I feel great coming back after many months of long absence. It‘s quite an eye delight seeing good friends sharing valuable experiences & lessons.
Anyways, about a month ago i wrote an aritcle on relationship. The theme of it was really about how much love is needed (that is, if love is all that is needed). Shortly after that, i got quite alot of opinions from friends & i remember one telling me that love is all that is needed to keep a relationship going. Well as much as my sentiment differ from hers, i understood were that view was coming from. But hey, you know how we do it. Lets see and hear from those who share thesame sentiment with my friend or entirely different one. Keep your contribution rolling. Peace!

love is an emotion, once its there it is there, it is an emotion that really isn't predicated on action (to feel it for someone)

we feel love,,great, fine

but being in a relationship involves action and 'work',, conditions separate from love

so ID say, love isn't all we need,,, we also need compatible values and standards and boundaries

we need respect and trust and loyalty


we can love people without ever living with them and even living apart from them for periods of time,, but to have a 'relationship' where there is an attempt at combining lives,,, much more is needed than an emotion,,

Truly loving someone means you don't try to change them, instead love them for who they are and accept them and everything about them, incl 'flaws'. Meaning you also respect them.
When this is mutual, I believe love is all that's needed. Of course this is an ideal situation which is rarely the case. Most of us still have too many issues to work out.

No, sometimes love isn't enough and it can even wreck a relationship. I've had women falling for me and then backing off for various reasons. Personally though, I'm loyal and will keep trying to make a relationship work unless it gets to the point that it's just not worth it anymore.

That is quite an enlightement from you guys! Like a house, love could be viewed as the roof but a house is not just made of just roof. It has walls, floors, doors & windows among other things. If the desire is to make the relationship last, them we must consider the wall of friendship & communication, the floor of commitment & tolerance, the window of sincerity & respect & the door of trust. But hey guys, keep your contributions rolling. Peace!

poetically put,, ty