Love is beautiful, love gives, it cares for its object of affection, it seeks to protect, it is sweet…. We can go on and on about how good and wonderful love is, but as we bask in the goodies of love we should not forget that love costs.

Love costs, and for everything we gain in life we loose something.

Depending on who and what we love, the cost and demand that love places on us will vary.

Compromise is a buss word when it comes to love; it simply is give and take.

For us to get to a point where we will enjoy and describe love in all those glowing terms we must have paid the price that love placed on us.

Many a love relationships do not get to the point where the people involved can get the goodies of love, why? Because they get so blinded with the goodies love will give to them. Forgetting the object of love and focusing on themselves.

They just expect to receive, to be cared for, to be protected and all that, while forgetting that the person offering the protection, care and so on also have needs too that yearns to be met as much as they do.

This one sided love can go on for a while especially at the beginning before it begins to wax cold and love begins to sip away and die.

In some other cases the people involved in the love relationship starts out giving and paying the price of love but after a while they start becoming self conscious and self absorbed maybe because their expectations are not being met. They lose sight of the price they have to pay and get discouraged. They start expecting to receive only and that leads to love that dies off after a while.

For love to last we should know that love cost and as long as all involved in a love relationship willingly pay the price love will last very very long.

We should also evaluate our expectations and make sure they reflect reality, so that we do not make it impossible for the other person to pay by giving them an unrealistic price.

When entering a love relationship that you want to last long, please focus on giving. Aim at seeing the other person growing and becoming better. As you keep sowing this seed you will begin to reap it in multiple from the other person and you will have a wonderful long lasting love relationship.

For love to last understand that love cost, strive to pay the price of love. Even when the other person is not paying, don’t give up because the law of sowing and reaping will work in you favor if you stick to it long enough.

After a while they will turn around and you will enjoy a long lasting love and you will have the added pleasure of knowing that you hung in there to make it work.

Remember that only one person can teach how to love perfectly if you accept his love and let Him love you, that person is Jesus Christ. The bible will help you get to know Him, so find one and start reading now.