Okay, I’m about to do some Carrie Bradshaw-type investigative reporting here. You know that happy, butterflies-in-your-stomach excitement at the beginning of a relationship where everything your partner does is amazing and awe-inspiring? And then as relationships get older, love for one another grows, but so does mundaneness? Those initial feelings of awe and thankfulness that we felt from the beginning are slowly replaced with expectations and routine. We might even, Carrie Bradshaw forbid, start to take our partner and all their amazing qualities for granted.



But maybe those butterflies-in-your-stomach feelings of amazement and awe is not purely a product of newness. Maybe it’s simply a product of gratitude. This self-help buzzword may not sound totally profound– I mean, Oprah has had everyone journaling their gratitude for years. But it can be life changing for your relationship. Gratitude happens to be easier when a relationship is new and you notice everything more, but that doesn’t mean you can’t feel it just as strongly years, or even decades later, if you work at it. And maybe, those butterflies-in-your-stomach excitement and awe might just last a lifetime.

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