My STBXW was big into romance novels. I wonder how much of a role that played in her seeing love as a feeling.
Also totally recognisable. My W bases her thoughts of an ideal MR upon what she reads and watches. Hundreds of romantic novels and when she watches Netflix it's always a romantic drama.
When the butterflies are no longer there the "love is gone". Well hello sunshine, people that are several years or decades into a marriage will no longer have butterflies. Love matures and becomes deeper, richer. You will evolve into a person that will do anything for their spouse and love them for who they are, not how they make you feel.
I think a common trend in WAW's is that they want the teenage love feeling to continue into perpetuity which is not a realistic expectation of a grown up marriage.
Truthbuster.
Married 4.5, Together 6 M: 36, W: 33, no kids Separation date: 7/8/2017 Bomb dropped: 8/18/2017 Last communication: 1/8/2018 - now nothing OM confirmed - now ended (?)
