Cheesy song title? Yes. True statement? Also yes. Making a relationship work takes so much more than love. I feel like we don't get any preparation for how hard relationships are. And when you consider that most of our parents don't have a good marriage to begin with, how are we supposed to know how to make a good relationship happen?
Love is an absolutely necessary part of a healthy relationship, but love alone won't get the job done. It takes a lot of work, and a lot of communication to have a successful relationship, and you have to both be willing to make the effort, or it will fail.
All relationships have problems. So what do you do when you have a breakdown in communication, or when you're upset about something? First, you need to both be willing to talk about it. Second, you need to both be willing to make an effort to improve it. If either one of you isn't willing to do both of these things, then the little problems will end up becoming big problems
Romantic movies give us the idea that as long as two people love each other, then everything else will work. They never show us all of the work, the fights, the miscommunication, the sacrifice and compromise that a good relationship takes. Don't underestimate the importance of love, but don't lose sight of how much effort it takes.
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