Love Lights up the fire but may not be enough to keep it burning.
At the foundation of a love relationship is the perception of similarity/compliment between two different minds. No matter how aligned we perceived our minds to be on the surface, we are still different people.
We are different in our genetic makeups, our cultures, our backgrounds and upbringings and so on. Though love lit up our lives and it seems like nothing can go wrong. But with love comes the burden of expectations. Expectations are the root of problems in most troubled relationships.
Expectations of the other partner to always think like us, to know when and how to be there for us without even asking (since our minds are in sync, right?). This expectations and more lead to the feeling of frustration, disappointment, resentments and more negative feelings.
The solution is the acknowledgment and understanding of the fact that we are two different people that fall in love and share some common interests but not all. This understanding makes us subdue (if not immuned to) those thoughts and behaviours that trigger us into resentments and other destructive feelings.
When the going is good, every couple will seem like the best couple ever. But situations will always come that will want to trigger those bad thoughts and habits we have been hiding inside us. All of a sudden, the lovely couple become strangers and sometimes bitter enemies despite the love.
So we need a lot of emotional and mental resistant and capabilities to make a love relationships work out and last long. It is even better because working to make a love relationship better is us working to make ourselves better persons mentally and emotionally.
Love is never enough. The above mentioned qualities make you to be kind, gentle to your partner and not take rash decisions even in a negative emotional situations which are inevitable.
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