Love is... a best friend. Someone you can see yourself growing old with and never getting sick of. Okay, you might get sick of dirty laundry on the floor. You might get sick of dishes stacked in the kitchen. What is that stuff anyway? Every day life that just needs a little kindness and organization. You don't love someone because they are clean. You don't love someone because they have it together in the financial department. You love someone because you like to be with them. To stay up all night and talk or play games. Love is seeing that someone has flaws, and loving them beyond the flaws. Love is allowing someone see YOUR flaws and trusting that they will love you in spite of them.
Love is building a solid friendship. If you are with someone right now... I'm hoping your relationship started out as friendship. Laughter, fun, talking about anything and everything. Waking up with them as your first thought in the morning and going to sleep with them on your mind at night.
Let's really look at friendship. Friendship is when you desire what is best for the other person. It shares mutual compassion and understanding. Friendship holds honesty high on it's list of values. Friendship involves mutual trust without the fear of being judged. It is a relationship with equal give and take.
C.S Lewis in "The Four Loves" wrote - "To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue."
Is your relationship built on solid friendship? A friendship that can weather all storms in life? Are you judging your partner on what he or she does for you? What if you tweak your way of looking at your relationship and treat your partner as your best friend? What if you start to think about what you can do for your partner, rather than what they can do for you?
Thanks for reading! ~ Dawn
Love it and you my dear friend!
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