I think intellectually I understand real love. Real love is unconditional. Real love is comforting. It provides you with safety, security and peace. It enables you to be the best person you can be. It is mutual and you take great pleasure in giving all these things to your partner. It is being so in love that you can't wait to see the person. Their smilng face is always on your mind.

I for one have never had true love. I made bad choices. Always seemed that the person I was with had an agenda. In all my relationships I was used for one thing or another. Used for safety, comfort, sex, money...... each and every time. Except for my last realtionship. This one could of been true love but my depression got in the way and screwed that one up for me. I know what I feel in my heart now is true love. I feel all the feelings I described above. Yet she is gone. That is the biggest heartbreak of all.