When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.
It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted.
My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.
Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
Romantic love is an addiction.
Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.
I'm not someone who wakes up at 6 A.M. to go to the gym.
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.
I know some people who are like, 'I love fitness,' and I feel like if you have to say that, you're still in the romance stage. I'm in the stage where I've been married to it for 60 years, and I don't think I'll ever get a divorce.