Is it normal to be like this whilst in love?

I've fallen in love with this amazing man and it's nothing like I've ever experienced before. I've had two previous relationships where I thought I was in love but now I realise they came nothing close to the real thing. I spend most of the day thinking about him, I'm a pretty anxious person but physical contact with him calms me like nothing else is able to, whenever he smiles/laughs/etc my chest feels like it's being squeezed and I get this weird throbbing in my right hand, whenever he kisses me I genuinely feel lightheaded. In my other relationships kissing was mostly just a warm up but it isn't like that with him. When we're apart for extended periods of time, I find myself getting physically anxious, like my whole body is thrumming with excitement to see him again and I'm much more emotional now, just thinking about how much I love him can make me cry. I'm aware that this must sound really cheesy but this is the best way I could describe it. I'm pretty young and this is my first experience of love so I always thought it was a completely emotional thing. What I want to know is it normal to have such physical reactions to being in love?

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91% Normal
Based on 22 votes (20 yes)
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  • thegypsysailor

    How many times have we told that 'crazy in love' 16 year old that they don't yet know what love is. You tell em.

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    • sexysonofsam

      There is just no point in telling them, they don`t believe us anyway?

      I think her boyfriend should stop sitting on her chest, this should alleviate that tight feeling she has...

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      • daydreamer394

        How do you possibly know every sixteen year old in the world? That comment was silly.

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        • sexysonofsam

          I was sixteen myself a long time ago and know what is going through your mind...go play with yourself!

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    • I'm 23.

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      • thegypsysailor

        Yeah, I got that. That was my point; you tell em.

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  • Avant-Garde

    It's similar to what I've experienced with the one I love, yet somehow different... I think it's normal.

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  • modernism

    Yup. It's normal. Now go have fun being in love. Or whatever. :P

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