The honeymoon stage lasts three to six months, then your conditioning and past experiences surface. That's not failure. It's where real growth happens if you treat conflicts as tools for expansion instead of problems.
Let's talk about the honeymoon stage. I find this a really interesting topic, and one of the perspectives that I actually really like about the honeymoon stage is that we are seeing the other person for who they truly are, the highest version of themselves during the honeymoon stage. And so we're so excited to spend time with them, we can't get enough of each other, and it's just amazing, and You know, it's usually within the first 3 to 6 months, I would say. And then what happens after that is both of our conditioning and both of our programming and both of our past starts to come forward, and that's totally normal. And it doesn't mean that there's anything wrong in the relationship per se, but what it does mean is that as we get to know each other and uncover and learn the layers of each other, our stuff is going to come forward and going to come up. And in conscious relationship, this is where we have the opportunity to really use it as a tool to expand and grow in partnership and also individually. And it's really a valuable perspective to take, to look at it from a perspective of expansion expansion and growth rather than something being wrong if suddenly you're experiencing bumps in the road or some conflict or whatever. And I just want to remind you that in order to make a diamond, it has to be bashed up and polished and all of it to turn into this brilliant sparkling diamond. And also, if a caterpillar is to become a butterfly, it actually, as we know, puts itself into a cocoon and bashes itself up against the walls of the cocoon in order to completely transform itself into the beauty that is the butterfly. So if you're feeling challenged, if you're missing that honeymoon stage, I would like to invite you to recognize that what you saw in your partner during the honeymoon stage is actually the highest version of themselves. It's not a fantasy, it's not an illusion, and there are deeper layers of a person that come forward the longer we're together. So I hope this helps, and I'm sending you lots of love. And if you're feeling challenged in relationship, don't hesitate to reach out and book a call with me. I'm here.
