What is true love? Is it the passion burning in your heart? Or is it the pain you feel when the other cries? Is it the wave of joy you feel inside when you first kiss? Or is it the happiness you share when your significant other succeeds? Is true love sharing happy days and moments? Or is it sacrificing your time to take care of each other when sickness strikes, when is it asked of you to deprive yourself of sleep to run errands in the middle of the night? What is love, what is it really? 1
Society has materialized love, in the sense that they’ve taken away the deepness, the commitment that true love is really made of. As divorce rates rise, people wonder why. The reason forever has been decreased to five years at a time, is that people no longer look for lasting qualities. They thrive on passion, on feeling. 2
Love, perpetual love, is not a feeling, it’s not passion. The flame of passion will eventually die, and your feelings never stay the same. It’s when the wind of life blows out the flame and blows the feelings of “love” to another dimension, that people realize that the one they have isn’t the one they want to be with. Their feelings overrode their logic, and it’s after the outer crust of what they thought was true love disintegrates that they see for the first time what their love lacks. Commitment.3
Marriage was meant to be forever. Vows say: Till death do you part. That’s powerful. You’re promising your life to this one person until death, until the day that you die. To keep yourself true to those vows you must base your love on commitment. Passion can get you through the good times, but it’s the bad times that show who you really are, what your love is really made of. It’s only the commitment to stay with each other that keeps couples together through the tough, trying times of life, which come to everybody at some point in a relationship.4
True love is the commitment that stays strong even when the storms of life threaten to tear down everything around you, the commitment that lasts forever.5
What do you think? (Honestly)
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Awww this is so sweet. I agree with everything that you said and I think this is a very moving piece that is beautifully written. It is a shame that there isn't a lot of true love these days, but it does exist sometimes for those who are lucky enough to find it.
~Joann
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I like this... a lot. The lack of love, the divorce thing, about society, it's so true... I've even experienced the results of divorce as a kid myself.
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Aww..that's so sad. Divorce is a horrible thing, and my heart goes out to any person that has to go through something like that. If you ever want to talk to somebody about anything I'm always here.
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Thanks.
And the only reason the comment was so short is because I accidentally pressed the submit button before I was done, and I didn't feel like adding another one. 
Anyway... It really is so great! I love it so much. Not just because of the bit about divorce, but it's just so good and so true.
Love, Hope, and The Hay List,
Hannah
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I LOVE THE LAST SENTENCE!!! No wait... Scratch that... I love it all!!!! :]]]] It's so great! And sweet. And... almost saddish. And adorable (in a good, mature way XD)
Love it.
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Cas
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