Food For Love: Hope, Fantasy and Anticipation

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Food For Love: Hope, Fantasy and Anticipation

All love stories start out with the big three: Hope, Fantasy and Anticipation.

In reciprocated, mutualing-falling-in-love love stories, the Hope, Fantasy and Anticipation trifecta create the exciting beginning stage or “honeymoon” phase. But what if there are obstacles? What if the one you love isn’t available, or worse, you’re not sure if they feel the same way? Falling in love is a natural progression and a natural state of being, but….

Love doesn’t really seem to care if you’re already married or committed…Or if the one you love is. Or if they give you mixed signals….

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Painful Love: When Loving Means Longing

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Painful Love: When Loving Means Longing

Love just out of reach. Hoping, wishing for more. Hanging on.

The pain of basic relationship needs not met.

Maybe you’ve never been in a relationship where you felt truly fulfilled or loved. Or drawn over and over to the just out of reach partner. The pain of longing can create a sort of intensity. A bittersweet passion. It can also make love without longing feel bland or missing “something.”


Have you ever felt this way? Maybe you didn’t do the chasing, you were pursued without ambiguity and it just felt off. Boring. No SPARK?

Maybe the more attractive option was the quiet, stormy, brooding guy just out of range who would barely even give you the time of day?


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What is Limerence?

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What is Limerence?

What is LIMERENCE?

More intense than a crush, it’s an all consuming state of BEING IN LOVE. It’s marked by involuntary and obsessive thinking about a love interest that can lead to the highest of highs (when the feelings seem reciprocated) to the lowest of lows (when the doubt and despair sets in).

The euphoria…the despair….limerence is not love, but can be an awakening to love and life.

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Do You Attract Unavailable Men?

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Photo: @anthonytran

Photo: @anthonytran

This article was originally posted on YourTango.

It’s painful and exhausting being in a relationship with an unavailable guy.

Sleepless nights rehashing confusing mixed signals, intense, soulful, and connected sex, and then sitting anxiously awaiting for a text, days later.

Waking up with the familiar gut-sinking fear of being ghosted, and the emotional whiplash of uncertainty that comes with being with someone who just can't seem to commit.

If this type of relationship is so painful, why is it so hard to let go?

Click here to read my full article published on YourTango: 5 Reasons Why It's So Hard To Let Go Of Unavailable Men

Struggling with the heartache of being with an unavailable partner? It’s exhausting and takes a toll on your energy and self-confidence.

Contact me for a 30 minute consultation. I’ll take you through my strategies and process to get clarity on your personal situation and reclaim your power.

xOx Steph