Why does someone finds it hard to believe you can be faithful without ever falling in love?

[Anonymous]

Well I might not be madly in love with him but these are my feelings towards him after all these years together:

- Admiration

- Appreciation

- Devotion

- Respect

- Empathy (the feeling that you can't fail them, be grateful for all the effort they did)

- Companionate love

I've never cheated on him, even though it's unlikely I'll ever be infatuated with him. Our daughter, our little twin boys and him are my greatest happiness. I'm happy without ever feeling those fireworks. The only people that knew I wasn't madly in love with him were my parents and my younger sister. My father didn't care and even said love is overrated, that what matters if I'm happy and don't cheat.

My younger sister finds it hard to believe that one can be faithful without ever feeling those fireworks, without ever falling in love. Why is that so hard to believe?

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14 d

I don't need to feel deep passionate love in order to be faithful. I might not be in love but he sure solved my life, saved my fertile years and I got him on time. I'm living a happy life.

I think this is better than letting yourself guide by infatuation and living a miserable life and/or bringing children to poverty, to a poor quality of life.

[Nikki1989]

Some are so bitter and twisted over their relationship failures, they want everyone to have the same experience. It is a mental illness.

[Anonymous]

Private to me

[Asker]

okay