Sometimes love seems like the most complicated thing in the world. It's wonderful and terrible, beautiful and soul-crushing, sweet and bitter. Hearts are broken and healed through love, and romantic relationships can sometimes be so complicated and miserable that people give up on them entirely.
But love is actually very simple. It's when we forget to love that things get hard.
Love means different things to different people. Some equate it with possession or control. They may believe they are entitled to certain privileges, but love cannot be forced. It can only be freely offered.
Arguments and fights are all too common in relationships. We hurt the ones we love because they are close enough to feel the effects of our every dysfunction. As we seek to heal old wounds and prevent new ones from forming, we become living gateways through which love enters the world.
Choosing to love is a courageous and vulnerable act that opens us to injury. When a doorway to love opens, it welcomes an entire person, not just their best attributes. When a relationship ends, love sometimes ends with it. But more often it continues in a different form.
Imagine a world without love, then imagine a world where love is all there is. Which world are you working to create?
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