| When you love someone with every fibre of | | | | for you through thick and thin. Love is dedication, |
| your being, every breath that you take, and | | | | respect and mutual compassion. Love is what I |
| every beat of your heart, it is impossible to | | | | have with my husband. |
| believe that you are wrong. When losing the | | | | When we are heartbroken, we think that the |
| person feels like losing the air that you breathe, it | | | | severe pain is evidence proving the depth of our |
| is impossible to accept that you are not "meant | | | | love. We think that the fact that someone could |
| to be" with that person. I believed that because I | | | | bring us to our knees like this proves that they |
| felt the way I did, our connection HAD to be real. | | | | are our soulmate. Nothing could be further from |
| It couldn't be possible that I was love addicted. It | | | | the truth. They might be your soulmate by |
| couldn't be possible that our love would fail. It | | | | coincidence, but none of these symptoms prove |
| couldn't be possible that he would ever really | | | | it. |
| leave me. He did. (I just made myself cry.) | | | | The truth is that what is meant to be, is. And you |
| The truth, however, is that I was love addicted. | | | | and this person are not in a healthy, successful |
| All of the "love" that I felt was not real love. So | | | | relationship. That is what is happening in the |
| many times I have tried to accept that, and it is | | | | present, and the present is all you have. You |
| still hard to this day. I defined "love" by my | | | | cannot change what is truly meant to be. You |
| feelings. The longing I felt. The pain I was in from | | | | have to put your faith in God. I am not a religious |
| being heartbroken. The torture I experienced | | | | person, but my heartbreak was so severe that |
| when he pulled away, when he didn't call, when he | | | | at times my only choice was to go to the church |
| left. That was my "proof" that my love for him | | | | by myslef and cry, begging God for guidance, |
| was stronger than any other love that any one | | | | because I had no place else to go and no one else |
| person had ever felt for another. But that was | | | | to turn to. I prayed for him to come back to me, |
| not "love," it was addiction. | | | | but I also acknowledged to God that I knew HE |
| Love does not feel like excruciating pain and | | | | would not steer me wrong, and that he would |
| longing. Love is not conflict and fighting. Love is | | | | point me in the right direction. He did. |
| not feeling empty inside. Love feels good. Love is | | | | Believe that what is meant to be, is. Give up |
| reciprocated. Love is the security that your mate | | | | trying to control your destiny and things will start |
| is committed to you, you alone, and will be there | | | | to turn around. |