About LTR

Do you remember the first time you met your husband? Or your girlfriend? Was it love at first sight? Or did you have to come up with some sort of plan to convince your partner that you are the real one? Or wasn't there love at first sight, but something else got the two of you together?

Whether there was true love or not, it all started with the first encounter. When we meet a person for the first time we somehow naturally like the other person. There is chemistry. Or there isn't. Some sort of natural internal alignment process makes the two bodies sense each other. The outcome of the sensing might be positive, with the result that they like each other, or negative, as such not liking each other. The amount of liking or not liking might be from slightly to extremely.

If the liking is positive, the two bodies' relationship has reached first base. There is a natural positive chemistry between them. Automatically the second and third base are in sight.

When you like someone you are easier inclined to trust the person. You will at least give the person the benefit of the doubt. You have reached second base. And once you are there, there is a larger likelihood of you respecting the person. You will allow the person to show you what value he/she can add to you. Or even more, you start admiring the person even before the value was demonstrated. Third base!

Thus once you like a person you naturally trust and subsequently respect the person. Naturally you move from Like to Trust to Respect. As such LTR follows a natural process.