I've found a new love philosophy and I love it. :)

I came to realize how much I've been focusing on the primary stages and nothing more.

Falling in love is only half the battle. And if you get so enamored by it, it's all you'll know how to do. And you don't really learn anything from that that will teach you how to keep it. And you will fall out of that initial attraction after a while. People always do. And you think that's the end. So you look for the initial attraction again, from someone new. This creates an exhausting pattern, hombre.

Now I have the ability to forsee beyond those stages. A romance will last if the two people both have the qualities it takes to make it work :) And, more importantly, they must both want to. Without those things, no matter how nice the initial spark is, shit will crumble.

This philosophy is nice because it devalues the overrated, which cannot be relied upon for very long. And it makes moving on from those encounters LOADS EASIER.

You can just now focus on what you have.

It turns love into something that's GENUINELY free.