Love means trusting the person I love. If I love you, I trust that
you will accept my caring and my love and that you won't
deliberately hurt me. I trust that you will find me attractive, and
that you won't abandon me; I trust the mutual nature of our love.
If wequests level wowtrust each other, we are willing to be open to each other and
reveal our true selves.Love can tolerate imperfection. In a love relationship there are
times when I am bored, times when I may feel like giving up, times
of real strain, and times I feel I can't move forward. Authentic
love does not imply enduring happiness. I can stay during rough
times, however, because I can remember what we had together in thewow lvl uppast, and I can picture what we will have together in our future if
we care enough to face our problems and work them through. We agree
with the idea that love is a spirit that changes life. Love is a
way of life that is creative and that transforms. However, love is
not reserved for a perfect world. Love is meant for our imperfect
world where things go wrong. Love is meant to be a spirit that
works in painful situations. Love is meant to bring meaning into
life where nonsense appears to rule. In other words, love comes
into an imperfect world to make it possible to live.Love is open. If I love you, I encourage you to reach out and
develop other relationships. Although our love for each other and
our commitment to each other might prohibit certain actions on our
parts, we are not totally and exclusively married tohonor levelingeach other. It is a false love that cements one person to another
in such a way that he or she is not given room to grow.Love is selfish. I can only love you if I genuinely love, value,
appreciate, and respect myself. If I am empty, then all I can give
you is my emptiness. If I feel that I'm complete andwow 1 80 levelingworthwhile in myself, then I'm able to give to you out of my
fullness. One of the best ways for me to give you love is by fully
enjoying myself with you.Love involves seeing the potential within the person we love. In my
love for another, I view her or him as the person she or he can
become, whilewow level upstill accepting who and what the person is now. By taking people as
they are, we make them worse, but by treating them as if they
already were what they ought to be, we help make them better.To sum it up, mature love is union under thewow 70 80 levelingcondition of preserving one's individuality. In love, two beings
become one and yet remain two.
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