What else does it take to experience harmonious, fulfilling
relationships? Is Love alone enough?

Love is great, yet it in my opinion is not enough to make a relationship
last.

Trust to me is the most important thing in a Relationship.. If you
consider trust to be an attribute of love, then yes.

Love include compassion, forgiveness, mercy and grace. Love Requires and
Needs sacrifice. Without sacrifice no one is truly compatible on an
intimate level.

Just my thoughts


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Such a great question... TxsGal!
I'm don't think that love alone is enough. For me there needs to be a
few other factors. Trust and integrity are two very important things
that need to exist within a relationship. Also, communication and a
friendship. Good sex helps too!

I agree with LAMom...If you don't have everything such as compassion,
trust, commitment, etc. etc. Love does not seem like enough...

I had someone in my life that I loved very much, but the trust was
broken, and the love did not hold us together...

(((Txs))) It is nice to see you again...You have great posts...I read
them all...You are a wise woman....

Love is enough in the beginning.
'Opposites attract - similars endure'.
Over the long haul, at times compromise, sometimes 90% you and 10% him.
Sometimes the other way around. Depends on how much you're willing to
give. Ya get out of things what ya put into them.
Who really knows? If we had all the answers there'd be no divorces.

I guess it really depends on the definition both parties have of the
term 'Love'.

For me, Love is all encompassing, no attachment, ownership, obligation.

To love freely, without obligation, to accept 'wholistically' the other
person, for their individuality, their perspectives, beliefs, all of
them as is.

I don't see a need to define the other, to classify them, to box and
label them. I trust with innocence, and faith, I accept with innocence
and faith, I don't see relationships as hard work.

And I guess because people are human, we are different, we do make
mistakes, we get it wrong, it works for me to just Love them anyway.

And when it is uncomfortable, when there are constant states of flux, of
challenge and struggle, when it is not appropriate to either of us to
continue a relationship, no bitterness, perhaps a poignant
disappointment,I just Love them anyway, for the uniqueness and the
blessings they brought me,

I see Love as trust, respect, acknowledgement, all of it.

For me LOVE has different levels.
The lesser levels are the loves that come & go in my life.
People that I will always have a special feeling for, but can allow them
to move in & out of my sphere of existance.

TRUE SOULMATE LOVE, covers all. There can be problems that would rip
other loves apart, you chose to work thru. A love that reaches beyond
the grave, beyond the universe. A love that endures thru all levels of
time. The LOVE you would die to keep & tears your heart out when you
can't. This is the type of LOVE that is enough; FOR IT IS ALL.

I do agree with each of you for I do not think that Love alone is enough
to keep a relationship together. There is alot more involved and yes
trust is a must as well as understanding, compassion, humor, respect,
and very important is communcation for with out the ablility to talk
things out there is no way a relationship will last.

Is Love Enough?

Do you mean is love enough to make a relationship work, then the answer
is no; but that is not what love is about. To love someone, truly,
unconditionally you have to accept them for what they are, who they are,
in spite of their faults, and to truly love means to want that persons
happiness; be it with you or someone else.