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As your relationship develops, take the time to prepare for the next stage.

and now these three remain: FAITH, HOPE and LOVE.

How Do You Know If Feelings Are Mutual? Things to keep in mind at this stage• When both of you have finally undressed before each other, the sleepovers will follow! This is the time when you might express your feelings of affection, start spending more time together and give one another gifts.

Many couples don't talk about their feelings with each other at this stage, often out of fear, and they rarely talk to others about them either.

But you will stick with them anyway.

A hot hookup that makes you think, Oh, yeah, mama can work with THIS.

If you like their friends, it can make you feel like proud to be with this person, says Dardashti.

Got a story to tell or a question to ask? What this all translates to for couples is the natural experience that things are settling or a winding down.

Cindy Lamothe is a freelance journalist based in Guatemala.