Are You Waiting to be Seduced?

It's Thursday evening and you're standing in line at the grocery store. Your significant other called just as you were leaving work to inform you that dinner would not be on the table when you got home because there was nothing edible in the house. Great. Perfect end to a crap day.

You look around at all the other miserable nine to five-ers who've had to make the same dinner grabbing pit-stop as you have. And then suddenly, out of the garbled faceless crowd, you see their eyes - intent, focused, unflinching. You look behind you. Surely those eyes aren't meant for YOU. You look back cautiously, and the eyes are still there, just the same. No, a little more hungry now, a little more bold. The person smiles a little, a turning up of their lips, nothing more - but it's a smile that's universally recognizable. The one that says, "Yes, I'm looking at you and I think you look delicious."

You look away and shuffle forward as the checkout line moves up, but the blush you're trying to hide is already heating your cheeks. Should you look at them again? Should you smile back? Should you pretend you didn't see the lust in their eyes and get out of the store as quickly as possible?

You know what the right thing to do would be, but you can't help yourself. It's the most thrilling thing that's happened to you all day. Those eyes. That smile. You look up again, pulse racing. But there's no one there. Your heart inexplicably sinks, and you feels as though a chance has been missed. But a chance at what? You weren't going to talk to them. You weren't going to exchange numbers. But maybe one more exchanged look would have been enough...

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These secretly indulgent, unexpected, and utterly insignificant moments happen to us all at some point. They creep up out of nowhere and often make us wonder why that electric spark that passes so easily between strangers seems so hard to recapture with our long term significant others. For many, these moments make them doubt how "in love" they really are with their partners. Such a tiny exchange can cause all sorts of destructive thoughts - Am I bored with my relationship? Am I not close enough to my partner emotionally? Should I feel guilty about my attraction to this stranger? Should I tell my partner what happened when I get home?!

It's completely natural and very typical to experience momentary confusion, but the worst thing you can do is dwell on it too much. If you were perfectly content with your partner before this heart-pounding episode started, then you should rest assured that you are still content with your partner now that it is over. Just because someone looks at you "that way" and turns you on does not mean you're going to run off and start cheating.

Having said that, the fact that people experience these interactions with others should be some what of an incentive to keep your own relationship as spicy as possible. If your relationship is in trouble and both partners are not getting their needs met - either emotionally or physically - then these furtive glances across the grocery aisles are much more likely to be perused.

Essentially you can think of it this way: Everyone is always waiting to be seduced and swept away by a torrid and sexual romance. No one's life is ever too busy for such things. Somehow lovers always find the time to be lovers.

So the real question becomes: Are you going to let a stranger seduce your lover, or are you?

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