"Profound love is about the desire to live with a partner who can thrive in a mutual relationship. Sometimes, life wins out over love, and one partner may say, "I will always love you, but we cannot flourish together." Profound love isn't always synonymous with long-term love; some couples divorce despite deep affection. The heart of enduring love is the capacity to bring out the best in each other."
"Sometimes, life wins out over love, and one partner may say, "I will always love you, but we cannot flourish together." Profound love isn't always synonymous with long-term love; some couples divorce despite deep affection. The heart of enduring love is the capacity to bring out the best in each other. When partners realize staying together blocks their personal growth, the need to flourish can outweigh the emotional bond."
Romantic life offers three primary routes: the continuously traveled road, the road never taken, and the partially taken road. The continuously traveled road emphasizes partners who bring out the best in each other and help one another become their ideal selves, exemplifying the Michelangelo Effect. Profound love can coexist with a decision to separate when partnership blocks personal growth, because the need to flourish may outweigh emotional bonds. The road never taken often involves curiosity about first loves. The partially taken road contains love without full fulfillment, producing lingering intensity and unresolved longing.
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