Love?What is it?

Love is not any one thing. It means different things to different people. People show love in different ways and people perceive love in different ways. Generally people perceive love easily when it is show in some way they interpret as love and this way is generally the way the person themselves shows love.

When similar types of people get together, love flows smoothly. The challenge is when different types of people are together. Then it takes work. It helps a bit, if people are self aware and have verbal skills to explain what they feel and why and how they are responding. But unfortunately this does not work with people with poor self awareness and verbal skills. They are of the school that love just ought to be, should not be defined, can’t be explained or indeed the very act of defining it, kills it. To them love is spontaneous and love is not a conscious decision. Some even see commitment as an end to love, not the beginning.

The greatest act of love is probably getting to know how other people define love and showing them love in the way they understand it, but its debatable whether anybody can act so contrary to their natural style on an ongoing basis. Read more of this post