Love is fleeting. Why are we expected to love forever?

I hope to find a lifetime partner and be loved forever. It is a part of our life to aspire something like this.

@lawltrzk I think when we try something to hold on in love, its not going to work out and will remain momentary or will feel like fleeting out, which mainly happens in attraction. Deep and unconditional love though rare nowadays, can still happen. If we are feeling that why we should be expected to love a person 24/7, that itself is a wrong thought because that love would be superficial. Love is not a machine.

Love is unpredictable

Love comes in different forms. Love is not an active feeling. It is something you feel deep inside you. Over time, the kind of love that people feel for their partners is not the intense, head over heels kind of love. It tends to mellow down a little. Love for a lot of people is not what you feel all the time. It's a kind of fondness that's very subtle but deep rooted. When we're fond of someone, we won't realize when our love for them reaches this kind of stability that it doesn't seem like an effort anymore. While the kind of intense, deep love that we feel occurs in bouts, love otherwise is a pretty persistent state and would be quite an effortless state of mind. Again, attraction is different from love. One can't feel attraction for a person all the time, but love, that's something else!

Love is temporary and fleeting. If it is just a sentiment or an emotion, it will pass away soon. But if there is awareness and if it arises from the depth of our hearts, it will survive for long. Also we need to constantly nurture and work at deepening our love.