A lot people believe that love is the passionate feeling that you have for another person. That passionate, romantic love fades away after 1 or 2 years together and is replaced by compassionate love. Aside from that, familiarity breeds contempt - some people start to get bored with their partner.
Do you think that your parents love you? Don't you think you get on their nerves a little bit? That they know you so well that they might be bored with you? Yet they still love you. That is love and can be applied for relationships between a man and a woman.
It seems like you're settling for her. "I'm just with her because, why not, and she has a lot more emotional stock in the relationship than I do." How would you like it if someone you really loved said that about you? You cannot love someone if you don't respect them. |