In the Polyamory community, we talk about NRE - New Relationship Energy. The idea is that when someone gets started on a new relationship; when they are in the first stages of flirting and figuring out if they are compatible, there's usually a lot of mental energy focused on this new relationship. If you are a partner or friend of someone in a new relationship, you may hear a lot more than you'd like about this new potential person - what they look like, how they've answered questions, everything they've said... And your friend/partner may be less available to you because they are spending all their time & energy on this new relationship. I mean, you're happy for them to be so excited and happy, but also, it can be overwhelming, when it's someone else's New Relationship Energy (NRE), and not yours.
Of course, hand-in-hand with talking about NRE is reminding ourselves to be patient with this person who is radiating the NRE. It will ease off when the relationship is no long quite so new. Jealousy can easily crop up when your partner is full of NRE and you... aren't. Feeling like 'yesterday's news' can be a problem for the existing partner, and we have to remind ourselves to enjoy our existing established reliable partners as well as the new exciting unknown.
But I'm actually not here to talk about New Relationship Energy (NRE); I just wanted to establish what it is for those not familiar with the concept.
I'm here to talk about New Project Energy (NPE). Because it's something that is very much a part of my personality. When I get to working on a new project, everyone in my world gets to be a part of it - whether they want to be or not.
