My girlfriend and I are both 25 and have been in our relationship for 6 years. We love each other very much - we both recognize how important the other is in our lives and we still care for each other very much. We've talked plenty about our future and about marriage.
But as of the last year or so, my girlfriend has lost a lot of the PASSION that she used to have. To put it simply, she loves me but is not IN love with me. There is no doubt in my mind that she cares very much and that she does in fact love me... but that passion just hasn't been there... she just doesn't feel in love with me, and we both acknowledge that fact.
She has been a huge part of my life and I have been a huge part of hers. We're at that point where we have to think about marriage and the future, but I just don't know what to feel about the fact that she deosn't feel in love with me. These feelings have been for at least a year or so now and it just has not seemed to improve... and I don't know what to think of it - whether to be patient, whether I should expect change, whether I should keep hoping.
I know in the grand scheme of things we're both young and so I just don't know what I should expect. On one hand, I want to be patient and I want to keep hoping things will change, but on the other hand it frustrates me and bothers me a lot that the feeling of being "in love" isn't reciprocated. We've come very very very close to breaking up over this and I just don't know what to think or feel about it anymore.
Does anyone have any advice for me?
