Everyone dreams of romantic love… the realities of love are often far different than what we may wish for in our dreams though.
Love in the real world requires completely ridding ourselves of any expectation of perfection.
Here are just a few things true love really needs to survive.
Understanding
Patience
Forgiveness
The ability to empathsize.
The ability to communicate.
The ability to teach your partner.
The ability to learn from your partner.
And of course, true attraction and chemestry, which helps to make all these things easier.
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Good advice on love, living and the things that matter!
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Thank you, and thanks for visiting. 🙂
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Astute, JoAnn, as your advice promotes genuine interaction, a way to maximize the benefits of a relationship.
Expecting “perfection” is truly a selfish act, merely assessing how someone stacks up to your imagined checklist. It’s a purely solitary equation. Any wonder that pursuing it leaves one utterly alone?
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Yes. Lol, I always think it’s kinda odd when someone rattles off their requirements for a date… or a mate… like it was a grocery list instead of an actual real person.
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Sure, JoAnn. We all have expectation and hopes, obviously, but best they remain notes, not an instruction manual!
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Right 🙂
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Expecting perfection in any context will only lead to disappointment I think.
The items on your list would make any human interaction a good one.
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Yes… in a perfect world 🙂
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