Why Fall Is The Best Time To Fall In Love

You cuddle up together, wearing sweaters that block out the newly crisp air. Gone are the days with sweaty, sticky limbs from the hot summer sunshine. The leaves are changing, adding a crunch under your feet as you walk, hand-in-hand, as you talk about love and life and the things that make you feel. Every time you breathe in, your lungs fill with the scent of changing leaves, and you tie the scent memory to the moment you’re falling in love. You move into each other, using the chill in the air as a convenient excuse for the closeness. Body heat mingles and clashes with the autumn breeze, creating the perfect climate for a life-changing moment.

You find comfort in going out of your comfort zone in the fall. You plan dates for harvest festivals and haunted hayrides and scary movies in the dark. You celebrate the season in a way no other can compare, and you do it all together. You share knowing smiles during brief moments.

That mounting feeling that this could be something special coincides with with the adrenaline pumping through you as you both stumble out of a haunted house. You laugh together and clutch each other, bonding over the moments of shared terror and glee. The beginnings of your love are punctuated by the tangy sweet taste of caramel apples and and the smell bonfires.

And as the air chills more and more, you find yourself indoors, laid out on soft couches under rustic flannel blankets. Leaves fall outside your window as you watch your favorite Halloween movies. You bond over horror movies, and scary stories told in the dark. You embrace the season as you embrace each other, a fire crackling in the fireplace, warming you inside and out.

In that swirl of leaves skirting across the forest floor, in that steam curling up from your mugs of apple cider and rich hot chocolate, in that sweet vanilla smell of Halloween masks and fog machines–this is where your love begins. And this is where your heart will always reside.