5 Signs Your Relationship Is Intensifying

INTENSIFYING! Is one of the most exciting stages, according to Knapp’s Relationship Model, when two mates are beginning to accelerate their feelings emotionally and physically. Tests, both obvious and hidden, are used to gage the depth of connection, and result in either a sigh of relief or reveal the red flags that eventually push you to reactivate your eHarmony account. With a shift of disclosing your personal information via online dating and SNS’, your potential partners can effectively creep into your past and bypass having to ask any question of depth in person. Therefore couples can sprint through this stage if they have already approved of their personalities online, and begin to morally debate the final test of sending/accepting the statement-making act of being Facebook Official...

1. If you start looking to third-parties to find out more information about your partner

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Facebook, AKA your bestie, can tell you anything you want to know about anyone relevant. Because trying to find out information about your crush in person has been thrown out the window, along with chivalry.

2. When you can share your personal beliefs and emotions with less fear of disapproval

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You’re not afraid anymore to reveal that you are a Republican in Liberal Seattle... He has to love you anyways, right?

3. When you let go of the anxiety caused by fear of losing your partner due to knowing him/her more intimately

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For girls: Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin' with no makeup on becomes the norm.

For guys: The need to flex before being touched becomes no more.

4. Forgetting about the gaze of friends and bystanders when it comes to displaying your feelings in public

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Does PDA stand for People Deserve Appreciation?? You forget about social norms when it comes to showing your love for that significant other because the intensity of your feelings override any acknowledgement of the judging eyes of your third-wheeling friend.

5. Making it "Facebook Official" with your partner

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Everyone knows that a couple obviously isn’t serious until they proclaim to the world that they are. Being “official” online has become the most important and often dreaded credential in advancing your relationship because its online permanence, which takes you off the online market is quite the scary thought.