Mark Manson. 5 stages of relationships, which you must read and remember (video in Armenian)

Romance is the first stage

When you fall in love, you fail to notice his/her downsides. You are simply in love and nothing else matters. You make him/her a perfection without any drawbacks and start to underestimate your own capabilities. However, this stage is not forever and it comes to an end in around 2 years. Let’s consider love from the glance of evolution. When human beings evolved, nature wanted to prevent humanity from being wiped out. That’s why nature created human beings in such a way that they could have feelings for another person. As a result of this evolution people developed a feeling, which we now call love. Sometimes we wonder how we could love someone that is so different from us. We don’t even realize that nature wanted it to be that way.

Second stage is the dangerous stage

When thinking about the relationship you usually imagine a beautiful movie scene or a romantic novel. In fact, we realize that our relationships can never be perfect. This is the stage when the tension between the couple arises. This is especially true when they realize that the reality is far away from their imagination. This makes people quite nervous and brings up numerous problems. You get the impression that your partner has cheated on you and turned into another person. You start to think that he/she is no longer the same person you knew and fall in love with.

The stage of stable relationships

If the couple manages to overcome the challenges and respect the opinions of each other, they automatically move to the stable stage of the relationship. After overcoming all the hardships and suspicions they fall in love even more. At this stage, people realize that they have chosen the right partner, they do not imagine someone else next to them. This is the stage when you accept and love your partner with all his/her flaws and advantages.

The stage of commitment

In relationships, couples often consider this stage to be the marriage. Many couples decide to get married while they are still in the stage of romance, but in fact this is the stage where marriage should be considered. When couples reach this stage, they realize that they do not simply need each other, but rather can’t live without one another. They realize that everyone has flaws, no one is perfect. And this is when eternal love begins.

The final stage is the happiness

 At this stage you fully realize that you love each other. You also understand that both of you need to keep improving the relationship, in order to avoid being affected by any tiny problem or disagreement. In his book “Models: Attract Women Through Honesty” Mark Manson gives detailed guidance on the methods and strategies, which can help men to transform themselves and become successful in relationships.