How to Know True Love

How do you know if a loving relationship is real love or merely an infatuation based on some physical attraction? This article may help you make a decision whether your loving relationship is real love or just a fascination.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A partner
• A relationship

Figure It Out

1. Figuring out why you enjoy being with your partner can go a long way in determining if this is true love or just an infatuation. One needs to examine if her partner makes her feel giddy and excited about spending time with them, or is the time you spend together mediocre at best.

2. Question how your partner makes you feel. In a true love relationship, you look forward to spending time with this person and know you cannot consume him. Infatuation relationships usually involve at least one person wanting to consume the other person, demanding all of his time and attention so he cannot have friends or perform his work.

3. Supporting one other is easy in a true love relationship but it gets shaky in an infatuation relationship. True love relationships have partners who compromise while infatuation relationships usually consist of one half of the couple doing all the compromising.

4. Being comfortable in all areas is a sign of true love but, in infatuation relationships, something is missing. Is the relationship a total relationship where you support each other in all ways in the bedroom as well as outside the bedroom? True love encompasses all activities for the couple; they are the ones who hold hands in public as well as in the bedroom. In an infatuation relationship, it doesn't seem that all the needs are satisfied for the couple in all of these areas.

5. Having clear, open, honest communication is part of true love but in infatuation, it simply is not present. The couple who is in true love can have peaceful silences as well as heated debates and it's fine either way. The infatuated couple does not have the ease of open, honest communication. Usually one or both of them is simply too scared to admit to honest feelings.

Tips & Warnings

• True love comes with time; it is not at first sight. Lust is often called love at first sight.

[tundranut]

on 4/17/2009 How to Know True Love is a very well written article. Thanks. 5*

[johnnyutah]

on 4/17/2009 well written article about true love...5**

[Sondrac]

on 4/15/2009 Great article and very well written. 5* and rec