How do you keep the LOVE alive?

Philippines
January 28, 2011 3:37am CST
Lately I have been asking myself if when I grow old with my partner will I still love him like I used to? or would he still love me like he used to? This makes me wonder, I mean when we grow old will we still feel the same about each other or it's gonna be companionship thats gonna matter?I know that I am a little bit cynic about this but hey reality bites. I know that love moves mountains yes thats true. I have learned in life that when you start to build up a relationship you start to lose yourself because you give everything to your partner which in a way is not good, coz once your partner leaves you, you are doomed because you have made him/her your whole life, as they say life is give and take as well as love is like that too.
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@bubuth (1815)
• Philippines
19 Mar 12
I think the only thing that can make a love still alive in a relationship is just always still give time to each other and do the things that you do before like when the first time you are dating. Always have a communication and always stay sweet to each other. Also don't do the things that can make your partner lose your trust in you. Show to your partner that you really love him and if he feel it to his self he will also show to you his love for you.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Jan 11
celeste you start by not just taking each other forgranted. You tell eacg other each day I love you,why? because in life we never know what could happen the next day.to keep love a live you need to give love as well as just accept it, and also you need to love each other with out conditions no I will love you when you love ten pounds or I will love you when you remember t o put the damned toilet seat down. p eople have divorced over such silly nonsense. love is supposed to be uncondiional we love him or her, faults and all. none of us are perfect so how dare we demand the prfect ten woman, the perfect jock or the perfect tall dark and handsome as we are ourselves imperfect. love does not worry about little imperfectons not real love. listen to the Beatles :Will You still love me when I am 64?" its a great song, amusing and also true of us and our unreasonable assumptions about what we want in a mate? as if we could order him or her from a catalog?
@thanks1961 (7035)
• India
28 Jan 11
When it come and mix with a lot of daily problems and family concerns, the brightens and shining disappears, especially the partner is not a so called lover. It remain as in tact and it never goes off also. Normally we are not expressing each other in any manner. I never felt that I love for loving. It lives with and express whenever we feel. For me the partner is part of my life and all anongwith me whenever I feel. Only difference is that it's not part of the body. There was a time we cannot live separate and long for each and every moment. But all worldly things and togetherness for a long period of time make no difference and my problem is of hers and her problems coms to me as mine also. So, a love life goes off when it become one for ever. Thank-s
• Philippines
29 Jan 11
hello celeste! you are right, we, women often lose ourselves when we're in love because we give our everything to the one we love. This should not be the case, as we all know that. We should leave something for ourselves, so when time comes, we would still be able to move on without hassles. But as men are wired to be polygamous by nature, we women are also wired to be emotional creatures. I guess, we will just have to make the best of everything we've got. Anyway, as to keeping the love alive,i think we should just be innovative. It's actually a case to case basis. Men are not alike, there are those who thrive on changes. These are the men who will leave you for another if they get bored with you and with what you constantly do. Then there are those who thrive on familiarity. They would like someone familiar and constant in their life, amidst the changes they constantly face, in work, family and socially. You also have to know what turns you on and what will make a guy attract your attention for long. if you have an open communication, you can talk about this so you can work things out. If you want to remain with each other, it would take effort on both sides. Keeping the love alive takes effort. But what you have to bear in mind, that love thrives on the little things you do for each other and love fails when these little things are left forgotten and disregarded.
• United States
29 Jan 11
I think it's about working with each other. Sometimes you get arguments and stuff like that and it kind of changes the relationship between you for a while. After that, there's that feeling that you don't want that person to go and you been with them for a very long time. You two been through too to much to let things go. If you show the person you care and you want to do anything for them, then maybe they can get that feeling that everything is okay and worth it. It really takes a lot of faith and hard work to keep love alive.
@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
28 Jan 11
"It's sad, is unjust, it's terribly unfair,but as you can love life, my dear, hide, sometimes my love for it is not known to feed only searches. And to me eternal love,sweet reason of my existence,teach me to save our soul, than to die from time to time, you want me to cry again, I revived, I keep ... "I think quote says it all. But I thought so ... that all love stories end with "and they lived happily ever after" ... why not also mention how they managed? : D. Now,leaving aside the joke:I think it's important not to let routine relationship to take hold. Never forget you, as a woman to be beautiful for him. Do not forget him as a man, to be cared for her. They are already notorious cases in which they are in love, get married, there is a child, he begins to belly, to "postpone" its longer shave, it is entirely devoted child,remember to weigh in May, no longer arrange No longer cares. And then wonder what's wrong.As long as you respect yourself, respect your partner and respect your relationship, beyond love,I can keep that love ever after ...All the best!