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Dee Shields
@iamdeeshields · 5:00

Passion is only 20% of the life of the relationship! Do you agree?

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You're not in your head. You're just really into it and enjoying the moment that only lasts about four months into knowing someone, six months into knowing someone. And after that, everything you do is based on the personality of who you are in order for that relationship to continue on, especially if it continues on into years. So if in those two people. One of those persons is toxic in nature to where they only thrive off of passion and romance. And they only. You know

People long for passion and romance, what do you do when it is only 20% of the relationship?!

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:52

@iamdeeshields

And passion is a state of being, and it's not just expressed through one modality. So when I think about those stats, I'm wondering what people are thinking about, like the act of love making. Are they thinking about how they move through life? You can be passionate about how you set the table. You could have a romance that is so fully lived. I'm feeling passion, life, relationship I've had that are long and true
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Dee Shields
@iamdeeshields · 1:15
And if we want passion to be something that continues on past what they say, statistically the life of relationship is only four to six months of passion, well, what are we going to do with the free will that we've been given in life to make sure that that doesn't happen?
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Swell Team
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@Luchianna
Eluchianna Olive
@Luchianna · 3:39
I know some women who are not very passionate who have said that they're not romantic. Some men are. And so it's whatever you bring to the table, as long as you're bringing yourself, you're good. I could be passionate about the conversation. I could be passionate about something I want to do. And the partner, my partner just can care less
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Greg Hislop
@TheCribPod · 2:31
Now, I'm not a person that's in any of these. After I talk to older folks that have been married for 50 years, and so I go to them. I don't go, really to folks that have been married for seven years or the seven year itch or ten years. I go for the married folks that hit the goal. And that's what they say
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Dee Shields
@iamdeeshields · 0:29

@Ajoi

You are so welcome. And I love reading those articles like that, that one passion is only 20% of the life of the relationship and different ones that I come across on Medium or Apple News, the Washington Post, wherever I see. And I like to kind of pitch the narrative a little bit and get different perspectives. So I really love that you guys showed up to share, and thank you for that. And thank you for continuing to show up
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