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How Passion Can Ruin Your Love Life
It’s fun but is it fulfilling?
It’s often stated that following your passion is actually bad advice when it comes to your career. The same can be true for love.
Passion is fantastic. I’d argue it’s a relationship requirement. Who wants to be with someone who’s plain old vanilla? Well, some of you. The rest of us need some spice.
The problem is, when you let chemistry be the sole deciding factor in a relationship, you’re gonna up miserable. It’s a double-edged sword.
Here’s why.
Passion makes you crazy
When you first start dating the honeymoon period is self induced insanity. Think about the last time you fell in love.
You couldn’t think of anything but spending time with that person. Eating and sleeping were for losers.
Remember all those late night conversations that lasted until the wee hours of the morning and you went to work the next day like you got a great night’s sleep?
You were high on love. It’s the equivalent of being high on cocaine.
People on drugs don’t make good decisions and neither do people in love. You’re technically out of your mind for the first few months of a relationship. So you’re pretty much…
