Love is a complicated emotion, and misconceptions about it abound.

Most people still believe in certain ideas about love that are far from the truth, such misunderstandings impact our perspectives on ourselves, relationships, and what love truly represents. Below, we outline five misunderstandings about love that most people still believe:
- Love is just a feeling: Love goes beyond simply feeling an emotion. While feelings of affection and fondness of someone are the foundation, healthy, and fulfilling love involves action. To sustain love in relationships, there must be a willingness to show up during various phases of a relationship: to support, commit, communicate and prioritize one another. Emotions and feelings sometimes wax and wane; stable love means making that commitment everyday to that special person.
- Love is never ending: While many couples promise each other an eternal love, the idea of love being endless is unrealistic — it could exist for a particular period and then dissolve based on change, study shows that romantic love frequently lasts around a year. However, true companionship can come from the evolution of love into something less euphoric but grounded in mutual respect, trust, affection, and deep admiration for one another.
- Love is about only one person: Another common misunderstanding around love is the concept of love revolving only around one person. Love must be spread; the love and respect shown to family, friends, pets, the larger community shared with one’s significant other are all crucial facets of love. Love must be all-encompassing, beyond just one person.
- Love cannot heal: When love is genuinely present, it can create significant positive shifts. Research shows that when patients with heart ailments are around loved ones or pets, they experience improved health and a rapid healing process. Emotional support from loved ones can help overcome depression, anxiety, and traumatic effects, thereby allowing for a healthy emotional healing experience.
- Love must always have a happy ending: Pop culture’s portrayal of love ending in a happily-ever-after creates too high of a bar. Failed love also has its merits, as it helps individuals find strength, learn wisdom, and establish emotional resilience. Rather than blindly rooting for a happy ending fueled by synthetic notions of love, rooting for an emotionally connected and healthy partnership where personal growth can thrive, emotional traumas can be addressed, and individuality preserved is the winning goal.
In the end, love is much deeper and complex than society sometimes portrays it. Love involves effort, compromise, and practical action beyond merely a meaning of words. Dismiss the norms, instead focus on what’s well-grounded and real and you can then establish stable footings that leads towards a healthy, emotionally balanced relationship filled with trust, respect, mutual growth and, of course, genuine love.
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