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This is a little easier to answer than it first appears. If you are losing yourself, you are not falling in love. You are either in the throes of infatuation, or, if this is a long-term pattern in relationships, there may be a tendency toward co-dependence. If you are infatuated, welcome to the club; virtually everyone goes through it in the first stanges of a relationship. Infatuation can last anywhere from a few months to as long as 3-5 years; rarely it can last 7 years. If you have a tendency toward co-dependence, then you might want to consider heavy-duty help. Intensity of co-dependence varies a great deal, and I'm not suggesting that it is always an extremely serious mental health issue. But it IS a persistent issue and takes some motivated effort to overcome. You aren't loving someone else if you find yourself defining your existence around the other person. You might think of that approach as serving your own need to be needed as much more important than the two persons involved. A deeper love that includes a willing commitment to partner with another, even when the going gets tough, involves two people who have a clear and healthy sense of their own identity and the free choices that they make.

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How do you make my schoolmate fall in love with you?

It's important to be yourself and treat your schoolmate with kindness and respect. Building a friendship and getting to know them better can help create a connection over time. However, you can't force someone to fall in love with you, so it's important to focus on being genuine and letting things develop naturally.


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Aphrodite sent Eros to Psyche because Psyche's beauty was threatening to overshadow hers, causing jealousy and anger. Eros was tasked to make Psyche fall in love with something hideous, but he ended up falling in love with her instead.


Why is learning that love is respect important?

Answer You cannot truly love if you have no respect for yourself or for others. You cannot possibly love someone whom you do not respect. If someone thinks that they can, they are fooling themselves. If you are in a relationship and there is no respect for each other, I do not believe that true love exists in that relationship. So...learning that love is respect is important because love or any kind of relationship cannot survive if respect is not present on both sides.


Under what circumstances does Pygmalion fall in love?

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