Love never fails. I Corinthians 13:8
A national magazine devoted its Valentine's Day issue to the subject of love. It reported on the results of a study done in a university research setting that revealed that the hormones that produce the warm sensation of being "in love" eventually lose their potency and wear out. Therefore higher and higher levels of the same hormone are required to produce the same feelings of exhilaration, dreaminess, and infatuation.
Their conclusion: It will take something other than high-voltage body chemistry to keep a couple together for a lifetime. The radioactive hormones that produce a "romantic high" just can't be sustained.
But where infatuation ends, real love begins. Let us encourage you to seek out an older couple you both know well who have a love relationship. Meet with them, ask them questions, and observe their behavior. You may not see the same dreamy-eyed emotions displayed that infatuation brings, but what you will observe is deep respect, a strong sense of attraction, and a deep satisfaction and joy just being together. Real love is just as exhilarating, if not more so, than adolescent hormone rushes. So be encouraged. Just because the infatuation stage may have ended, you haven't fallen out of love. Something far more precious, beautiful, and long lasting can take its place. It's called real love.
Today's Marriage Minute comes entirely from the book Marriage Minutes by Dr. Bob and Cheryl Moeller.
1 comment:
For Love to grow and nourish forever, there are certain important behaviors that all of us should learn NOT TO DO and infatuation teaches us what NOT to do for love to grow BUT these lessons we learn when infatuation ends are VERY PAINFUL. Anyway, there is no GAIN without PAIN.
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