Could This be True Love?

So you’ve finally come across the love of your life; your soul mate.  You thought this day would never come.  It’s a day you’ve been hoping and wishing and dreaming of, forever.  Out of nowhere, you find yourself involved with someone who it seems you’ve known forever even though you’ve just met.  Could this be true love?  Could this be the person who has entered your dreams as you tossed and turned deep into the night?  A chance meeting has allowed you to cross paths and begin a journey down the same path.  Everything is going great and you can’t wait to introduce this person to all your family members and especially to your girls/boys. 

Life should be complete now.  You have your family who you think love and respect and even adore you.  And now your prayers have been answered as you finally have someone in your life who loves and cares about you, for you.  You know that you have reached a point in your life where you are growing.  Where things will never be the same.  Where time has allowed you to experience yet another lesson in life.  At first it seems like your days of sadness are a thing of the past.  Your family life and personal life have met and are now blending together smoothly. 

Time goes on and the months are rolling right on by.  Your family is really shocked that your relationship has lasted this long.  What could she/he possibly see in you?  They know your history and this highly educated, strong willed, independent woman/man is still putting up with you?  Perhaps you have found true love?  I mean, you used to run the streets with your girls/boys and come home when you felt like it.  You used to hang out in the clubs and flirt with women/men cause you could.  Now they barely see you and when they do, she’s/he’s with you. 

You can’t believe it yourself.  How in the world did this happen to me?  I wasn’t even trying to settle down, you say to yourself.  All you do is think of this person.  Could this be true love?  Your friends and family notice that they’re seeing less and less of you.  And when they do see you, you don’t seem like the same person they’ve known.  Just a year ago you were still getting into trouble and living out the family legacy.  Now you appear to be more calmer, more gentler, more less careless.   They don’t like this new you. 

It’s hurting you cause your family is all you’ve ever known.  They’ve treated you questionably in the past, but now it’s apparant that they have a problem with you.  But you’re so happy right now and they know it.  Actually, you’re too happy.  You’ve longed for peace in your life for so long and when you’re with your new love, that’s all you feel.  It’s such a glorious feeling.  But your family misses you.  You’re the life of the party and now things are boring.  Things are uneventful cause you’re not up to your old antics.  They don’t have anything excitingly negative to talk about now that you have gone straight. 

Love will conquer all.  And all is what you need conquering.  Your family will be fine without you.  The growth that they will see in you because you have distanced yourself will make them proud even if they don’t want to be.  When love comes, you will know it.  When love comes, embrace it.  When love comes, become it.  When you truly accept love, your life will be what it is meant to be.