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Differences Between Loving Someone & Being In Love

LOVING SOMEONE IS ABOUT OWNERSHIP, BEING IN LOVE IS A PARTNERSHIP
When you love someone, you want to label them as yours. You need them to commit to being
your boyfriend and say they’re yours. Being in love is about wanting to be each other’s. You
give yourself as much as you get. You two are a partnership, a team, and no one belongs to
anyone.

LOVING SOMEONE IS AN UPHILL BATTLE, BEING IN LOVE IS EFFORTLESS
You will hear people say, “It shouldn’t be this hard.” And they’re right, it shouldn’t.
Fighting and scrabbling to stay connected and keep the spark alive isn’t being in love.
You may love this person, but it will inevitably turn into a situation where you feel like you’re just
forcing it. I’m not saying that a relationship with someone you’re in love with will always be easy,
just that the feeling of being in love will be there without any effort. Some days will be difficult.
Some days will seem to take everything you have. But at the end of the hard days, or the hard
months, you will always feel that you are in love with each other. That feeling will never be work
or effort.