Love is the fusion of opposites in the understanding of feelings, thoughts, and attitudes. It is mutual tolerance, motivated by intense compatibility. True love has moved beyond the blindness of mere attraction. You have become enlightened, recognizing the strengths and weaknesses in the object of your love without being disillusioned or disappointed. True love is total adjustment to the other person, so that he or she becomes the most important person to you in the world. Love is motivation for communication, for it takes more energy to communicate than to copulate. Love is not possessive, for it has no need when two people are completely wrapped up in each other. 

Love is not diminished because attractiveness disappears with age, and even though flaws that were hidden by youth become manifest, the relationship only becomes sweeter like wine left to age in a cellar. Love is not bitter or jealous. It is not anger and strife. Love never intimidates, never produces fear. It does not nag or possess self-righteousness. It does not superimpose personal viewpoints. It cannot be confused or misdirected. It is not immature or petty. It is not a bitter pill to be swallowed. True love never fails. When our true love is absent, he or she leaves for us a beautiful fragrance of memories, imprinting on our minds an aroma far sweeter than anything else we can imagine.  

We are never tempted to wander, but to anticipate with bated breath our loved one’s return. The mutual trust of true love is stronger than tyranny, interrupted not by war, and exquisite pleasure in peace. Love scoffs at jealousy, cringes at pride, laughs at competition, never uses or abuses, and crushes the antics of the suave and sly deceiver. It is utter respect tinged with awe. It is admiration and deference. It is private, yet intimate. It is virtue dependent, yet produces phenomenal freedom. Love is beautiful and it is free. All in all, true love is a long conversation that always seems far too short….♥