.
I just don't know whether I'm still "in love" with dh.
How is it manifested in long term relationships?
Are you still in love with your partners? Does in change over time to a love of mutual respect and... Something else?
Feeling quite fed up and not sure how to even articulate or put my finger on it, but feel like it's come down to the fact that, yes - I do love dh, but IN love? I'm just not sure.
I know it's not going to be butterflies and passion forever, but how do you all still know that you are in the relationship for the right reasons?
We get on so well, always laugh, I find it hard to imagine life without him, but is that just because our lives are so much one and the same?
Would I be sad to break up? Sure, but I know I'd also be fine.
Sorry, I'm rambling. I guess I just don't know and maybe that is an answer in itself.
Anyone else feeling the same?
Just to not drip feed - we have been together 10 years, 2 kids and own a house together.