http://www.mycupidonline.com/what-is-true-love.html What is true love? This is the age old question, but finding out what is true love is purely a matter of the heart, not one that can be answered by mere words. en-us Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:13:58 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:13:58 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 Do you know what is true love? If you do then you have felt it before, experienced the pleasure and the pain that is true love, and lived to see another day. If you know what is true love than you could not have read it in a book and gotten the full effect of it's power, for there is no comparison to actually feeling it yourself. Sure you can get an idea of what is true love, but it will inevitably fall short of the real thing and when you do finally feel love, it will come on like a ton of bricks because all that you had read or heard about it will be nothing like the real thing. What is true love to you? When you find true love, you find in another person all of those traits that you value. In addition, true love will come from someone who can satisfy your needs. We often find compatible mates that we may have a long relationship with, but if they failed it is most likely because one of you were not getting all of your needs met by the other person. Your past relationships might have been with very good people, people that you enjoyed spending time with, but they just could not meet the needs that you have. We all have different and varying needs and we find out what is true love when we find that special person that actually fulfills our needs in a relationship. Another thing that many people do not put enough emphasis on is the fact that the best base for lasting and fulfilling love is friendship, not just a simple attraction. Attractions can fade with time, as does the passion, it may stick around forever, but it will not always have the same intensity as it did at the beginning and so there must be something even more powerful at the heart of the relationship if it is to survive the test of time. And that is the goal for most of us, that is to have a relationship that will support us throughout our lives, with someone that we can grow old with and share all of the good things in life with. As we can see, and what most of us know deep down is this - finding out what is true love is a a different journey for all of us. Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:13:58 EST