Hi Vineeto,
Thank you for your considered response. You do know me well so those warnings are much appreciated.
So if it happens I could fall in love again, albeit in lesser intensity perhaps. I’m okay with it — gives me yet another opportunity to look into it, but by then I’d be more prepared so it is all good.
I’ve indeed fallen in love before a handful of times, but since the women would always run for the hills, one way or another, right after my proposing … the feelings would subside soon after. What I experienced back towards end of Nov/ beginning of Dec was special in that she stuck to me, and I got to go through the full rollercoaster of emotions.
I should highlight that I have never written about those experiences in detail here in public. Nor have I written about the full exploration into the ‘resurgences’ of these feelings (Jan 10-20) except the feelings mentioned in the ‘Intimacy’ thread. I’m not sure why you characterize my experiences as “the beginnings of falling in love”. Based on what I’ve experienced I can indeed relate to everything others have written of love. I’m just not sure how comfortable I’m in sharing all of that in public (also, given my unique preferences and predilections I’m unsure if people would empathize anyway). But here’s a recent example Just feel good, bro - #2 by syd
I’ll look into this, as well as the desire (Andrew - #1428 by syd) that is sustaining it all.
Speaking of which, right after sending that last message, I discovered the value of feeling good as baseline (feeling good feels so good compared to what happened before!).
I decided to maintain the baseline of feeling good (and everything else – PCEs/rememoration/contemplation/… – can happen on the bedrock of feeling good). I’ll write about it after I get to play with it sufficiently over the next few days.