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15 Important Lessons Maturity Teaches Us About Love
Stop giving your heart to people who haven’t earned it.
Erich Fromm once proclaimed:
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’
Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.”
What are some other lessons that maturity and life experience will teach us about the realities of love?
1: Appreciate the gift of time.
Time is our most valuable asset of all. It is a limited commodity for each of us. Maturity will teach us to appreciate it when someone spends their time with us more than when they spend their money on us. Money can be gotten back, time cannot.
2: You can handle it. Whatever “it” is.
We all face tough times. Heartbreak, ends of relationships, challenges in life. Things that make us say “I don’t know if I can handle this.” We use this as an expression to define the significance of a situation — but if you are reading this right now then you have a 100% success rate at handling tough times in your past, and you will be able to do it again in your future.
