WHAT IS TRUE LOVE?
What is true love? Love is more than an emotion. It’s more than that fluttery feeling in our stomachs when we’re around a certain person. Love is a willful action — a deliberate choice we make — even when the other person doesn’t make it easy. True love is revealed more in our actions than in our words. Anyone can say, “I love you,” but those words are proven — or disproven — by the way we behave toward that person. When people talk about “falling in love,” what they’re usually describing is the emotion of love. Some people love being in love. They love the excitement, the butterflies, the way they feel when they’re around the person they’re “crushing on.” They love how they’re treated and how special they feel in those early stages. And if we’re honest, most of us put our best foot forward at the beginning of a relationship. We’re careful. We’re patient. We’re thoughtful. We don’t want to lose that “special someone.” But when dating turns into marriage, things get real — quickly. ...
