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A Kiss to Remember
“Make every kiss your first kiss, the one that captured your heart forever”
Do you remember the first time you kissed your partners lips … really and truly shared your first passionate kiss together?
Think back and remember what a magical feeling it was. The warm desire you had as your lips parted, and the two of you melted into one another as if you were the only two people in the world, knowing that your hearts had been swept away together forever.
In our busy, stressful lives, it is all to easy to share a peck on the lips in the morning, and a little smooch on the cheek as a greeting upon returning home, but what if we made each kiss our first kiss?
Kissing … The Healthy Drug
It isn’t a secret that kissing feels good, really really really good, and the reason we are conditioned to share affection by touching lips isn’t just a time honoured tradition, but pure and simple textbook chemistry.
When we kiss, serotonin, dopamine, and an intoxicating blend of chemicals is released into the pleasure centres of our brain, leaving us with a feeling of excitement and euphoria. The deeper and more passionately we kiss each other, the more chemicals are released, leaving us feeling dopey with love and pleasure. That’s a good thing.
So often in our lives we search for a little pick me up to make us feel “better” and more relaxed. We pour a glass of wine, or reach for a substance that alters our mood to temporarily feel a sense of relief. What we are doing when consuming drugs and alcohol is triggering the reward centres in our brain to produce dopamine, which gives us that feeling of pleasure. That’s the same chemical reaction we achieve from kissing.
Perhaps it’s time for a little test. Next time you are feeling stressed at the end of a long day, instead of reaching for a glass of wine, reach out to your partner for a kiss. We want this to be a fair test, so don’t settle for a little peck on the cheek and a “how was your day”, give them a real kiss; a knee buckling, swooning kiss that is filled with romance and passion … like the first kiss you shared with them when you just met.
I bet you feel waaaaaayyyyy better than you would have if you had just sipped a glass of wine!
What Does A Kiss Mean?
It may sound like a silly question, of course a kiss means “I Love You”.
Each time you kiss your partner you are telling them that you love them, so let’s take a moment to think of the types of kisses you are giving to the one you love.
As you hurry out the door in the morning, do you give your lover a quick peck on the cheek as you are both hurrying away? That’s nice as it means “even though I’m in a rush I want you to know I love you”. It only took a second of your time, and left your partner feeling a connection to you before you both start your busy days. Nice.
When you arrive home at the end of the day, do you give your partner a hug and plant a little kiss on their lips? That’s always a nice way to say “I’m happy to see you after being apart all day”. Again, a nice way to affirm the affection you feel for one another. Nice.
Now think about your first kiss, and an earlier time in your relationship. After the first time you spent the night together with your partner, would you have given them just a peck on the cheek before work in the morning? When meeting each other for your next date, would you have given them just a quick little smooch on the lips? There’s a very good chance that would not have been the case. In fact you most likely would have shared kisses so passionate that if the sky were to have fallen upon your heads you would not have noticed. Those are the romantic kisses we should have in our lives.
It may be “nice” to acknowledge each other in passing with a little kiss, but it only takes a few extra moments to look into their eyes, part your lips, and share a passionate, romantic kiss full of love with your partner. Each time you kiss let them know that you are every bit as filled with desire for them at that moment as you were the first time you kissed, the first time you felt that shared rush of intoxicating love.
A kiss means “I Love You” so with each kiss, show your partner just how much you truly love them … it takes but a moment more to share a passionate kiss over a perfunctory kiss, and your partner will be left remembering how wonderful your lips made them feel, and count down the minutes until you kiss them again.
The Last Kiss on Your Lips
Kissing is one of the most romantic activities we can share, and the more committed we are to ensuring that each time we kiss our partner it reflects the passion and desire we have for them, the more passion and desire we will have in our lives.
Take the extra few moments, and truly kiss your partner with love and passion each time you say “laters”, welcome them back home, or pass them in the hallway. A true kiss is an intoxicating feeling that is chemically proven to make us feel wonderful, so don’t let a moment of shared euphoria slip away from you for the sake of a peck on the cheek.
The first time you shared that unforgettably passionate kiss with your partner, you fell in love, and from that moment you knew that their lips would be the last you would ever kiss, so make sure each kiss reflects your first kiss, and make sure that the burning memory in your partners mind is of your last kiss.
Romantic Reflections is a collection of thoughts and musings intended to add little touches of love and romance to our relationships creating a fairytale that will last forever.