True Love

What is love that we give so much time to it?
How do we know love when we encounter it?
I’d like to think that love is one of the most important aspects of a person’s purpose for life.
I believe we live solely to share a special love with at least one other individual.

I have been lucky enough to have shared love with many people.
I have been in love countless times, and have shared parts of my life with more than one special companion.
How does one know the value one should place on a relationship?
How do you know when the love you share surpasses the average?

Love is special when someone stays, when others would have left.
Love is special when there is love within a stressful and apparent hopeless situation.
It is easy to love someone when all is well, but true love shares dry bread.
Love is so easy when you are in love, but true love endures upset and disappointment in each other.

Love is about knowing that you want to share you life with someone, despite being really upset with them.
Disregard common believe, love is about sleeping next to someone, while you would really like to be somewhere else.
True love endures the confusion this life places on your mate, even when they consider breaking away from you.
Love understands when the soul is tormented and fails to produce a smile.

If you really love someone, you would know to listen even when the words cut through your being.
With love you will give good advice, even though it would bring you considerable pain.
You should know that these things would only be in the bad times.
When things are going well, you will share a feeling of being in love; a sense of having purpose in this life.

In the good times, and there are many of them; it is like sharing your life with the most awesome person you know.
There is companionship, friendship and laughter when you are together; a knowledge that it will last forever.
When you know each other; it is the intense experience of the emotion of love that brings the sensation to climax.
No bachelor moment can top that.

The wisdom of making a relationship last is in knowing when to speak and knowing when to stay silent.
I know all of this to be true; because this is the love my wife has for me.
I have learned from her that love is about constantly being there.
It’s clear that she truly loves me; now I know that there is mutual love here.
By : Thys Groesbeek