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Healthy Love

People in healthy relationships display the following characteristics:

1. They allow for individuality
2. They experience both oneness with and separateness from another
3. They bring out the best qualities in self and another
4. They accept endings
5. They experience openness to change and exploration
6. They invite growth in the other person
7. They experience true intimacy
8. They feel the freedom to ask honestly for what is wanted
9. They experience giving and receiving in the same way
10. They do not attempt to change or control the other
11. They encourage self-sufficiency of partners
12. They accept limitations of self and other
13. They do not seek unconditional love
14. They accept and respect commitment
15. They have a high self-esteem
16. They trust the memory of the beloved; they enjoy solitude
17. They express feelings spontaneously
18. They welcome closeness; risk vulnerability
19. They care with detachment
20. They affirm equality and personal power of self and other.

Love Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Whilst we should not seek unconditional love from another, it is something we should strive for the one we love and the relationship we share. True love is
unconditional. True love is transparent, where we can accept, understand, and allow the other person to make every mistake, falter, stumble, and give genuine
heartfelt compassion when they are trying their best, even if their best is can be “better.”

True love should carry no judgment or manipulation. True love is pure, deep, eternal, and it never dies.
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