Does Love mean compromise?

love does not necessarily mean compromise. love is a will. one has to will it to be able to fully love a person. compromising means not loving. one does not lose when one loves. one wins instead when s/he loves. please reconsider your position about love. it is for everyone.

Yes, absolutely. To love someone else, you have to make compromises. The good thing is,if you are truly in love, it doesn't seem like a bad, or sacrificial thing. Love isn't a constant compromise. You may find that if you look a little closer, you are already making compromises without realizing that you are. You should not have to compromise on things that make you feel uncomfortable. Anyone who loves you will not ask you to do that.

There is a big difference between compromise, and sacrifice. Compromise - I wwant to go to Croatia on my next vacation, my husband wants to go to Italy, we have two weeks vacation. Do we argue over where we go for the whole two weeks, or do we spend a week in Croatia, and a week in Italy? We compromise, and spend a week in both places. Sacrifice - I want to go to Croatia, he wants to go to Italy, so we only go to ONE of those places for the whole vacation. One of us gets our way, the other sacrifices. The above is just an example. LOL Hubby and I are both interested in spending the entire vacation in Croatia, if we only had the money! LOL :)

True love is unconditional,which means that there are no riders or strings attached.Both partners accept each others as they are,all the good and bad points taken into consideration without any reservations.In any relationship there has to be flexibility and adaptibility but compromise is not a factor.By compromising one unwillingly gives up something close to ones heart in order that the relationship runs smoothly.However it will continue to rankle in ones heart and make the relationship an uneasy one.

Love is the willingness to compromise. If your partner is not willing to reciprocate, maybe it's not love at all. I have been married for almost 42 years and we are very happy. One reason is that I am willing to take her feelings into consideration and she takes my feeling into consideration. Love is give and take (Compromise). If all you want is to take and not give you will not have a happy life.

There's a bit in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 where Odo gives this talk on compromise in relationships. It goes something like: "You want to go out and she wants to stay home, so you compromise and stay home. You want to play a game, she wants to watch a show, so you compromise and watch a show. You want to see a ball game, she wants to see a Klingon Opera so you compromise and watch the opera." That sounds like a Palestinian type compromise. "Give me land for peace! Now give me more land for more peace ..." Then there are political compromises. This is where one group wants to develop a bit of land and another wants it protected because it's environmentally sensitive. So you trash the environment but don't build anything useful! Then there's the sensible compromise where one wants one kid and the other wants three so you have two. You really should find a partner with similar values but stuff happens. Best friend's huge wedding to a famous billionaire and the once in a lifetime try out for the Mars mission are both on the same day! One loves garlic, one become a vampire, that sort of thing. That's where things could get tricky. You shouldn't really beak up for just one small thing, or even quiet a few small things. However if one wants to celebrate Hanuckah and other Ramadan, you've probably got serious issues!

Hi Sarah.. That is true.. I agree with you. Compromise would never do! That will leave one or both of the partners dissatisfied... And the dissatisfaction will lead to break up.. Compromise is kind of giving up your own space... Such relations would not last long.. I think, each of the partner should give the necessary space to the other... That keeps the relationship healthy and strong... :)

Yes, I somewhat agree that love means compromise. Since there are nobody in the world will be exactly like you who enjoys the same thing. Even twins have different minds. You will have different tastes in music, food, books, TV shows and so on. It will be too difficult that one shall give in to another all the time. So I think both of the lovers shall give in and try to follow each other's interests. And when you truly love someone, I think you are willing to do it. I love China

I think it is. I think you have found that piece that has completed you and that is when you don't have to compromise. That is not to say that love is like that for everyone. It is your other half that completes you. One that you don't have to compromise with because of who you are. Now for someone else where compromising is not a big deal, well, they might have another kind of piece that completes them. Does that make sense? LOL

Hi sara... Love may seek compromise but it may be essential but to a limit coz we have our own life and it needs some freedom where compromises work less. I am not involved in a relationship till now but i will not sacrifice myself totally for the name of love. Have a nice time.

I don't think you have to always compromise on things to be in love. It could be something so small you don't even realize you are compromising. Like if your man does not want to go out but you do. You say okay we can make it another night, you just compromised and its nothing major that will make you uncomfortable, its just putting his feelings above your own. I don't think its good to always be the one to compromise, it is a joint thing. If your both on the same page with most things you might only have to compromise on the smallest of things that are really no big deal. I do not think you need to compromise on things to be in love though. It just might make a relationship more difficult if you don't see eye to eye on things... Since you said you mostly agree on things it doesn't seem to me like you will have an issue with compromise. You don't need to compromise if you always agree! That makes things much easier! =) I'm glad you found someone for you, everyone deserves love.

