Sometimes, love isn’t about grand gestures. It could be just one glance shared between you and your significant other on the day you proposed, and knowing just from their eyes that they accept the ring and your whole being with all their heart.
These precious moments of connection, which hold the power to create everlasting bonds, can make or break relationships. It doesn’t take a year or a decade to decide something significant in your life, such as, “I love this person with everything in me.” These resolutions can happen in micro-moments and remain solid and unchanging for a long time.
Micro-moments are brief yet meaningful interactions that create significant emotional connections between people. These moments often occur spontaneously and can profoundly impact the strength and quality of relationships. They are characterized by their ability to convey deep feelings and reinforce bonds through small gestures, words, or actions that might seem insignificant in isolation but are powerful in context.
Barbara Fredrickson, a renowned psychologist known for pioneering research on positive emotions at the University of North Carolina, redefines love in her book Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become.
She presents scientific evidence to argue that love is not a long-lasting, ever-present emotion that sustains a marriage, the intense passion of young love, or the inherent bond of kinship. Instead, she........