Monday, May 10, 2010

Training to love

If you want the benefits of a deeply committed and loving relationship, then you have to be willing to put in the effort to make it happen.

Just like as preparing for a marathon, you need to follow a daily training regimen, or else you won't finish the race. Train by working on communication skills, by learning to give to your partner, by building trust, by expressing your love in word and deed.

How to create a love that succeeds in breaking down the barriers of ego and selfishness to as enable one another to reach genuine intimacy ?

Real love is not synonymous with losing control or going crazy. In real love you don't lose yourself and in real love you can live without the other person.

What is love?

In Hebrew the word for love is "ahava." The root word of ahava is hav, which means to give. Love is the constant choice to give to another. Love is about taking a quantum leap from being self-centered to other-centered.

A concept from John F. Kennedy is "to ask not what my partner can do for me but ask what I can do for my partner." This is how we create genuine, deep love.

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