I have been dating my boyfriend for almost a year and a half, and this is really the first time I have ever been truely in love. Therefore, I'm not sure how to feel or if what I feel is normal. Whenever I am with him I am so happy, there is never a frown on my face, he always knows how to brighten my day. People say when I talk about him my face starts to glow, and I look so happy. Recently we have hit a rough patch, which we made it through fine but it seems like whenever we argue part of me dies inside, like part of my love fades....it always comes back but it takes time. Is this normal?

Also, when I say I love you, I don't always get a "special" feeling inside, and like I said I don't know if this is normal or not because this is the first time I've truly been in love, and this is the man I want to marry.

I have had another issue though...Although I know deep down that I love him with all my heart I find myself questioning whether I really do, and I don't know why. I sometimes get feelings that I don't love him but the thought of losing him kills me inside. I think that I get these feelings because we are with each other somedays 24/7 and that I feel that I don't love him because I have no alone time. Also my grades are slipping because I do spend a lot of time with him instead of doing my work.

He has no problem hanging out by himself, in fact he agrees that we need alone time, however I feel bad sometimes and I don't do things by myself...and I think that is tearing us apart, and making me feel things that I don't really feel. How do I get myself back to where I want to be before we were dating...not together 24/7 cause I think it is suffocating us...

Any help would be great because I know I do love this man with my whole heart, he is the one I want to marry, he is perfect to me and treats me the way I want to be treated....I just want those weird feelings to go away