How Might Love Change during Middle Adulthood

Love changes from the sexual physical attraction and semi-lustful stage to a more settled down team that works together to create a family. There is partnership in raising the children, supporting each other during hard family and friends situations including death of loved ones, and being an active listener and best friend moving away from the beginning lustful stages. Usually a large portion of those divorcées go through what is called Empty Nest Syndrome refers to feelings of depression, sadness, and / or grief experienced by parents after children coming of age leave their childhood homes. This may occur when children leave home to attend college or to get married. The parents are left without a common bond to hold them together like raising the children and may then realize how unhappy their marriage is and without those children to hold them together, they will divorce and find someone who can bring them that happiness that is lacking.