Did you go through a newlywed phase?

dulcemariamar1

After you got married, do you think you went through a newlywed phase where everything was rainbows and puppies and you couldnt keep your hands off of each other?

I think since we lived together before getting married, things didnt really change that much. I actually like things now better than when we first got married.

aMrsin09

Oh H3LL yes!

But that was probably because we lived on separate continents while we were dating, then got married and had to live apart (again on separate continents) until my Visa came through.  When I moved to France it was the first time we had ever been able to see each other every single day.

azure_azure

No, but it's because we lived together for 9 years before getting married. Our wedding didn't change anything, but we rarely keep our hands to ourselves anyways.

NLfoodie

Nope, lived together for a long time already. Honestly, we didn't even really have that when we just moved in together. Before we lived together we really only saw each other on weekends, so those weekends were 'use every second we have together to cuddle and do fun stuff', while when we lived together, we knew we'd have all the time in the world, so it actually became less because we didn't need to put a week's worth of cuddles in one day. 

Val

Not really, no but we'd been living together for 5 years by then.

glitterfart

Nope, but we lived together before we got married, so maybe that?s part of if?

kelly321

Not really even though it was the first time we had even lived in the same city since before we started dating. We're both pretty down-to-earth people, though, so we weren't expecting rainbows and puppies. We were living in Berlin that summer and had tons of visitors, so we were kept pretty busy entertaining them.

PittPurple

glitterfart:

Nope, but we lived together before we got married, so maybe that?s part of if?

Yup. I don't think marriage changed that much. I changed my name so that was different and I started trying harder with his family since I'm stuck with them for life now (!) but we were pretty used to each other by then. 

VABeach08

We didn't go through rainbows and puppies but, happily, we also didn't go through the 'blue' period (rocky transition) some couples experience.

Like pps, H and I had been together for several years and had lived together during our engagement, so other than my husband calling me 'Wife' as if it were my first name (in jest), not much changed.

bluegirl2006

We sure did and boy do I miss it! Ours was, like AMrs09, because we hadn't lived on the same continent until 2 months before the wedding and I'm including that 2 months in the honeymoon period. Unfortunately for us ours was cut short when my DH got really sick 8 months after our wedding. He's been disabled ever since which caused all kinds of change to our daily lives. No more honeymoon period here.

I think it is really common not to have one though if you've lived together before marriage.

ashleynicoles

No not at all. Our relationship dynamic has been the same since day one. We're over-rational dreamers with 1000 conflicting goals and loving every minute of it.

ukyankee

Not at all. We just continued on the way we were.  We had been living together for a year before we got married.

jen&L

We were the opposite.  We didn't live together until 8 months AFTER we got married.  Getting married made life worse because being long-distance got more painful.  When then spent another 1.5 years sorting out visa and job issues.  We were living together but the situation was temporary and stressful.  Honeymoon period was definitely over when all was done, but of course it's still really nice to know we can now live together indefinitely.