5 Things that will happen if you stay with the same person for a long time

Staying with the same person for a long time?!

Already in a long term relationship? Or are you in the beginning of a serious one? Do you think you found the love of your life and your ONE?!

Well listen up!  

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According to science, those couples who stay together for a long time literally change about the way how they see the world and in other words, one can even say that long-term couples can end up sharing a shared mind. Time even changes each individual. You might tell me how is this even possible?! But psychologists have come up with 5 things that distinguish a long-term couple from a couple that have just started dating:

• You develop a private language with your partner

Ever received a message from your loved one that in your opinion doesn't even make sense but at the same time it still means to you? This is one of the very first signs that you are both operating in sync.

This communication that is only shared between you and your other half actually helps you to deepen your bond with each other as well as establishing a unique identity between you too. This said is established from a study done by Professor Robert Hopper from University of Texas.

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This shared private language can vary from soppy messages to nicknames and inside jokes. Carol Bruess, a psychologist from Ohio State University, found a link between how much partners are satisfied in a relationship to how much private words they use between them. She found out that the more of the private language that they share, the more happier they tend to be! 

• You start to LOOK ALIKE!

Have you ever thought that you might be mirroring your other half? Yes its true and its even proven! According to Robert Zajonc in his 1987 study, found that married couples use the same muscles so frequently that literally start to copy each other. This is explained in other words as shared structure, from how we gaze, how our body sways and the little movements and words of how we speak!

• You start to EVEN SOUND alike!

Joshua Wolf Shenk, author of 'Powers of Two', confirms in his book that indeed, long-term couples tend to match each other "in the basic rhythms" and "structures of their speech". It is found that when people spend a long time with each other, they mimic each other in every sense from the amount of pauses one does between words to mimicking the other person's accent. 

In a study that was conducted in 2010, it was found that couples who 'sounded' more alike when texting to each other, were still dating three months later.

• You stop SELF-CENSORING

When a couple are alone together it is noted that they speak differently than if they were with other people or friends. This is because when we are infront of other people, we self-monitor ourselves by adapting our behaviours to suit the people surrounding us.

But when couples have been dating for a long time, this sort of barrier falls and instead people talk normally and fluidly without the need of self-monitoring themselves!

• You have Inside Jokes that anyone else think that they are not even FUNNY!

As much as you may find it hard to believe, research suggest that couples tend to even mirror body language of each other. 

A study that was conducted in 2007 found that couples tended to copy the same eye movements as well as copy each other's gaze when they heard the exact same background information before their conversation.

& So Basically this is it. What do you think? Did it ever happen to you? Do you know of any other facts that you think that long-term couples do? 

Leave a comment below!

C.Armeni

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