What Falling In Love Could Feel Like

February 23, 2025 • Love • Life ⌇ Connect ↗

I’m admittedly a sensitive human. Not in the uncontrollable sense, but more in the way that I feel every emotion deeply and can sense the feelings of people I care about by just looking at them. It’s a blessing and a curse, and mostly the latter because it’s often overwhelming to feel so much. But this article isn’t about a curse. This article is about the blessing in sensitivity and how to identify the cues in body, mind and soul that led me to understand love on a whole other level recently. My hope is that this list can be a guide for when you can’t think straight due to the overwhelm of emotions you might be feeling towards yourself and the other person in front of you. So if emotional clarity is what you seek, read on. ↓

Falling in love could feel like…

• Calming Presence → Being in their presence feels like the eye of a storm–their proximity provides an unwavering sense of calm, steadiness, and safety. When they’re gone, the winds rise again, leaving you restless, as if a part of your balance has slipped away.
• Magnetic Attraction → You find it impossible to resist their physical touch and the connection of your words, drawn to them like a magnet that pulls you towards one another without the ability to resist.
• Olfactory Memory → Their scent lingers like a favorite melody–woven into your senses, resurfacing with every breath, pulling you back into their presence even when they’re not there.
• Instinctive Bonding → You are proactive like roots instinctively reaching for water–like a tree’s roots, love doesn’t hesitate, strategise, or play games—it simply grows toward what nourishes it, drawn by something deeper than rational thought. It’s not about calculation, but about an undeniable pull toward what sustains and completes you.
• Eternal Present → When you’re together, time seems to stand still. Hours pass like minutes, yet each moment feels rich and full, as if you’re living in an eternal present.
• Ego-less Communication → You communicate without ego–when they bruise your pride, you don’t feel the need to strike back. Instead, you give them the benefit of the doubt, choosing understanding over retaliation, always moving the conversation to new heights, rather than the inevitable dissolution in in endless despairing fights.
• Harmonious Resilience → Every point of friction or disagreement dissolves just as quickly as it arises, leaving no lingering tension—only a shared understanding on the basis of harmony that brings you even closer together.
• Physical Synchronicity → Your bodies fit together like molten gold filling the grooves of an ancient mold–deep love is seamless, inevitable, complete. Every touch feels like your souls merging, and every hug feels like your heads were always meant to rest in each other’s arms, in the most perfect way imaginable.
• Emotional > Physical Attraction → The attraction you feel towards one another is a lot more emotional than it is physical, making you put horniness aside for the sake of building a deeper bond with one another.
• Fluid Intimacy → Sex feels like two rivers merging into one–each movement flows effortlessly, as if the other person knows exactly how to navigate the riverbeds of your desires. In that type of vulnerability, you can reveal the depths of your soul without fear, creating a beautiful current of intimacy and connection.
• Breathtaking Lips → Their kiss is like a deep breath after being underwater—filling your lungs, awakening your heart, and lifting you weightlessly into a world where nothing else exists.
• Shared Inner World → Gazing into their eyes feels like stepping through a doorway into their soul, a place only you are truly built to understand—it’s a sense of belonging that feels like coming home.
• Emotional Mirroring → You feel their joys and sorrows as if they were your own. Their happiness lights you up from within, and their pain resonates deeply in your heart.
• Obsessive Thoughts → They occupy your mind so much, it’s almost unsettling like a melody you can’t turn off, making you wonder if you’ll ever get your mind back–non-stop thoughts like this are equally enjoyable as they make your hearts grow fonder.
• Pervasive Reminders and Associations → Everything around you becomes a reminder of them–places, objects, even fleeting moments seem to carry traces of their presence, pulling them back into your mind over and over again.
• Intuitive Attentiveness → Without feeling like any effort, you find yourself constantly brainstorming thoughtful gifts and experiences, eager to sprinkle joy into their day and create moments that show just how much you care.
• Prioritised Devotion → Their needs and happiness become as important as your own, not out of obligation, but from a genuine desire to see them thrive in the most selflessly devoted way possible.
• Shared Silence → You are comfortable in quietude, where silence between you isn’t awkward, but a peaceful shared experience, making you enjoy sitting together without speaking, feeling completely at ease and connected.
• Unspoken Communication → You often find yourselves finishing each other’s sentences or knowing what the other is thinking without a word being spoken, showing a deep understanding that transcends even the need for verbal communication.
• Authentic Self → You can be authentically yourself—laughing, living, and engaging with the world in the way you were always meant to, free from pretence, imitation or limitation.
• Shared Vision → Being with them feels like stepping onto the path you were meant to walk, guided by a compass pointing you toward the life you’ve always wanted and dream of having at night.
• Endearing Imperfections → You find it natural to overlook traits and appearances that might normally bother you, as their imperfections transform into endearing qualities that make them perfect in your eyes.
• Subconscious Respect → You deeply respect the way they choose to live their life with an unrelenting energy that pours into every corner of their life and lifts you up to become the best version of yourself.
• Radiant Togetherness → Life never felt this good with an unparalleled vibrancy and fulfillment when you’re with them—being together feels like the happiest version of your existence, coloring each moment with joy and warmth.
• Soulful Completion → They are the missing puzzle piece to your heart, completing a picture you never realised was incomplete. Without them, everything feels disjointed and hollow, like a beautiful artwork lacking its final touch.
• Cosmic Connection → The thought of being with anyone else feels impossible, as being with each other reveals a once-in-a-lifetime connection you’ve always longed for. It feels so perfectly aligned, it’s as if the universe conspired to bring you together.

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My hope is that this article helps you realise what you have in the person you feel so much for. If most or even all of the above bullets are true, don’t throw it away and don’t distance yourself from that one person who has all of that and more for you. You won’t want to miss out on experiencing love as it was intended in the context of a once in a lifetime connection… So if you think you might have that kind of love based on the above, don’t brush away its gravitas, or you’ll forever regret not following your heart where it wants to go. After all, we all deserve that rare sensation only a soulmate can provide to finally feel earthly completion.

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Hearts & Pieces

Raw nerves, exposed hearts,
Time bends, reality parts.

Laughter chimes, tears fall free,
Walls crumble, souls agree.

Words unneeded, eyes convey,
Home, just another touch away.

Regret lurks in silence kept,
Missed chances, hearts can’t forget.

Feel deeply, act boldly,
For time marches, coldly.

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