Been lovesick many times. I think a good way to make sure things last longer, believe it or not, is avoid sex. Everything people described in this thread is simply mother nature's path. Mother nature can be kind, but she wants grand kids NOW. Sex seems like the natural transition after love has gotten strong enough, but it quickly leads to mixed thoughts after the initial hormones where off, and new emotions replace the old. Mother nature knows you now need to spread genes elsewhere. Bonding spirals downward, the only hope to preserve the spark happens less and less. In an effort, a couple more efforts at sex may occur, but they are simply the nail in the coffin as triggers in both partners' minds set off that they need more chances for genetic variety.
This one chick that I refused to have sex with even after the go ahead a few times (well I turned it down gently) stayed so much happier with me the entire time we were together. Even after breaking up and I told her why I always turned it down, she thought it was dumb at first, but wasn't unhappy with me. She and me still had some feelings, but she was at a point in her life to move on, because she knew I was more there to help her get over her past than be her future. The next guy she dated, they did it within 3 dates, seemed like magic and had a lot in common, but within a month hated each other. Nothing else changed, except for fucking like jack rabbits. If they had replaced all the sex with just cuddling and used their sexual tension for better things, they might have made a good couple. They really did have so much in common, but the chemicals in their minds changed their reality, or more so their perception on it.
Sex, well more the neuro chemical cycle linked with orgasm can really turn a perfect match into scum.
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