The word love

The best definition of love I think can be found in the Bible in 1 Corinthians chapter 13 just because even if you're not a Christian it truly describes what love should be. There is definitely is a difference because unfortunately even though love is all those great things (patient, kind, always protects and perseveres, always trusts and hopes, and keeps no record of wrong) we are human and those human emotions we have impurify love. Real love must be blind, deaf, and sometimes retarded in order to carry on a relationship. We have to overlook all the irritating things our partner does and not only overlook but learn to love. Forgive them over and over again for hurting us sometimes by being thoughtless and hateful, and sometimes forgive them for being hurtful because we are overly sensitive. It is difficult to love another human being who is so different and imperfect. I have such a hard time with the reality of love. What I mean is that I don't understand where love changes or why. I don't comprehend the difference of falling in love and being in love. Falling is way more fun and I seem to fall forever even after my partner has landed. I always feel like there is something missing because that new excitement is so spectacular. I just feel like when you're falling in love it's so much closer to the definition of love, and in that period of your relationship your partner cannot and would not do anything wrong. So to sum it up I believe the difference is Love, the way it should be and what we are told of, is the whole Falling in Love "Honeymoon Stage" is the foundation of real love, and the "real thing" is when you are actually "In Love" it is the remainder of your relationship and what has survived. Being "In Love" or "Real Love" is so much deeper but not quite as euphoric and often it gets diminished. While I do believe they are different I also believe we experience both and they both have ups-and-downs and are scary and amazing and everything in between, but one doesn't exist without the other.