What I've Learned About LOVE (another archive)

Please allow me to impart the following wisdom on all you love birds out there…if you got someone and you really and truly love them, never let them go. Forgive them all the little things that they do that you don’t like because tomorrow is a new day and those little things won’t matter anymore. But be sure not to take for granted the little things they do to try and make you happy, in their own way, because when it’s all said and done, it will be those small gestures of love that you cannot forget. The problem with true love is you probably didn’t even know that’s what it was until it’s gone. So try a little harder and give a little more and never give up easily or without a fight. Above all else, do not make a mistake that you can never take back because it will haunt you forever, I can promise you this. And once it’s too late, it’s too late. All the love in the world can not repair the damage you can inflict in a single word, phrase, or conversation. When you change yourself and your ways for the sake of a relationship with another person, that is when you will know you have found the person that you were destined to be with. It won’t be because you can see yourself getting old and gray. It will be about your behavior and the day that you wake up and realize that the thought of living the rest of your life without that person makes you sick and that you cannot give your heart, mind, body or soul to someone new. It will be that you cannot even enjoy a conversation or heaven forbid meaningless sex because you knew how it felt to be loved. It will be the knowledge that you really did find that one person put there that loves you for you and that no one can replace those feelings in your heart. I don’t know how else to describe it other than to say it’s just different and you don’t know it until its not there anymore. Everyone deserves to be treated with love, respect and kindness and if you let your baby go and they find someone else to do that for them, then you just lost them. That person may never replace you in their heart but you better believe that they will move on and share themselves with someone else and there is not a damned thing you can do about it! I know that no one will take my advice, but hopefully, I can save one relationship or least plant a seed in your mind that will grow into something beautiful and happy for someone one day. Peace, Dara Beth