How do you balance love and avoid being exploited?

This question really slapped me in the face! LOL. I gave everything, I trusted, loved, waited I became patient 101% But I was abused and taken for effing granted!! "It means you have to give everything you can without expecting in return" --People do that, love without expecting in return, and sometimes their partner really don't give in return! Nowadays I think there are only 5 out of 15 couples who don't abuse each others love.

Know how to be smart and witty. When a partner becomes too trusting with you and then decides to abuse you, stand up to yourself. Its not going to be a great life if you leave him/her to do whatever they like. Giving all your love to someone who exploits you only to have them repeat it is really shameful. Such people are extremely innocent and might do stupid things in order for other people to enjoy the benefit or compliment them. Every man is created with brains and they should learn to use it wisely..

Getting exploited in a relationship ? Sounds like a one sided affection. Love is unconditional. But it can't be one sided, and you don't have a relationship if it's one sided. If the other is taking advantage of you, then it's a different thing. But this is not right. Everybody deserves to be with someone who appreciates and loves them back. Cheating is a very ugly thing, and i despise people who do it. Why do people cheat. It's like they have been taking advantage of their lover and then later decided to be someone who they find attractive. Love is all about give, but that giving cannot be done all the time. Of course it's a different story when one of the two gets busy with some important work for a while, but then there is always that back to you thing. If you find that the relationship is not going anywhere, or if you are the only one who is keeping up and the other is taking you for granted, then it is not a good thing for the relationship either, and it if goes on, it is meaningless to be in that relationship.

you said perfect love ??? But the reality is that there is nothing perfect but god. That's what i believe, but if you mean you love someone so strongly that he/she can abuse you without even knowing that he/she is doing so, yeah that can happen, if & only if it's love from one part, coz if it's " perfect love " like you said, this will never happen. Sometimes we fall in love with the wrong person, but we keep thinking & believing he/she is the right one, signs are so obvious, but love is blind like we call it here, LOL. this can mislead us, & if we get caught with the wrong person that we gave 100% of our heart, we'r literally finished & it's so hard for the broken hearted person to heal from such wounds so easily. so as a man i pray not to get caught with such a woman, & same to you women, hope you never get caught with such a man.

if you love someone unconditionally, i dont think you will ever entertain the thought that you are being exploited. you wont even have the idea because all you have is love for your partner. you cant say you are loving someone unconditionally if you dont accept all of him, and i mean flaws and all. my current guy is the strangest of all the guys ive been with and i must say he's been giving me a lot of bad feeling towards the relationship, he's the only guy who made me cry a lot of times, and i must say he's the only guy who i feel is not treating me right. but believe it or not, i choose not to think too much about it as he told me one day that im just being too much of a drama queen and a baby and that i should grow thicker skin. i dont know but i just grew tired of arguing over little things only to realize that its not making our relationship any better. perhaps more understanding on my part will make it work. thinking about breaking it off with him makes me really sad so its either i choose to stay (which i resorted to doing at the moment) or wait for the day i get tired of everything and just plain say im out. until then, i can say i just love all of him even if its not all sugar and spice for both of us.

I am looking for love all the time.But it is difficult to find where it is.