Immature and inexperienced persons often enter personal commitments that they later find impossible to honor. Moonlight, music, and romance go to their heads, and they make a promise of love that they later find themselves unable to live with. Such people abandon the commitment made, head for the courts, and proceed recklessly toward a new love relationship without ever challenging their personal ingenuity, developing their resources, or testing their coping abilities. Love will work if we work at it, but people today fail to work at giving love a chance, and wise individuals select carefully before investing such a sacred commodity in a lifelong commitment.
The Meaning of Genuine Love
By Harold Hisona
Published: January 23, 2010
We have emphasized that romance is a needed commodity in marriages today, but love means far more that just the feelings expressed in romantic affection, as important as they are. Dr. Karl Menninger, a great Christian psychiatrist, expressed it this way: “We do not fall into love; rather we grow into love.” Love is marriage matures as a couple applies the principle of love in everyday life. Genuine love, then, goes beyond the feelings of love and becomes a principle that must be put into action. We must not only expect to be treated with love and consideration, by we must also act with love and consideration.