Love is a thing of comfort. Since time immemorial, humans have had a fundamental need for love, which leads us to form relationships. We never outgrow the need for others because it is only in human relationships that we can engage in mutual self-disclosure and consensual respect.
When there is intimacy in the relationship and nurture as well, we call that love. People who form stable love relationships are those who can balance the giving of affection, care and nurture with their own need for receiving them in return.
While things never satisfy permanently, opening ourselves to another and receiving the other unconditionally can. Only persons can engage in this reciprocity, affirming and being affirmed by one another. I think the young may learn to transcend mistrust if they come to understand that in the communion with another, one's individuality remains intact and is respected, even bolstered.
Relationships shape our identities. We are not so much atomistic individuals as beings in relationships. One becomes whole in relationships; and in an exclusive love relationship between a man and a woman, one becomes fully whole.
~LOVING U!~
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