

No matter the achievement, burden, or experience: it is felt equally.ġ1. Love does not center on one person in order to sideline the other. Their desires, dreams, hopes, feelings, and thoughts are equally heard and accounted for. Love desires the highest good from each person, knowing full well that when both people are independently happy and bring that happiness to the relationship, the highest love can be felt.ġ0. It does not build and store up grievances over years only to explode like a bomb in destruction of the relationship.ĩ. Love creates an environment to express or air hurt feelings or grievances. Love doesn’t need to last a certain amount of time for it to be real and true and pure.Ĩ.

Love can sometimes last a day, a year, ten years, a lifetime. Love does not need to be forever for it to mean something. It is not built on the foundation of deceit.ħ. It doesn’t say: “I love you because I need you.” It says: “I love you right now and that’s enough.”Ħ. Love is not a panicked need for each other. It is open and honest and transparent and communicative, because love does not restrain or constrict or conceal.ĥ. Love is not uncertain about where it stands. Love is not smushing your two independent identities together to become one unit who is not capable of existing without the other person.Ĥ.

Love is not needing to be with each other every single moment to the detriment of other friendships, interests, or life experiences.ģ. Love is not irrationally jealous in the name of passion.
