Are You Really in Love or in a Relationship for Convenience? Find out with These Signs

Affection is always greater than perfection. No matter how cordial and compatible you are with someone on a platonic level, you are going to crave the first-sight-moments if that is lacking.

A true relationship needs a deeper connection on an emotional and physical level. Things are likely to melt away sans a deep interconnection.

Is it mutual feelings or shared activities?

There’s no hard and fast rule to be in a relationship.

You can go through a phase with no major love goals, where you just find yourself comfortable with someone, you like spending hours with someone without feeling any emotional arousal, you caress each other out of pleasure but don’t feel the yearning. This is possibly a convenient relationship.

How far you think you can take it? There’s going to be a ‘not-anymore moment’ after a while.

No matter how comforting a convenient relationship is, it does not have the tendency to long last.

However, it can be healthy for some people in certain situations. Comradeship can never replace love. It is never going to be your ultimate goal. No denying that it can satiate your needs on a temporary basis.

Settling down for less than you deserve

A lot of ambitious people yearn to fall for someone hard.

Yet they struggle to find their special someone. In the struggling phase, when they get tired, they look around for a convenient relationship. They want their struggle to be compensated with something comforting.

This is when they actually give up on their love goals and find a convenient escape route. However, this may also not give them what they have been groping for.

You don’t feel like growing

A conventional relationship is always going to pinch you in the back of your mind to go and search for more than you have, while love will shower you with more than you have ever asked for.

Love does all the good, that too effortlessly. Love does not let you complain about what you don’t have, in fact, it will instil you with a sense of unending satisfaction.

Romantic partner or social partner? Who is it? Decide

At times, you just want to have someone whom you can go out with, whom you can share your bills with, whom you can introduce to the world as your partner. That’s exactly what we call a convenient relationship.

For all the social reasons, you choose to accept someone in your life with open arms and try to adjust. This may relieve you of all the apparent worries, but this could keep the yearning alive and more active in you.

A convenient relationship is given birth for all the materialistic reasons in general.

When a partner is too short of something so basic, they initiate a convenient relationship. Nevertheless, the emptiness still goes on with the flow. People in a convenient relationship can’t get rid of the hollowness that ascertains the existence of more problems.

What spell love casts

Love, on the other hand, guarantees detoxification of soul and heart.

You get the sense of intimacy every which way. You start liking oneself even more if you have come across the right one. You not only come to love your partner, but you also fall in love with yourself all over again.

Every minute of attention span means the world to you. Every inch of your partner sounds divine to you.

The true feelings arouse within no time. You adorn the glimpse of your partner all the more. In fact, you celebrate each other’s presence on earth.

You truly embrace each other’s attributes and empathize one another’s shortcomings and weaknesses instead of staring down on them. There’s optimism in the air and lively hopes.

All should be perfect in paradise

You no longer belong to two different worlds when in love.

Both the worlds merge and become one paradise. But, you also need to keep your paradise realistic. Love is no poetry. It is true to all intents and purposes. If it can be dreamt, it can be done, as we know.

True love also goes through rough patches, but the sense of integration remains.

This magnetic connection cannot fulfil the material needs of a couple. Surely, a lot more needs to be put in to strengthen the relationship. Though, love will help you stay glued to each other when your relationship hits the rough patch. Love is the foundation of a relationship, without which no relationship can stand its ground.

Find the one-stop shop, people

Every now or then, you will feel the burden of a convenient relationship.

It will somewhat bog you down, and your soul will stop nurturing. A convenient relationship is more like an unwanted yet inevitable ‘set of responsibilities’ that eventually makes you tired and wanting to let go. It ain’t wind beneath your wings, indeed.

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