What is Being in Love?
by Love may find you on numerous occasions in your lifetime. There are many levels of love and being in love. Most of us have had our first love, and lost it. Few of us have found our true love and kept it.
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Being in love is an amazing feeling of selflessness, excitement and wonder. The feelings of being in love may change over time, as a person matures, or a couple grows. Either way, the feelings are and can be overwhelming, causing one to lose them selves in the romance of it all or the complications of an evolving relationship.
When you are truly in love with someone, you tend to love with your whole heart, giving nothing less than all you have to give. But, being in love with someone doesn’t necessarily mean that they are in love with you. Anyone can say the words, “I love you”, and anyone can say, “I’m in love with you.” But, it’s the actions that will speak louder than the words that roll so easily and freely off one’s tongue.
Occasionally you may find yourself swept away by fiery passion and intimacy in your relationship, and utter the words, “I’m in love with you.” But, do you truly mean the words you speak? Or is it the heat of the moment that causes one to spew out such sweet nothings?
Being in love gives one re-affirmation of the person they are and the person they have the potential to be. It can make you feel important, attractive and as if your life has new meaning. The question to ask your self is: Is being in love with someone satisfying a general need of companionship and personal fulfillment? Or is it an obsession with an idea of what a relationship should hold?
Being in love can sometimes be a tug of war. It’s said that what does not break you will only make you stronger. Is this a true element of being in love?
A relationship can continue to grow between two people, and with every gut wrenching tear and heartfelt apology may only continue to grow stronger. Being in love is complicated, unpredictable, and perplexing. Through each other, a couple will learn that love has the ability to grow from the minutest gesture into the most magnificent one.
Love will start as a helpless seed, planted – and in the oddest of ways be nourished and cared for and protected by the determination of either one or both people involved. True love will continue to reveal itself in many ways over time.
And in time, being in love, having the opportunity to experience such emotions and feelings, will make each one involved braver, stronger, and give them hope and courage to face insurmountable tasks, either alone or separately. It will teach you to be tolerant and accepting, to be silly and light-hearted, but also to be forgiving and understanding.
Being in love is an uncertainty. But then again, so is everything else in life.
It is said, “Love is all we have. The only way that each can help the other.”
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