The Reason Love Dies (And How To Get It Back!)

Shelly Bullard writes:

Our nature is to want to escape anything that feels like it’s limiting to us. Obligations, expectations, “shoulds.”

But what about things that we want to do–do we like that?

Yes, of course.

Well, the same rules apply to love.

When you feel like you have to love—that you have to do things to make your partner happy, that you have to be a certain way to get the love you want—then the feeling of authentic love starts to disintegrate and die. Sounds harsh, but it’s true.

Love needs space to grow.

Like fire, love needs a little breathing room. Stifle it and it burns right out.

The reason love dies under heavy limitations is because limits are counter to our very nature, which is growth. We can’t help but expand. We can’t help but evolve. We can’t help but to change.

Full story at: The Reason Love Dies (And How To Get It Back!).