Love takes two to tango. What considerations form part of one’s opinions in choosing a partner?
Love
Is a deep and tender feeling of affection or attachment towards a person, which may be romantic, sexual, or platonic.
However, deep love is usually sexual and passionate. Oftentimes, love is mistaken for lust, while emotion can also be deceptive.
As a matter of fact, couples in love feel secure in each other’s presence without any form of fear.
Moreover, true lovers share full companionship that overlooks all forms of negativity. Likewise, love has no room for jealousy, and is absolutely unconditional.
Compatibility
This is the natural ability between couples to live and work together in harmony, with well-matched characteristics as a result of having similar opinions, interests, and good relationships.
Therefore, couples in an agreeable relationship are adaptable to each other’s needs and desires.
They get along with each other in a way that promotes trust and confidence whilst enjoying their daily lives.
Compatible couples are forbearing, accommodating, and rarely argue.
Understanding
This is the process of having a clear knowledge of a specific thing or practice.
In other words, an understanding person is aware, and sensitive, about another person’s views, choices, and opinions.
In addition, to appreciating a partner’s strengths and weaknesses, it not only shows understanding but clearly reveals togetherness in a relationship.
When a couple shows understanding towards each other it means that they are ready to overlook areas that promote conflict.
Empathy
Is the ability to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within, that is the capacity to place one in another’s position.
An empathic relationship will see couples doing things not based on personal principles but on compassion and emotion.
A good example would be an instance, where a partner chooses to do something, just to make sacrifices, even though it may not be in his/her personal interest.
Quite a number of persons went into a relationship due to feelings based on appreciating the kind gestures(gifts) offered to a partner in the course of the relationship.
What is Your Status
What are your reason/s for getting into that relationship? Was it based on Love or Compatibility?
Could it also be that you understood each other very well, or that you felt trapped and was driven by your emotions, sentiments, and feelings of quilt?
No matter your answer, there is no defined path to building a strong relationship, only commit to making it work.