Ep 80 - Fantasy Love of An Affair and Real Love - 20 Differences

Healing Broken Trust In Your Marriage After Infidelity

Brad and Morgan Robinson

Affairrecovery, Self-improvement, Sexuality, Infidelity, Family, Relationships, Marriage, Cheating, Health & Fitness, Trust, Education

4.6 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we discuss the differences between "fantasy love" or "limerence" and "companionship love" or "real love". We explain how limerence is an intense, emotionally volatile form of love driven by attraction and fantasy, while companionship love is a deeper, more stable form of love built on mutual commitment, trust, and shared values. The speakers emphasize that companionship love, while less flashy, is ultimately more sustainable and fulfilling in the long run.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Healing Broken Trust podcast on Morgan Robinson.
0:06.1	And I'm Brad Robinson.
0:07.2	And we're excited to bring to you this episode.
0:09.9	It's called Fantasy Love Affair versus Real Love and 20 differences.
0:15.5	And we apologize in advance.
0:16.9	We're here in Oklahoma and it is allergy season.
0:20.2	So if we sound different than normal, we're sorry. but we're going to do our very best to sound as normal as possible.
0:26.7	All right.
0:27.3	So let's jump in, Brad.
0:28.8	Yeah.
0:29.3	What do you think?
0:29.8	Morgan, one of the most heartbreaking things that I will hear from people who've been betrayed is they'll frequently make a comment like this.
0:37.3	My spouse told me that they love
0:39.7	me, but they're not in love with me anymore. Yeah, that's right. And that they've never felt
0:43.8	this way about another person. They will say that my spouse is a good person, but I think they've
0:51.1	lost their marbles because they're saying they believe this affair partner is their soulmate.
0:57.1	And then the final statement they'll make is how do I even compete with that?
1:01.9	Like we've had what I felt like has been a stable relationship, a stable marriage,
1:06.6	and then they meet somebody or it's a coworker or somebody they've known for a while,
1:10.5	and then they feel like they've been struck by lightning and have this intense infatuation,
1:16.7	intense romantic love with somebody.
1:18.6	How do I even compete with that?
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