Why or why not?
Here I’m only asking about romantic love/being in love.

Not general love for someone as a person or familiar/platonic love. As I think it’s obviously you have to literally like being around your partner.

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9 comments

  1. Feeling in love can change by the moment. If you never feel in love, that’s a problem. But a marriage shouldn’t depend on feeling in love consistently.

    A successful marriage is falling in love with the same person repeatedly for decades.

  2. Love is the glue for two individuals to be one… But love is composed of three important things

  3. Love is the primary reason to marry. I cannot imagine a marriage without love. It sounds like a prison.

  4. Marriage can get so tough at times. I would never enter into it without being truly madly in love with my spouse.

  6. The last 2 years of my marriage I was deeply and madly in love with my wife, she was not. No matter what I did she said she was unable to “fall in love with me again”. We filed for divorce on Thursday. I could’ve kept going, as my love for her was strong enough (plus we have a 3yo), but she wanted out. I admit, there were days in which her lack of love for me could be clearly felt, and it hurt like hell, but overall I cherished every day with her.

    Maybe I’m naive, but once the divorce is finalized I feel like I’ll be free to look for someone that I can love madly and deeply and who can love me madly and deeply. To me that is the goal in life. To find that person you can be yourself with and they can be themselves and the emotional aspect of the relationship just flows smoothly.

  7. Long ago I had a relationship based on sex, but we kind of hated each other outside of that. Things were so toxic that it took almost a decade to recover after we split up.

    The love in my marriage in comparison is the polar opposite. This has been the most positive experience of my life. The sex is also amazing so I really do have it all.

  8. Marriage is a legal contract. It doesn’t require any emotional component at all, and it doesn’t even require you to have a relationship with the person you are married to.

  9. In my opinion, first comes respect. Respect other person as you would want to be respected. There’re a difference between falling in love and actual love. And there’s no right word in English to differentiate these two concepts.

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