Hier heb ik voor mij een perfecte beschrijving van echte liefde, geschreven door iemand van een ander forum waar ik actief in ben. Ik moest het toch echt even hier neerzetten, misschien heeft iemand er ook nog wat aan? Het onderwerp was: "I don't believe in love".

Gotta jump on board with this one, I have to say that I don't believe in love, at least not romantic love.

Hollywood has a lot to answer for. People seem to expect everlasting attraction, a constant sense of happiness and bliss when they fall in love. I think most people who've been in a long term relationship know differently, even if they don't admit it. It gets less exciting as time goes on, until it's barely there. That's why you need to be excellent friends for a long term relationship to work, in the end that's mainly what it boils down to.

Real love is simply caring enough about the other person to stick by them through thick and thin. It's not nice, or romantic. It's not the big gestures three or four times a year, but the small things every day. If you expect fireworks and candlelit dinners for the rest of your life, you're going to be sorely disappointed, and you just might lose someone who loves you in search of greener pastures.

And don't get me started on 'love at first sight.' How can you fall in love with someone you've never talked to? You can barely even begin to guess at their personality, likes and dislikes, morals, habits and opinions by looking at someone. It's purely physical. This is not any type of basis for love, it's lust, pure and simple.

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