How I’m Past Being In Love

How to describe being past this in love state

I sit across from a friend of mine. I’m explaining how I look forward to being with the person that I’m with. That they get me, so much so they provide things that I need but I don’t even ask for.

“You feel this way because you’re in love,” my friend says.

Everyone seems to think my love is something new. Like those relationships that haven’t quite been through the trials of life. Or, a sort of puppy love that we both are afflicted with. But, it’s not true, we have been together for years. He is my constant, my sounding board, and my cheerleader in life.

But, I’m honestly past being in love. It seems like a term that doesn’t really show the kind of lasting love we have together. So, what is it?

It’s a staying love. It’s love that looks to each other as not loving each other as a chore, but an adventure. Those are his wise words as we talked about the concept and the reality for some people of falling out of love. Or, choosing not to be in love with the person you’re with, but rather a sort of companionship. My parents are more of the companionship sort.

My mother admits to never being the in love sort. I was raised without seeing love being displayed every day. If anything there were a lot of…