Love: how do you know you've fallen in love?

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Falling in love can be really tricky and a little weird but trust me it’s all fun when you realize it is actually what it is. Falling in love encompasses emotional bedlam, the giddiness before next meetings or dates, the feeling of invincibility and selective bias.
This article is particularly helpful to you if you’re in the middle of some casual inquiry to know whether you’re falling in love or not, if you find yourself smiling sheepishly at the other person, and all they do seem right to you, If you also find yourself being all out for this person and you just can’t help it even if it isn’t convenient for you, then this piece is definitely a must read for you and certainly help you understand that those butterflies roaming in your belly is a sign that you’ve fallen in love.

There is a little survey I carried out on my messaging app, WhatsApp, that got me intrigued. I asked this question:
How do you know you’ve fallen in love?

A screenshot from my WhatsApp

..on my story and people turned in their replies. It was an outburst of different emotions from different people. A few of the replies will be attached at the end of this article.

When you’re not sure if you’re in love, there are ten (10) ways described in this piece to guide you.

1.You can’t stop smiling
The involuntary smile you give when you get their text notifications, when you see them again and especially when you think about them. When you’ve fallen in love with someone, you think about them almost all the time and these thoughts of little and big things registered in your mind make you smile naturally.

2.You feel safe
Yes, you feel safe. Whenever you’re around them, you feel riskless and harmless, you feel like you’re covered by the supernatural. They become the yourSpider-Man and you become their superwoman or vice versa. You’ll be able to confide in them most of the things you wouldn’t tell other persons.

3.You get more curious
You want to know them more and more. You want to know what goes on through their mind every time. You want to know what their best food is and what kind of movie they prefer. Not only would you be curious but you’ll also find yourself loving their interests. Everything about them including their gestures , the way they talk and look whenever they’re going through various kinds of mood become very intriguing to you.

4.You become enterprising and invincible
You’ll definitely feel on top of the whole wide world. This feeling is really great that you feel a rush of the fight or flight hormone most of the time when it comes to their matter. You feel you can protect them at all cost but this is only natural, it’s love. You feel you can do the impossible just to make them feel okay and well.

5.You forget your eminence and priorities
When you’re truly in love, your social standard have no place. You completely forget who you are and all that matters is that you’re with the person happily. Why do you think that friend yours that recently started dating disappeared from your friendship circle? LOL, no hard feeling, it can be you too. All you need is the breeze of love to blow on you. You get to neglect your priorities most of the times to be with them. It’s very natural, you’ve fallen in love.

6.You get really attracted to all they do
The person opening the freezer to take a bottle of water, wearing socks inside of their heels, cleaning the table, eating ice cream, doing absolutely normal things in their own perspective will look magical to you. You find them even more attractive in what others think is a little weird. You find them absolutely stunning singing wrong lyrics to a song. It is not insane, it’s just that you’ve fallen in love with them.

7.You can’t stop talking to them
This is one of the primary feelings you get when you fall in love with someone. You think something is really missing from your day if you’ve not talked with them, you get addicted to talking with them without getting bored. This is why you can text them on Instagram or WhatsApp and chat for as long as forever, switching from one topic to the other without being conscious of time.

8.You daydream
This is absolutely normal. You suddenly find yourself thinking about how you’ll go on your first date? Yeah, you’ve fallen for the good thing. You’ve fallen in love. You become full of dates ideas and you also become so positive of the future among all odds.

9.You feel their pain and you feel better as a person
When you start getting increased sense of empathy towards the other person, then you sure have fallen in love with them . You become really happy when they’re happy and you’d want to alleviate their pain when they’re in one. You become selfless, you want to love them just the way they want without compulsorily caring if you love to receive love same way in return.

This makes you feel like a better person. You give them love and even sometimes extend the love to other people. Yes, you begin to share love. It may be as simple at smiling at people and make them smile back in return or tipping off the grocery store attendant after shopping.

10.You crave sex
There is a powerful sexual connection you get whenever you’re with them, it’s gets you turned on to everything they do .
Naturally, you find the person you’re in love with very charming and sexy. Their every move, act , talk and gesture becomes weirdly sexual to you. You long for the water they drink while watching it go down their esophagus from the outside. You get really attracted to how they style their hair in front of a mirror. You become completely hooked in their every turn. It’s not a disease, it’s another point that you’ve fallen in love with them.

Below are some of the screenshots I got from the survey on my WhatsApp story on the question:
“ how do you know that you’ve fallen in love?”