Love is not a feeling. Love is being caring. Caring about everything that is important to them. The little things, the big things, the things that they say don't matter, but you get that inner feeling that they do. Caring about how your actions affect them. Caring about what they want. Caring for the fragile heart that is concealed within their frame of flesh.
Love is being faithful. Faithful to your word and to your promises. People make promises without knowing the extent of what they mean. Love keeps true to those promises no matter how hard it gets. Love is being faithful to them in an emotional sense. You have no eyes for anyone else. It means being faithful in a physical sense. You do not imagine committing promiscuous acts with anyone. Not even them.
Because Love means respect. Respect for their wishes. Respect for what they need. Respect for their body and for their mind; you strive to keep them in the best condition. You respect their boundaries, again, both physical and emotional.
Love is honest. It strives to keep dishonesty out of the relationship, knowing that it will tear it apart from the roots. Keeping lies away from the tongue, that could kill any blossoming concoction of emotions. It realises that the object of the affection deserves the truth in all cases. Knowing that it's best, no matter how it hurts.
Love is serving. It does anything possible to cater to the needs of the other. It recognises that it wants to do anything it can to better the life of the other.
Love is selfless. It puts off its own desires and wants for the other. It shares its thoughts, life, resources, and anything it can with the other. It gives them what they want at the mere expense of what it itself wants. It does so with complete happiness.
Because Love is humble. It realises that it has no authority or reason to be looked up at. It realises that credit does not need to belong to it. It realises that pride will split the branches of the partnership; it will create strife and dispute. Two of the things it strives so hard to demolish.
Love is being patient. Understanding that human nature is hard to deal with. Understanding that patience is key to creating a solid foundation. It realises that rushing with leave holes and unstable foundations that will leave everything to come crashing down upon itself, causing tears and heartbreak that could easily have been
prevented.
Love is understanding. It understands all of this. Whether it chooses to follow this depends on the degree in which it occurs. It understands that a human is nothing without love. Love makes the world go round. It understands that without this, it is nothing.
Love is not a feeling...
Love is an action.
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