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If I love my partner, why do I still find other people attractive?

Exclusive relationships are often accompanied by an unspoken fantasy that once you meet “your person,” everyone else should automatically stop being attractive.


But being in a relationship does not switch off your eyes, attention or capacity for attraction.

You can be happy with your partner and still notice someone beautiful. Feel chemistry. Develop a small crush. Enjoy someone else’s attention.

And that is often where anxiety appears: if someone else caught my interest, does that mean something is wrong with my relationship?

Not necessarily.

The more interesting question is not whether attraction ever appears, but what a person chooses to do with it and what agreements exist within their relationship.

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