You know the difference between puppy love and true love?\u00a0 True love has NOTHING to do with the butterfly feeling in your stomach, or a magical first kiss or “falling” into anything.\u00a0 Puppy love is the purely emotional stuff.\u00a0 True love is that which remains committed regardless of emotion–so that even when you don’t feel like it, you still work to serve the other person and make sacrifices to give the other what is best.\u00a0 A relationship of true love is the only kind that lasts, because it is committed through thick and thin.\u00a0 Emotions can go up and down and butterflies fly away and initial feelings always change, but true love never gives up.\u00a0 True love isn’t fallen into, it’s committed to with perseverance and integrity.<\/p>\n
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