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them because they have let their appearance slip but you can “talk to yourself” about it. You can concentrate on hinding the value your partner brings to your relationship in other ways. However, depending on the type of person you are it might be easier to seek attention from the “newness” someone else brings into your life. Fortunately that’s what the next chapter is about.
Fad Love
Fad love represents a quick breakdown of a “potential” partnership. Partners meet. Sparks hly. The chemistry electrihies the relationship. Sexual energy is through the roof. But glimpses of incompatibility become snapshots of the relationship heading to an unfulhilling or worse still dangerous place in the long term.
“What have I gotten myself into?”
That is the question you will most probably hear yourself asking about fad love. You might notice that your new partner has a habit you don’t approve of (like a drug or alcohol problem, or can’t stop buying Hello Kitty higurines off eBay), or is cheap, or is dependent and needy, or possessive, or has a temper, or a huge honking tattoo of a cartoon character that you thought was cute but now feels like it’s listening in on all your private conversations, or you might hind that your new potential partner actually IS listening in on your private conversations and checking your texts when they think you are not looking.
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