Excerpted from Woman of Excellence: Not Without a Struggle, pg. 109:
Part of a conversation I had with my spouse:
“I have put up with the drinking all these years, put up with the beatings, running to the bank almost daily to cover checks he had written to keep them from bouncing…” I asked when would my time come for happiness with him, or was it ever coming? He stared.
What is true love?
There are many kinds of real love such as love for child, parents, siblings, other family members, love of country, love of God and the list goes on. Since we are approaching Valentine’s Day, let’s look at some ways to define love between couples in a romantic relationship.
Love is a strong feeling for the opposite side of the couple. When things go wrong as they sometimes do, you try to work things out and make things right where both should end with a celebration of thanksgiving – where both are thankful for each others thoughtfulness toward the other. Also love is having compassion for each other, speaking compassionate to the other and about the other.
Love is longing for each other, the desire for each other’s company, closeness and desire to be alone with each other spending quality time together and marriage.
Love is trust, sacred, oneness, unconditional, committed to each other and show favorable actions toward the other.
Love does not hurt!
I have pages of quotes that my daughter is going to publish that my parents (her grandparents) said. One of my favorite quotes is something my Mom said every single day. If someone was going back and forth or undecided about something, Mom would say:
Let God fix it, pray and let Him have his way.
It would always end with examples, and finally “O’ He’ll fix it!” It is so special because I found out the hard way, if you try to fix some things instead of letting God fix them, or lead you and you follow, you have a tendency to mess up and prolong the fix—especially if you are trying to get even with someone.
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