What is Love?
There are different ways to define love. Love is a very important emotion and we must take it seriously.
What is love? Love is a complex set of emotions, behaviors, and beliefs associated with strong feelings of affection, protection, warmth, and respect for another person. Love can also be used to apply to animals, principles, and religious beliefs. For example, a person might say that they love their dog, love freedom, or love God.
Some possible definitions of love include:
The willingness to prioritize the well-being or happiness of others over yours.
Extreme feelings of attachment, affection and need.
Dramatic, sudden feelings of attraction and respect.
A fleeting emotion of care, affection and taste.
An option to commit to helping, respecting and caring for another person, such as in marriage or having a child.
Some combination of the above emotions.
What is it to feel love for a person?
When we behave with love towards someone, it means that we love that person. Feeling love for a person means
Embrace their idiosyncrasies and differences, because for you, they are endearing quirks.
Admire them.
You want to do anything for that person.
Listen to someone’s passion and dreams; He is finding ways to help them fulfill all their dreams.
It trusts another person for your happiness and confidence. It is being happy and confident, and that person increases your happiness.
Having similarities that no one has shared with you. He is passionate about the same things, while accepting the differences of others.
There are many different types of love, all of them significant and moving. But, true love, being in love, that’s the one we all want.
Love is an action. When you say, “I love you,” you are taking an action because you are showing the other person that you love them by doing nice things.
If someone says “I love you” and then acts as if they don’t care about anything, they are lying. Therefore the emotion of love is more than a feeling, it is an action.
Love is also understanding and forgiveness. We are all human and therefore we cannot expect us to be perfect and not make mistakes.
There are many imperfections in relationships, and the only difference in them is love. Love understands, accepts and forgives. This is a sign of true love and of the way love is expressed.
Is Love a Choice?
It has been proven time and again that there is no perfect relationship. All couples go through a rough period and sometimes it makes one wonder how a relationship that started so beautifully can become so damaged. Losing a relationship can be frightening and you would want to do everything to save it.
The good news is that there is no relationship that cannot be saved if there still exists between partners the great love that brought them together in the first place. When things are not going well in your relationship, choosing love over other things will definitely motivate you to work on it.
Love is a choice you should consciously make everyday of your life. You should learn how to control your emotions and love is one of the more important human emotions. Love is the basis of a long and lasting relationship. It doesn’t go away just because you are having problems in the relationship at the moment. You may be having your differences but it does not mean that you love each other any less.
It is normal to be sometimes angry or irritated with your partner over some trivial matters such as you don’t like the way he/she spends money, dresses, cleans the house, or talk. It is so easy to respond with anger and resentment in these situations but you also know that these will only lead to trouble in the relationship.
You just try to be understanding and patient and learn to let go of things that you can actually let go of. It is not worth picking up a fight over trivial matters. It really is not worth the time and the effort. Successful relationships are those that are built on love and respect. There should be no room for anger and resentment if what you want is a loving relationship.
Some say that arguments are necessary to make a relationship healthy and are necessary in making it a success. However, if arguments and conflicts can be avoided, why not make the relationship stress free? Nothing is wrong in avoiding anger, bickering or getting into serious fights with each other. However, suppressing anger is more dangerous which can cause one partner to just explode one day. It is also very necessary to learn how to healthily express anger and disappointments.
Love is a choice that a person makes to make the relationship pleasant, peaceful and romantic. While it is true that anger can creep into it once in a while, it is meant to be just a temporary thing. It is easier to find closure and move on from a disagreement if you learn to handle anger and fight fairly. Finally, remember to give more love in order to have more love.
This means that love should not be subjective with regards to your partner. You should love your partner in totality, warts and all. You should be willing to accept even his faults and failures. Love is a necessary component of a happy and lasting relationship.
