Tiny Wisdom: How We Want to Be Loved
“Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.” -Charles Du Bos
Love is a tricky thing because it’s something we both give and receive—and yet it’s so much easier to dwell on the love we’re not getting than to recognize the love we’re not giving.
I used to have a simultaneously broad and narrow definition for love. Broad, because it encompassed a vast number of idealistic guidelines, and narrow because these limiting rules quickly labeled most relationships loveless.
If someone didn’t seem to offer me their unconditional understanding, or if they appeared to …