Really, you’ve heard a few years? I think the honeymoon phase always ends much more quickly than that. The most I’ve ever gotten is about a year.

Research on this topic shows a sharp drop-off around 6 months:

Source: https://medium.com/@cheriehu42/aziz-ansari-and-top-40-hits-i-e-how-data-shows-that-listening-to-music-is-like-being-married-e3fd6e3686ec

This chart illustrates it also but isn’t based on actual data:

Source: https://workingoutloud.com/blog/happiness-the-two-kinds-of-love

As seen on the first chart, any relationship is likely to end around the 1–5 year mark, and it takes about 20+ years for companionate love to reach the levels previously associated with passionate love…