How to Know True Love: What Exactly Does Your Spouse Need on This?

“Nobody can define what exactly true love is. Some believe in it and many others don't. If somebody tries to define it, there will be many agreements and disagreements. Especially since nowadays marriages don't even last long anymore which encourages many to stay single. Faith and understanding in relationships is what many lack because it seems we've forgotten nothing and no one is perfect.”

― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable
There are many singles that fantasize about love without knowing that true love goes beyond emotions. Although the feelings are pleasurable, yet it calls for commitment. It is good to be loved and feel loved! However, you need for how to know true love is crucial.
In other words, what are those things that will help you know if someone is true love.

Love is a heart work. It is the fusion of two hearts to pursue a common goal in spite of differences in race, level of literacy, age, and so on. It transcends emotions. Emotions may go but only commitment remains.

Heart-to-heart bonding of two persons in a marital relationship is the fulcrum of intimacy. Intimacy means the bonding of two hearts in true love, or the sharing of mutual affection.

As regard how to know true love, you must have it at the back of your mind that intimacy is a function of the following elements:

1. Trust
2. Openness
3. Honesty
4. Time
5. Sacrifice.

You would realize that none of the above elements is dependent on human feelings that we often experience when we are in love. You may have the feelings without them; but you can’t have them without true love.

In essence, the sensations you have when you come across a new friend, precisely an opposite sex to whom you are attracted, are the feelings being referred to in this context. This experience is often called falling in love. the following tells of falling in love.

• You always desire to see him or her.
• You want to hold his or her hand as you take a walk together.
• You seem to be day-dreaming about the lady/guy.
• He or she fills your thoughts.
• You are not tired of giving him a call, may be four times in day.
• You can just afford not to send an SMS to the person in a single day.
• You don’t feel like leaving him or her after each visit to his or her house.
• You wish that the day of marriage come quickly so that you can forever be with the man/woman who has won your heart!

These and many more dominate your love relationship, starting from barely a day or a week after you meet. In all these, there is no certainty of the aforementioned elements of true love.

In most relationships, these feelings wane in intensity over time. All the hormones working in the brain begin to subside. Then, the lovers begin to face the realities of life.

It is worth stating that if majority of couples know how to keep that flame of true love with respect to the 5 factors stated above, they will continue to enjoy each other’s presence. So, it is important to know that a lasting relationship is only worked out with a sense of commitment, though it takes time. Enjoy the feelings; keep the feelings fresh, but then look for commitment attitude in your potential spouse. That’s how to know true love.