Point-Of-View: Love and Differences

It was hard to imagine watching two people so into each other. You could see them happy together, their tastes matched with each other and their differences only made them more interested with each other.

But these were only the disillusions of love. Sometimes, we would always find our partner's difference as something unique about him or her. We would start to love that about them, because it was a sign of their individuality. Their difference made them want them more for we believed that we are in love when we accept them for their difference, for who they are.

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Of course, that is what really love is, but how long could your relationship flow smoothly with your differences?

Small differences are no big deal. It would not matter if he likes the color blue and you like orange, if he is too tall or too short for you, if she is too ugly or too pretty for you, if she is smarter in Physics than you.

What about the big differences? What if the guy is a Born-Again and the girl is a Catholic? What if she wanted financial stability at the age of 35 before getting married and he wanted to get married at the age of 25? What if he wanted to live in their own home, far from relatives while the girl wants to live in a compound close to her parents' house once they get married? What if she wanted to work abroad and he didn't want her to? What if he wanted to put up a business managed by him and his future wife and she just wanted to stay employed?

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You may have different religions or beliefs, difference attitudes or personalities, but there will come a point that both of you have to compromise. And when we compromise, it would be either one would sacrifice their own belief for the other, or both would not do what they plan to do so that it would not make one of them sacrifice their own belief.

But there will come a time when one of them should sacrifice and give up their beliefs, their personalities, their principles just to make the relationship work.

Would you do that for love?

Could you give up your religion? Your beliefs? All the little pieces of your puzzle that makes you whole when they are put together?

Could you? Would you?

And would you still love a person when they could not give you what you wanted? If they could not do what you want them to do? Would you still love them if they refused to adapt to what you believe in? To what your principles are?

Could you? Would you?

For how long? To what extent?

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