Passionate Love and Companionship Love, how would anyone know if their relationship is truly failing, or if their falling in love peak is simply fading? One would then start to wonder if they ever loved their partner, which would leave them with millions of questions running through their minds, perhaps making themselves believe that divorce is the best solution. This is when it is essential to know the difference between passionate love and companionate love. Passionate love is a feeling of strong emotions, wild passion, constant excitement, intensity and the feeling of not caring about anyone except you and your passionate lover. This passionate feeling usually lasts between 6 and 30 months and is commonly referred to as falling in love. While companionate love is more of a strong bond with a deep affectionate attachment that activates different parts of the brain and even though it is not as passionate, it is just as real as passionate love, or even stronger . Many begin to take companionship for granted simply because the “flame” has gone out. Passionate love fades quickly, but companionate love lasts a lifetime. According to Hatfield and other researchers, recent studies have indicated that marriages will begin filing for divorce between 2 and 4 years into their marriage, by which time the falling out of love phase is over. . Studies have shown that marriages that overcome this difficult phase are later rewarded with something that lasts a lifetime, called companionate love. There are many theories carried out by psychologists and researchers, but I decided to write about this particular topic because it hits home. After my mother and father broke up, my ...... middle of paper ...... to find true love. The idea of ​​true love must be ingrained in everyone, it is the type of love that is an enduring companionate love between two people united and firmly devoted to each other, and if worked at daily , it can contain additional passion. By researching and witnessing this situation, I believe people need to realize that passionate love does exist, but it can be difficult to maintain, but keep in mind that no one said love was easy. Let's just say that the passion had to disappear completely, that doesn't give one the right to run away from their potential companionate love and look for passionate love elsewhere, because guess what, that passionate love they found outside of marriage is going to leave them in the same situation they found themselves in in the first place, making it a never-ending cycle of broken hearts.