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How to Know You’re Falling in Love
Signs you shouldn’t ignore.
Love doesn’t come when you want it. It hits you when you least expect it, with someone you’d probably never imagined.
What they say is true: when you know, you know. One day you look at your person and you realize you feel something different, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. It’s a flower meant to bloom.
How to Know You’re Falling in Love
It might happen with the person you’re dating, with your best friend, with someone you’ve only ever face-timed.
While it’s a feeling you’ll recognize despite not having felt it before, here are some signs you’re falling in love.
1. You feel like you’re flying
Colors seem brighter, the world feels more hopeful, and the impossible becomes possible. I’ve heard lots of friends say they don’t want to be in a relationship because they don’t want to be “tied down.”
But the right relationship doesn’t feel like a trap. It sets you free.
“When you first fall in love, dopamine, the feel-good brain chemical associated with reward, is especially active. ‘That is a mood intensifier, so people feel…