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The True Power of Love

Take a look at what I believe love is all about.

   Being in love isn’t always fun. I mean, of course it is when everything is good and easy. Especially in the honeymoon stage when everything is new and exciting. But love is also about sacrifice. It’s about sacrificing what you might want for what makes the one you love happy. I’m not talking about letting him pick what movie you watch on movie night or what restaurant you go to for date night…although that is sacrifice as well. I’m talking about when it comes down to the wire. When things really matter. When things start getting serious. When you’re in love with someone, you’re on this constant high. Together, facing on the world seems like such a simple task because after all, two is better than one.
    But what happens when what makes one person happy isn’t the same thing that brings happiness to the other person? This is when true love is put to the test. This could mean moving somewhere new and unfamiliar because your partner’s job is stationed somewhere else, or it might even mean finally giving in to buying that puppy, even though that subjects you to taking an Allegra every morning when you wake up. And sometimes, things aren’t that simple.
Sometimes sacrificing yourself for love means living without that person. I was once in a long-distance relationship in college where I was only able to see my boyfriend a few times a month. We were high school sweethearts that thought our love could take us through college. It took me 2 and half years to realize just how much I loved him when he broke up with me late one Thursday night. He told me the long-distance relationship was wearing on him and he knew he would be happier if we broke up. Naturally, I was devastated. Between crying, begging him to rethink the situation and trying to convince myself I hated him, I had some sort of revelation: all I wanted was for him to be happy.
    It took some time and though I still feel the pain of letting him go, I knew then and I know now that if he found happiness without me then that’s all I needed to be happy. It proves that love really does conquer all.

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