I always ask myself why people can’t stay in love.
Why is loving so difficult
For people who live together, day after day?
I am convinced that we often believe our own pretence.
We think that we love someone else.
But, in fact, we only love ourselves; we love ‘me’.
Each one expects too much of the other.
It is the other person who must be pleasant.
The other person must build me up, must help me out,
Must never be grumpy, must never nag.
At the slightest failing, I feel hurt.
We think too little, may be never,
About what we ourselves can give
Or can do for our partner.
Don’t blurt out without thinking,
‘you don’t love me any more’.
No, not before you yourself have given everything.
Living together day after day
People find it very difficult
To go on loving each other.
This is true for married couples.
After starting with an avalanche
of declaration of a love so deep
That you would gladly die for each other,
There comes the down-to-earth realization
That, after all, you are not
In the mood for dying for each other every day!
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