Why do husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, lie to each other?

Our romantic relationships are seldom what they seem. We all want a relationship that is built on openness, intimacy, and trust, but the truth is, our relationships do not always work that way. More often than not, our intimate relationships involve secrecy and deceit. In fact, if you want to look for deception and betrayal in your own life, the best place to start is close to home. Husbands and wives, boyfriends...

Nathan

Each of us has the ability to love and to be loved, it is just a matter of finding it within our selves, and then finding a person to share it with.

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that...

Nathan

True love is supposed to be what brought you together. Many couples though, whether just dating, engaged to be married, married couples or people just living together experience difficult times, heartaches and breakups. Does true love have a roll at these times? What if it does? Can you handle that kind of love?

It's true you don't feel true love when you are the one being left. There is no sense of love when someone leaves you and you feel betrayed or, feel that you have been done...

Nathan

What is love? Is it something you can feel? How do people know if they have found the person they could spend the rest of their lives with? It would be easier to know if we've found this person if we could know what love is.

Initially when we meet someone we like there is probably something physical attracting us. We may feel attracted. Then if all goes well - you go out, have a good time, and find you want to spend more time with one another - you may begin to have more feelings...

Nathan

I stated above that I am in love. Let us try to verify if it, indeed, is love.

To me, love is a feeling, a sentiment, an emotion, rather than a desire. Love originates from respect; you can not love the person you have no respect for. But the converse may not always hold true. It is possible to respect a person you do not love.

A shopkeeper-buyer relation, for example, is based on respect rather than love.

Love is expressible in various ways. Touch, intimacy,...

Nathan