Stages of a Relationship

1) Love is in the Air
The romance stage or the courtship or fantasy stage. Every relationship will essentially start out with this one. This stage is all about the time when those love songs start making sense. The need to be with the other, spend all that time together dating, doing all that corny stuff and loving it too! Staring into each other's eyes and living on love. What's the reality of this stage then? The foremost need here is to please the other, and you're on your best behavior 'coz of that. Nothing the other does is considered wrong and differences are often ignored. This stage works on a superficial level because what you are in this stage is not the entire picture. The layer of love has to melt before you even start making sense of the true nature of the relationship. But that comes in the later stages. In this stage of love, you're just head over heels and sickeningly in 'love'.
2) A Mere Human? You?!
This one's the reality stage. The 'Let's-show-you-what-he/she-is-really-like' stage. So that thing you liked about him cricking his neck, suddenly starts to get annoying or the 'Aww... look how long she takes in the bath' starts to get to you. The romance is taking a nap to let the reality set in. And now you know that the other is a mere human-complete with flaws, baggage, insecurities and bad habits. Welcome home relationship issues. This stage is like a bubble bursting for most 'coz they've just been and known the high that comes from the romance stage and to suddenly be faced with reality like this, can get tough.
3) I Could Kill You!
In this stage, the differences begin to not only show, but fester into a constant power struggle. In this, the differences start making way into fights and arguments and resolving them becomes difficult. It is in this stage that many couples call it quits because there is so much bitterness involved. However, there are couples who get through this stage as well with honest communication and tremendous patience.
4) You Aren't That Bad
So much struggle happening in the stage preceding this one, there is bound to be a feeling of being physically and emotionally strung out. So what does one do? One begins to re-evaluate their relationship, if they are still together that is, and many of them realize that what they thought to be really unbearable in the other is not really that bad at all. In this stage the couple usually relies on the familiarity that they've built with the other and try making it work into a healthy relationship. They understand that their differences aren't as deep as they were made out to be, and that adjusting with the other and being happy is possible.
5) The Real Thing, At Last
Going through ALL those stages to reach this stage, is no easy task. All those struggles and fights don't disappear of course, but they don't take you to the make or break stage either. You accept your partner completely and that is how you get ready to experience the true feeling of love. Not a disillusioned, romance novel kind of love, but that of acceptance and mutual respect.
Since it's a relationship, there will be fights and squabbles - even if you've crossed all the stages of a relationship! But there will also be those moments of sharing and so much caring and the memories that you make along the way that should help you get through it all. That is what the stages of a healthy relationship should stall with - You fight, you break up. You kiss, you make up. Simple but for all of us is hard.
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Comments (7)

You've got it down pat there pal,why should you have any difficulty?cheers
why i have problems with finding hmm i not know. easy i not get frist i read profile and i write little about me then i ask to look my profile and if this woman have questions or wish to know me.
in first mail to woman i not exchange mail adress jsut i wish here communicate some time then we can exchange. but since now 0 answers. maybe becaus i choose only from europe women but true is like this for me is easy travel inside europe then other country in asia or USA or other.
@10kohms : based on your experienced ? rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing
@ Lukasz : have seen your profile.. Your profile is good. Keep searching ...comfort
@narnia

never been and not too keen to marry myself...

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@narnia

and... unless one lives in a utopia, I believe, what I say would be everyone else's experience too ...
not besa on my experaince but is all my observation all relationships like in bus on inside subway i can see this
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