18 | February 2012 | woman this month Wellbeing Love comes in different shapes, forms, timeframes and quantities. If yours is the deep and powerful kind — the sort that you know will last a lifetime — lucky you, but that isn’t to say that there aren’t other, just as valuable, perhaps more practical and realistic forms of the emotion. Take our quiz to find out which category your relationship falls into… Love Quiz The When you first met each other… A. Your meeting was the one all the songs were written about. You locked eyes across a crowded room and something clicked. Your first conversation had you enthralled and you knew almost immediately that you wanted this person in your life for some time to come. B. You met him with a group of other people. You thought he was charming and interesting, but it wasn’t spellbinding. There weren’t fireworks, exactly, but you found you had a lot in common. He made you laugh, you liked the way it felt to be around him and you decided to give it a shot to find out if there was the potential for something more. C. Either you, one of your friends or members of your family had known him for a while. He hadn’t really presented himself as a possibility, but over time and with some encouragement from those who had known him for longer, you found yourself giving him a chance. The decision to get together wasn’t exactly yours, nor was it instantaneous, but you trusted the judgement of those close to you. In those first few months… A. The initial phase of your relationship feels like a blur. It was a heady rush of laughter, lust and unimaginable closeness. You realised you had never felt this way about anyone before and you couldn’t bring yourself to be parted from him for any significant length of time. B. Days passed and then weeks. You saw each other quite regularly and what started off as intrigue seemed to become something deeper. You began to feel drawn to him in a stronger way than you had predicted. There were ups and downs — some days saw you second guessing yourself and wondering if it was really right, but the other days gave you the confidence to pursue it. C. Knowing that you had been given good advice, you tried hard to give him a fair chance. Over the course of some months you realised that he was a kind, helpful and attentive person, who looked out for your interests and treated you with respect. You became very fond of him, even if you knew it was probably never going to be the stuff of fairy tales. The Beginnings The Honeymoon Period
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