What Is True Love?

What Is True Love?

I think we all need this feel good Friday. Because this week with all the chaos going on in this world I want to talk about finding yourself, being alone and yes, even love. No matter what, I still believe in true love. Despite all the horrible dates and even worse men I picked, I still have hope. We have to hold on to hope especially with what is going on in this world.

We've all heard the old saying:

Love is patient, love is kind...

But do you really have a pure heart when you're in love with someone? 

Will you sacrifice your own happiness for theirs? 

Do you truly want them to be happy? 

I remember once when I was speaking to my high school sweetheart's sister and I said all I wanted was her brother's happiness. Even if that meant it was with someone else, even at the expense of my own happiness. I would want to see him happy because he is a good man and he deserves it.

She said to me…”That is the essence of true love. That is the purest form of love. 

The love you have for my brother is what true love should always be...unconditional, with an open heart, and always giving of yourself” 

To a lot of people that is hard. To wish someone happiness when you're not happy? Sacrificing for another? Ha! We live in a "me" world, me first, me, me, me, everyone else behind me. Some people don't even put their children first, let alone their spouse or lovers. 

They can't imagine putting someone's needs above their own.

Love is giving it your all and not expecting anything in return. It's loving someone so much that you will literally do anything for them. Put their needs over yours, and you think of their feelings first. You are even willing to bow out in pursuit of their happiness. It is loving someone with all of your heart even when you know that they are not your forever love and you desperately want them to find that person because you want them to be happy forever. 

When she said that I had never really thought of it that way before. I knew I would always love this man, that he would be in my life one way or another. But did I have the capacity to love in the truest sense of the word...the love the word talks about and teaches you? Agape love?

I guess I do. I learned that no matter if we were together or not, I wanted him in my life. I prayed for his happiness, and that he would find love and peace in his life, with me or without me, it didn't matter. All that mattered was his happiness. 

I have also learned as I became a mother to put my girls' needs over mine since the day they were born. That is easy for a mother...but for another person without anything in return?

 

I have grown and learned so much these last 12 years since my divorce. And yes, I can love unconditionally, I learned to love people for who they are, in their souls, not looking at their faults, as we all have them. Yes, and I have learned what true love actually means. To love someone else with a pure heart.

So today my friends, I am here to tell you to love with a pure heart. Not for what someone can do for you, or what you can get out of it for yourself but just for the love itself, in its purest form. It is then you will know you have arrived in a place of joy and know what true love really is. And in this world we really need more of this kind of love. 

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