What Kind of Love Is Yours?

In marriage, there are two kinds of love. There’s passionate love and there’s compassionate love.

If you are you need to know what kind of love you have otherwise, frustration and unnecessary friction from misconceptions would cripple your home and relationship.

1.         Passionate Love

Passionate love is the love at the beginning of a relationship. It’s the excitement and the romance and illogical arousal that you experience when you really don’t know your partner.

We know that passionate love declines after about 18 months. Then we start forming what we call compassionate love, the love of friendship, support and intimacy.

2.         Compassionate Love                                                                                                 

If something happens to you, the person that you go to is the one with whom you feel compassionate love. It’s the person who supports you in your big scares of life, and in the little daily experiences that go on day in and day out. It’s the love of friendship.

Couples who have been together for a long time, practice and talk more about compassionate love, or real love much more than the passionate kind. 

The value of learning the truth is priceless, especially when it comes to love and relationships.

So what kind of love is yours?