Love... is it enough?
If you are left asking yourself this timeless question, I'd suggest you take some time out to figure out why.
Why can't love be enough?.. surely it is all we require?
Nope, no- not at all! The issue with relationships are that so many times we think Love is the glue that will hold us together but truthfully love can also render your judgement biased and ultimately lead to unhappiness.
So what does make a relationship work? Honesty, Trust, Smoldering Sex? I guess I believe it is a combination of many things but it all stems down to RESPECT.
Yes I am going to go all Aretha on you!
So many times we allow our brutal honesty to be our "get out of jail" free card, meaning if I say something you don't like well then I'm sorry I'm just being honest with you. It is easy to forget that your partner is different, we all do not share the same upbringing, culture or religious beliefs so it is important to appreciate respect in a relationship.
Men appreciate your woman and women appreciate your man, the things we do for each other are not compulsory.
Attraction brings us together, Love sustains us and Respect helps us prosper.
He said-
All we need is love and fresh air? Best believe it!
She’s been telling you how love just isn’t enough to make a relationship work. It’s all about respect and honesty and trust and sex. Especially sex. Personally, I think we have this whole thing wrong.
Of course love is enough to make a relationship work. I mean, why do we classify love separately from those other things anyway? To me, respect, trust, honesty, sex, material investment (both gifts and rent), patience, tolerance, tact, cooperation, compromise and all the other general requirements needed to keep two people together are just expressions of love.
Sometimes we need to be reminded that love is not just that feeling we get when we see our beloved. Love is a way of being. It’s in the way we treat each other. It’s in those soft sweet kisses we share, and our self-control when we piss each other off. Love is our guardian angel, it’s our rule book. It’s our reminder of why we stay together.
Love is only not enough when there isn’t enough love.