I don't think love demands compromise, if one has to compromise with the other in love then we really need to reconsider if it truly is love or not. If we keep on compromising in the name of love then that relationship will become a burden for us and we wouldn't be able to endure it for too long. We need to have an understanding of the other person and be willing to do things out of true love for them. I think love is for everyone, you just need to find the right person for you. Don't be disappointed, you will definitely find your true love...

Love is sharing. Sharing your "soul" with your partner, being two persons in one, that's because they call it "soulmate".

i think whenever u meet the right persion, you will not consider love as compromise. Love is feeling, if you feel good when you with your lover, then it is the true love. Well, it's my personal opinion.

You take pride in that for which you should feel shame all the best urban

Sarah, I don't think love means compromise at all. In my mind, a relationship that is based on compromise is very weak because that means the partners do not agree on very much. I think partners should see eye-to-eye on most if not everything. Here and there, they may agree to disagree. It's like your earlier comment, he'll go his way and you'll go yours. Once whatever it is is done, then you can come back together. I don't think it's wrong for partners or spouses to enjoy doing different things, but I don't think that requires a compromise either. I also don't think the people in the relationship should have to feel like they must enjoy the same things as one another. Everyone is different! When I met my husband, I knew we wouldn't be exactly alike. That would be a little scary...actually. But we're enough alike that we don't have to compromise; we can just agree or disagree. I'd rather disagree than compromise! I see compromise as neither side getting exactly what they want. If we can't agree on a place to go to eat, we either don't go at all; or he goes where he wants, and I go where I want. In fact, we've done that several times where he wants fast food from this restaurant, but I want fast food from the other restaurant. We go both places. I don't think that's compromise. That's both getting what we want! It's all about partnership and working together. Where we're not alike, we get over it and move on. If he doesn't like something, I don't try to get him to come halfway with me. I get it - he doesn't like it so I shouldn't force him to like it. I married him for who he is, not who I'm going to turn him into lol. I think it's childish to have a relationship with a person based on who you want them to be. I was attracted to my hubby for who he was, and he's still the same crazy guy I fell in love with years ago...haha.

As for me, yes. Love means compromise but it still depends on people and on situation. It depends to the definition of love that people are trying to describe here on earth. It also depends on the personality of each person according to psychologists. I see some couple who are successful because they have the same interests. They complement each other. As I said, it depends to the definition of love on each person but as for me, yes. That is what I see in a real world. What I learn based on my experience is that though the couple has the same interests and they have the same taste, they still have different perspective and how they think is different. Yes, I really do believe that… or maybe love is compromise… I do not know. I am saying this because this is what I see in a real world and this is based on my experience too, but still it depends on each person. Experience is the best teacher so you have to experience first so that you would know the best answer to your question.

There is a give and take in a relationship. I know for me it is way different with me and T then it was with me and my evil ex. I think what they mean by compromise is understanding the other person. And like the little things like, going to have dinner at her families house as well as her having dinner with my family. The little things. If you had to make major compromises, then there is no relationship, it would be a business agreement. Hey Now!

Everything in life has compromises love included it can be something small to something big. Like sharing a meal or splitting something. Yes I agree with my statement that you used to start a discussion. Love needs compromise, that doesn't mean one with out compromise doesn't work at all. But to me that isn't what a relationship is about. Its build on a foundation of several things, like trust, respect, communication. Compromises are part of communication making deals or find common ground on something. If there is nothing gained or lose there is no compromise but not all couples will agree on the same things. That is the kind of relationship I like. Not agree on the same thing all of the time and find away to make things work. It test our love even more and makes it stronger then some other peoples relationships because they don't want to go there. They don't want to push there love or even try to make it stronger because well they rather just give in to there partners needs or not even try. Why not try is what I can think? What is love with out finding away to make all things wrong for both half's even when you might not like something you find that happy medium as they say?

i personally don't think love means compromise in any way.if love demands compromise then it is not love.it is just fake and there is no place for love in that relationship.and after some time you will be tired from that relation and want to break it up. love is very pure feeling and for that we can not mix any thing in it.