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Time Out In Love

The Importance Of Spending Time Apart

 

Smothering In Love RelationshipsWhen you are in a relationship, it is a good idea to spend time apart from one another. While it can be tempting to spend every waking moment with your love, this is typically a recipe for disaster. It does work for certain people, but this is something you may want to stay away from.

Having a separate identity from your partner is essential if you want to have a lasting relationship. How can you ever truly love the one you are with if you have never taken the time to establish who you are and learn to love yourself? Sure, you may know who you are as part of a unit, but do you have an individual identity?

Feeling smothered is not something that many people take lightly. While you may love your partner and enjoy their company, sometimes it helps to get away from them for a bit. Spending far too much time together will give you the chance to nitpick about trivial aspects of their personality and loathe them.

The old adage about absence making the heart grow fonder is true. If you are with someone and there are breaks between the times that you see them, you will yearn for them and look forward to the time that you will see them again. Being with them daily means that you will never have the opportunity to miss them. It also means that you will not have great stories to share with one another since you have experienced the same things.

Even if you love your partner with every ounce of your being, it is still important to take time away from the relationship and focus on yourself. This will help you value and treasure the relationship instead of viewing it as a nuisance.