Growing love & affection through trust, passion, intimacy & commitment

Developing Life long commitment in love that starts by matter of chance is a step by step affair and one cannot expect a fast forward or magic as it takes trust, passion, Intimacy and long term commitment to achieve a successful & blessed love life.

PSYCHOLOGY

Deepak Bhatia (Counseling Psychologist)

9/30/20242 min read

Developing Life Long love relationship based on trust, passion, intimacy & commitment

For love to endure life long there must be some degree of trust to start with between a couple which is the very basic foundation of any strong relationship.

Developing trust is not possible overnight

It takes days and in some cases years to build trustworthiness and still there are trust issues due to which both the partners my not be comfortable to have a long term commitment in their relationship. This feeling of lack of long term commitment may also cause lot of challenges in their individual life since due to this factor they may not be able to enjoy sharing openly their feelings and emotions.

Trust cannot be developed instantly

Trust is something that cannot be brewed up or gained instantly it can grow and spread amongst the partners in its own natural course.

Little acts of kindness nurtures trust

With each passing day little acts of care and thoughtfulness may indirectly promote trust. This may continue for long till there is a chance to practically prove this in a real life situation. Once trust is build up the tendency of acceptance in any relationship starts getting stronger with each passing day.

Not everyone gets opportunity to prove their love

Some couples may be unlucky for not getting an opportunity to be able to practically prove their commitment for love. While others may be lucky enough to get a quick chance to prove their words which they use to reflect the seriousness of their promises to their love partners and take trust to the next level of acceptance where both the partners now start feeling acceptability towards each other.

Achieving sense of commitment

This feeling of acceptability gives way to the sense of commitment & ultimately develops belongingness between the couple as they now starts feeling the reflection of pain and joy in their partners eyes.

Sharing common dreams & aspirations

It takes lot of efforts in the life of the couple to share a common dream and aspiration.

Importance of belongingness

Once belongingness is attained amongst the partners the meaning of whole world seems to be now on a very different note as now they exist as a single entity and the challenges, struggles , apprehensions and dreams that they earlier had as individuals are now aligned to both of them. It is like a common trip in the journey of life which begins with sense of belongingness amongst the couple.

Attaining stability in their common dreams of life

The next stage is effort for attaining stability in their common chase of goals and dreams of life

In order to gain stability and progress together now the lovers try having genuine and honest communication which is simply not influenced & dismayed with feelings of living and dying for each other and rather now they are more concerned with practical and real life problems like health, exercising, monetary Issues, upskilling, insurances, savings etc.

In order to commonly and jointly achieve this stability in their common journey of life now the couple starts placing a serious effort In that direction.

Role of passion, intimacy and commitment

It can be seen that in the effort to develop life long love relationship commitment broadly three important aspects that are involved are passion, intimacy and commitment.

Blessed couples

Those who are able to navigate through these there milestones In their journey of finding life long love are blessed couples who are certainly going to achieve life long love relationship commitment in their lives.