What is NRE? It stands for New Relationship Energy and refers, broadly speaking, to that bubbly feeling (the ‘emotional high’) one experiences during a fresh and exciting romance. I used to think of it as that thing that happens when you first start seeing / dating / kissing / sleeping with someone that makes hangovers no longer hurt.
But then, eight years ago, I got sober and lots of things had to change, including how I defined that fizzy happy energy that people emanate when they begin developing a loving or romantic or sexual connection.