A True Love Is...
- A friend
- One who needs a friend
- A lover
- One who needs a lover
- A confidant
- One who needs someone to confide in
- Someone who occasionally reminds you uncannily of your
parents at times although in different forms
- A shoulder to cry on
- Someone who needs a shoulder to cry on
- Your image of heaven includes this person rather
profusely
- You can look back on the history that you created
together and both cry and laugh, hopefully at different
parts
- You are not the same person, instead two separate
entities that can combine into a supreme being
- You plan names for your kids
- Someone with whom you can discuss anything from
menstrual periods to bathroom talk to sexual preferences to
life and death to philosophy to science and back
- When this other person is asleep, you can't help it if
you have a twenty page paper do the next morning, you just
want to put the universe on hold and watch them.
- They aren't a super model, yet they are the most
beautiful creature that you have ever laid eyes upon, even
after twenty years
- You find yourself thanking God that s/he allowed you to
stumble across this other person
- They can help you see things about yourself that you
haven't seen before
- You help them see things about themselves that they
haven't seen before
- You feel this uncanny sense of completeness whenever you
are around this person
- Each of your separate concerns and victories become a
shared concern and victory
- You love them more than anything else in this entire
world
- When you look down at your hands intertwined, you get a
rush
- When you talk to this person, even on the phone, you
feel butterflies. Especially after several years of knowing
this person.
- You are happy when your partner is happy.
- When you hold your partner, it reminds you of something
special you held as a child - ie a stuffed animal, a pillow
- Your love for this person grows daily
- You've seen your partner at their worst times and the
best times
- They've seen you at your worst times and best times
- You ask yourself, "How did I survive without this person
before now?"
- You desire to be with this person the rest of your life
(not necessarily marriage)
- Your heart tells you it's right
- True love is patient
- True love is classified as delusional
- True love is addictive
- True love waits, (how long, I do NOT know!)
- Your true love can define or destroy your world
- Your true love will not change for you.
- You will not have to change for your true love.
- The eyes of the other is what make it worthwhile, for in
them you can see the boundless love kept just under the
surface.
- Your true love won't leave you.
- The little voice in the back of your head will quiet its
shouting and dire portents, for it will recognize that
he/she is your true love.
- Your true love knows what to say, how to say it, when to
say it, and when not to, to help you along
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