Sentences with phrase «when infatuation»

A dating drought is often noticed when infatuation converts into long - term commitment.

Not exact matches

Kenna's infatuation with music began with his love of Michael Jackson but was cemented when he heard the U2's Joshua Tree album.

I started using The Infatuation religiously when I moved to New York City last year, since it basically acts like the cool friend who always knows the best places to eat and drink.

While infatuation ceases as soon as the chemicals subside, true love endures even when you don't feel like it.

When I fall in love with the girl whom I propose to ask to be my wife, how do I know it is the real thing and not just one more of that extended series of infatuations that has marked my autobiography?

There is poor hope for the world if the newly arisen peoples share the infatuations and make the mistakes which characterized the European states at the period when they were at the same stage of development — the same stage of political consciousness.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

When I made these 3 batches of almond butter my original infatuation was reignited and that will most definitely be my breakfast come the first day of school.

«You have to be in control,» he'd say when I was in the throes of a teen infatuation.

Nelson says Luyendyk is in what she calls the «infatuation» stage of romance, when everything is new and exciting (a word this bachelor can't seem to get enough of).

My copper infatuation is still in full swing so when I was looking for plant stands for the studio and came up empty handed, I took matters into my own hands.

Infatuation is also known as the honeymoon period and it is when this blissful adoration starts to wane that the real work of love begins to build a lasting relationship5.

When it comes to loving someone, the passion you feel for them can vacillate from sheer infatuation to near nonexistence in an instant.

When in an infatuation state the rest of the world tends to disappear and is narrowed to the scope of this one seemingly perfect person1.

READERS: Have you ever confused infatuation with love when dating?

For how can you know for sure when you're in love - real love - as opposed to feeling lust or infatuation?

I get it, when you meet that person who blows you away you get excited, especially if you're dating life has been boring and unfruitful until then, but you have to date smart and avoid infatuation in dating.

«Infatuation is when you find somebody absolutely perfect.

When you combine the fire of passionate infatuation and the bonds of commitment but don't intimately like who the other person is, you get fatuous love.

If one could bottle the starting infatuation and ecstasy that is experienced when starting a fresh liaison and retail it, then somebody would be an awfully affluent person.

Know that the initial infatuation stage is exciting and fun, but finding someone new when you aren't ready isn't always the answer.

Infatuation often occurs when you are caught up in the excitement of meeting a person you like, but the feelings often lack longevity.

So after being monogamous with one person for a few months, when the initial infatuation begins to fade (perhaps he or she detects some fatal flaw), the compulsive itch to return to the hunt comes back.

In any case, when we do feel instantly that someone is a good fit we usually call this chemistry, infatuation or love at first sight.

Though wealthy from the money that he has culled via loan - sharking, Geremia is a thoroughly miserable wretch, driven into the throes of destruction by his own incredible selfishness and his obsessive infatuation with a beautiful local girl, Rosalba (Laura Chiatta), whom he meets when asked to assist with her wedding.

It's a good date movie, especially when the relationship has entered that limbo between infatuation and deep discussion.

When anybody feels a connection with another human being, there is always that rush of infatuation but also a sense of hesitancy, questioning whether or not the feelings are mutual.

Afterwards, when the feelings of infatuation were long gone, they had tried to resuscitate the friendship, but it had never been the same.

I would only differentiate between infatuation gameplay and commitment gameplay when describing gameplay fluctuation.

Howard Hodgkin's lifelong infatuation with India began when he was a schoolboy.

Andy Warhol's lifelong infatuation with fame is traced from the earliest movie star scrapbook he started when he was a young boy to a Frank Sinatra biography that was on his bedside table when he died in 1987.

When viewing the work as a whole, a visual space is created where mid-last-century consumer Americana collides with present day infatuation for nostalgia in all of its false hope for the future while at the same time paying homage to the past.

Continuing his infatuation with funerary iconography and the concept of the look - alike, Cattelan's new work is a mysterious, double self - portrait which, when installed in the former slaughterhouse space, takes on an even more disturbing character.

When I arrive at her studio, high in an old factory warehouse overlooking Manhattan, the ebullient Pozanti shuffles in with a leather sack spilling open with books — Race Against the Machine, How to Create a Mind among them — telling of the newfound infatuations laced within her paintings.

Over the past decade, Loeb has tunneled into learning about high - tech photography and hardcore astronomy to support his boyhood infatuation with space, just as he did when he taught himself how to paint.

For me, the jury's still out on what happens when this initial infatuation wears off.

If you look back at the start of your relationship, its likely those issues have been around — in some form — from the very start, but when you were in the infatuation stage with your spouse, they were easier to ignore.

There are many reasons for this.If we were to continue in the infatuation and passionate stage of love for too long we would wear ourselves out, be unable to focus, and neglect our friends, family, jobs, and hobbies — just to spend every waking moment entangled with the focus of our affection.Think back to when you were in the beginning stages of your relationship.

When facing love addiction, it is important to understand the difference between the normal emotions involved in healthy romantic relationships and the self - destructive effects of unrealistic infatuation or obsession.

This may sound silly when you're intoxicated with the elixir of infatuation.

Whenever your spouse / partner consumes most of your focus / energy (this frequently occurs during the infatuation stage of early love), you have little left over for your friends, family, interests, hobbies, work / career, etc; and inversely, when couples are too disconnected, you become vulnerable to outside influences and the danger of getting your intimacy needs met outside the relationship is heightened.

First of all, I'm convinced that far too many couples tie the knot when they are still in the infatuation stage of their relationship, a time when hormones run amok and lust looms large.

And then, when the real world happens - the inevitable passing of the infatuation stage - trouble begins to brew.

Stephanie Cook, LCSW, explains what happens in healthy and not - so - healthy relationships after the infatuation stage of «falling in love», when healthy relationships shed fake closeness for authentic intimacy.