What is love?

[What is Love?]

Immature love says "I love you because I need you." 

Mature love says "I need you because I love you."

-Erich Fromm

Love requires work from both sides. It's as strong as it is vulnerable. You have to work on it each day. You have to truly mean it. Its truly comfortably amazing. 

To look at someone and feel proud to call them yours. 

Through their good and bad days. 

It's in those moments where you can feel It so strong - you could reach out and grab it but you hold back to simply enjoy the moment a little longer while you can.

In the way he respects you.

The way you want them to know the good and the bad about you because you know they won't judge - You want them to know and understand you completely. 

The way he pushes your hair out of the way and pulls you in for a kiss.

The way he makes you feel safe

Its in the way he adds to who you are, the way you want to be even better for him.

The way his hugs & kisses make everything better.

It's also the little things you learn about them that amaze you to have such a man in your life.

Falling asleep in his arms, safely tucked away, listening to his heartbeat.

The man they are now, helps you see and encourage the man he will become.

To know he lets you in, when he kept many others out.

His smile that still sets off butterflies in your stomach.

The quiet moments cuddling.

It's the bad days - when you wish you had the power to lighten their burden and take away their sorrows.

You find yourself praying for them. 

The way you find yourself smiling just because they make you happy.

It's the quiet moments when you steal a glance at this man who is too humble to realize how amazing and sweet he is and how he so easily made you feel safe when you were too scared to let anyone in.

It's the moment you realize your in love, and as scary as it is you keep going. Not knowing what will happen, perhaps if your loved in return. But it's okay, who truly knows what love is anyway? Love is what you make of it. Protect it. Guard it. 

"We should remember that saying 'I Love You' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it" 

- Elder David A. Bednar