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How do you distinguish being "in love" vs. "the fog"???

28K views 84 replies 38 participants last post by  lifeistooshort  
no difference, both are AKA limerance. I love the weightless feeling of being in the fog, but the fog of a new appropriate relationship. I hated my ex W being in the fog from her affairs.
 
I personally don't believe coming out of the fog is just about withdrawl, sure when you come out of that there is an emptiness that surely is like chemical withdrawl, but if we are talking about affair fog, coming out of the fog means realizing the consequences of your behavior.

It is one thing to be hungover the morning after a good party, is a completely different problem when you wake up hungover, evicted, unemployed and without clean clothes and the only thing you want to do is drink some more to escape the misery of the wretch you've become.
 
I personally believe a MLC can happen for some in their 20's - it may not just be the transition between number of years ahead vs behind, rather the amount of life left ahead vs behind. To me each year seems to be going faster than the last exponentially, and so my perception is that I'm running out of years very quickly, plus I don't have a whole lot of longevity based on my family history, I think I started feeling the transition a year or so after my 30th. And it was going ok, but divorce sure has made it feel like more of a crisis.
 
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