I love my TL but....

I'm learning mandarin for almost 18 months now. I started it initially as it was a brand new language for me to see if it will be easier to fill an empty cup. I never interacted with the language before so everything feel new. And to my surprise, I like the language.

As I keep going, my love for the language grow day by day. And recently, I feel like I feel calm and in peace when I read or listen to a content in mandarin, and I prefer using this language instead of the 2 others languages I speak, and despite I barely hold a basic convo.

It's a good thing, right?

It is but as much as I like reading, trying to find the meaning behind a characters, a sentences, the grammar pattern, or I enjoy listening to an audio and understand just even 20% of the language, I feel like I don't want to study the language anymore. I just don't have the motivation to study anymore.

But still, I keep studying. Maybe it's just the idea of "studying" that revulse me and instead I just want to consume and use the language instead.

To be clear, I'm not on intermediate level yet and I have many things to work on before I reach this level.

Do anyone had or have experimented something similar?

Is it just a language learning fatigue?