As a wife, mother, stepmom and daughter, I’ve learned that love comes in various forms and fashions, and it’s rarely a feeling that you experience by itself. Because with love comes…
Empathy
When people you love are rejected, let down or hurt, you are capable of feeling that pain through them.
Intensity
Love comes with highs and lows. You can feel the most intense joy you’ve ever felt, then turn around and feel the sharpest, most significant sorrow. Become a parent and it’s intensified a million times over.
Pain
The people you love the most are often the people who can hurt you the deepest, make you cry the hardest, and make you feel emotions you never thought you could feel before.
Passion
When trying to provide for your family, you do all you can to make it happen. You strive to find that better job, you call everyone you can to get what is needed to put something in motion, you ask for help, and you don’t stop until you get what you desire. Read that again. You do not stop.
Sacrifice
You know true love when you find yourself sacrificing your own happiness.
Sadness
There are times in a romantic relationship where things get heavy. Love isn’t always enough. It’s necessary to keep things afloat, but it isn’t enough to bring each other what you really need. It can be defeating.
Truth
The truest of loves holds no boundaries. We show our truest selves to those we love the most, good or bad, happy or sad, whole or broken.
