Love is freeing. Love is freely given, not doled out on demand. Authentic love is not given with strings attached. There is an unconditional quality about love.
Love is expansive. If I love you, I encourage you to reach out and develop other relationships. The honest evidence of our love is ourmitment to encouraging another’s full development.
Love recalls having a want for the person I love without having a need for that person in order to beplete. If I am nothing without you, then I’m not really free to love you.
Love means identifying with the person I love. If I love you, I can empathize with you and see the world through your eyes. I can identify with you because I’m able to see myself in you and you in me. This closeness does not imply a continual “togetherness”, for distance and Separation are sometimes essential in a