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THE MISCONCEPTION OF LOVE

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  • Sep 24, 2017
  • 2 min read

Relationships and marriages are failing because a lot of people enter it with a lot of misconceptions probably conceived from watching movies and reading books!

So they have a pre-conceived idea of what LOVE truly is, based on high EXPECTATIONS and not high RESPONSIBILITIES.

Let me explain:

Love might be impatient most times;

Love sometimes mightn't appear benevolent;

Love might be arrogant;

Love at times remember wrongs done to it;

Love isn't always sweet;

Love isn't always smooth sailing;

Love at times is unjust;

Love sometimes don't believe the lyrics any more;

Love might at times seem selfish;

Love might be sensitive and touchy;

Love can be heady;

Love at times 'can't take it any more';

Love can fail!

We have been oriented to enter relationships with some expectations of how we should be treated in it and that is a recipe of failure. Am not being antagonist of marriage, no, far it be from me!

But the right attitude to enter marriage with, is the attitude of giving not expecting. You enter the relationship with a high sense of responsibility to your spouse.

That's what I mean by GIVING and not expecting. A marriage made in heaven is one where both spouses are GIVERS thus they become RECEIVERS as well.

A SYMBIOTIC relationship will outlast its participants. A PARASITIC one will die a natural death, even before it begins.

A Symbiotic Love is characterised by the following:

It endures long and is,

Patient and kind;

This Love is never envious nor boils over with jealousy,

Its never boastful or vainglorious,

I does not display itself haughtily.

It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride);

Definitely not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.

Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.

Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].

This LOVE NEVER FAILS [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].

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