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10 Thoughts You’ll Have If It’s Real Love
The many meanings of “I love you.”
The word ‘love’ takes on many different forms and meanings. There are casual ‘luv ya’ texts to a friend, the love we share between family members, the love we have for a best friend, and then there is the deep, intimate love we feel in a relationship.
The type of love that can be expressed by no other way than the genuine, look-you-in-the-eye: “I love you.”
The words themselves are only words. What gives them meaning are the commitments you make when you say them:
1: I will put “we” before “me”.
To love someone is to link your emotions to theirs. To share in their happiness and to lend them your strength to heal their pain during times of need.
“Me” becomes “We.”
As Robert A. Heinlein eloquently stated:
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
2: I accept ALL of you.
We all know that nobody is perfect (sorry to be the one to break the news…) and building a relationship is one of the times in life that we are most starkly reminded of…
