Learning to Trust the Kind of Love You’ve Never Experienced Before
Love in your life can come unexpectedly and in stillness. Coming slow and subtle without the usual drama that comes with falling in love, be it the ups and down and craziness that people call ‘passion.’ You’ll notice a change. Softer. Calmer. More intentional. And because it feels new a piece of you will be suspicious.
There will be suspicions about why love feels strange and why exactly something that has caused you to feel the emotions burns of anxiety: the love you have been searching for feels like a trap.
It will also be strange that you love something like closure instead of open-ended questions. All of these feelings will be strange, which will lead to questioning your getting to know someone new and the love feels strange yet that also feels right.
For years a roller coaster of emotional highs and lows was part of your life. That was your norm. In a sense you actively and subconsciously adapted to the chaos of love and the emotional chase. When what you have becomes the opposite of good for you it will have people questioning you.
It will lead people to think the calm means something that’s missing. The reality, however, is that your heart is getting used to a new routine. It is getting used to a new…
