Betsy Guerra explains why relationships often end after infatuation fades. Research shows infatuation lasts two months to two years, and many couples split when that high wears off. Real love requires active work to keep the spark alive.
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Two months to two years.
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Want to share something about that. When the research shows that when you fall in love, your infatuation, that, like, passion and that thing that keeps you awake even though you should be sleeping, and you know, you, you're not even hungry, so you give your food to your person and you do anything for them. That, that experience of infatuation lasts from two months to two years. That's why many relationships don't last that long. In fact, I was a, I was the first, your first relationship that made it to the two years. So research shows that. But after that, you get to work on it. And maybe that's a podcast for another day, but you get to work on creating the spark. And just so now it's not going to be like butterflies that are, like, natural. Because, by the way, being in love and infatuated is the equivalent of being high or drunk.