Love is not enough.
Love is necessary. Love is important. Maybe I'm idealistic, but I believe that love truly unconditional love, whether platonic or familial or romantic is the single most powerful force on the face of the planet.
But it is not enough to keep people together when it is the only base their relationship has, and I think that more people need to understand that. It's easy to think that love is everything, and even I'm guilty of thinking that but when I pick apart the layers of the love I have in my life, the kind of love I define as 'everything', it's pretty clear that I'm using the concept, the word, of love as a catch-all to describe so much more: trust and faith and compromise and camaraderie and hard work and, yes, love.
Some people might argue that love is all of those things, but it's possible to really, honestly love someone even love them unconditionally without having much faith in them and/or without entirely trusting them.
Love is a good foundation. It can easily be a cornerstone, a starting point, a basis on which to begin. The problem is that you can't build anything when the only thing you have is the groundwork.
Love is not enough.
Love is necessary. Love is important. Maybe I'm idealistic, but I believe that love truly unconditional love, whether platonic or familial or romantic is the single most powerful force on the face of the planet.
But it is not enough to keep people together when it is the only base their relationship has, and I think that more people need to understand that. It's easy to think that love is everything, and even I'm guilty of thinking that but when I pick apart the layers of the love I have in my life, the kind of love I define as 'everything', it's pretty clear that I'm using the concept, the word, of love as a catch-all to describe so much more: trust and faith and compromise and camaraderie and hard work and, yes, love.
Some people might argue that love is all of those things, but it's possible to really, honestly love someone even love them unconditionally without having much faith in them and/or without entirely trusting them.
Love is a good foundation. It can easily be a cornerstone, a starting point, a basis on which to begin. The problem is that you can't build anything when the only thing you have is the groundwork.
Love is not enough.
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