8 “If You Fall Out of Love, You Should Get Divorced”
“This is one of the worst things I hear from people over and over again,” says Irina Baechle, LCSW, a relationship therapist and coach. “The truth is, falling in love is merely a nature trick pulling humans into marriage to reproduce. The trick always goes away because ‘falling in love’ is temporary. However, it does not mean that we stop loving the other person, it’s just the ecstatic lovingness that characterizes the experience that goes away. And that’s usually when the real love starts to begin.”
