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 Put
the fire back in your love life!
If
a new year means just another additional 365 days to your steady
and er, boring love life, you and your guy might be heading for
a relationship stalemate.
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Tanny Chia
[eastciti.com,
January 5, 2001]
>> Different stages of a relationship
>> Fan the flames of love!
The
weekend is round and your colleagues start drawing up exciting plans
with their guy.
You
find yourself looking forward more to sleeping in late than meeting
up with your boyfriend of 5 years.
What's
wrong with you? You're most probably suffering from relationship
burnout.
Keeping
a relationship going is quite like running the marathon, except
that in love, you try to run on forever with no respite at the end
of 42km.
And
like the Olympic athlete who overdoses on his training and reaches
a plateau, a long-term relationship is just as susceptible to fizzle
out after a while.
Contrary
to the fairy tales we're fed where boy meets girl and they "live
happily ever after", in real life, the happily ever after comes
with much hard work.
Relationship
expert Elaine Watson says, "It's not just about that rose... it's
about watering that rose and keeping it fresh."
If you have been in a long-term relationship, you know exactly what
she means.
When
the chocolates and roses part is over and done with, and a couple
has learnt all they can learn about each other, nothing about the
other seems to excite anymore.
While
the mere discovery that he sings off-key and sleeps with his mouth
open brought a smile to your face 2 years ago, you now yawn and
space out when he launches for the umpteenth time into a discussion
on the newest IT gadgets.
It comes as no surprise that relationship experts say that a relationship,
like marriage, goes through fixed stages.
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