Quote Originally Posted by Yunus Dogus
Real love as Legio rightly says is about partnership and having a long lived relationship with another human being - despite all their idiosyncricies (sp?)

And for that you can take all the romantic fog (flowers and singing under windows and generally acting like a fool) out of your eyes and work hard on compromise, sacrifice, equality, giving and recieving.

real love - is a deeper thing
having dinner ready when your partners working all week,
tidying up despite you feeling that you should be able to live like a pig, holding them when they are frietened - despite if you think the fear is rational or not,
protecting them from the stupidity of others and your own,
smiling for them even when you feel like crying,
learning not to pee all over the toilet floor - cause someones gunna have to clean it up - probably you (same goes for skid marks),
having to visit her family when you had a M2TW mega session planned - and smiling about it,
learning that you (singular) no longer exists - there is only you (pleural) now

theres no obsession clouded vision
its loving someone despite the surficial things of life - like physical appearance, wealth/poverty , bodily excretions, etc etc - in real love none of this matters

its never pretty

its not exciting

alot of times its not even fun

this from a man who is happily married - happy because both of us have given up any delusions about what society tells us love is supposed to be and concentrated on one single idea - its me and her forever - sickness or health, young or old, wealthy or poor - the world and its skindeep BS are only relevent to the extent of how it impacts on our life together
Ah, the wisdom of the married man

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You forgot to add: "Watching "Beauty and the Nerd" with her, pretending you like the program, instead of playing M2TW". GAH!! Television makers! Put them on the stake and burn them ! GAH ! On the other hand, she has to sacrifice herself too sometimes: go out twice a week at 7.00 AM running with your husband who for once remembered something you said: "I am too fat, I want to exercise. We should do some sport together" That'll teach her! Beauty and the Nerd. GAH !