How to Know True Love

Figure It Out

• Step 1:
  Figuring out why you enjoy being with your partner can go a long way in determining if this is true love or just an infatuation. One needs to examine if her partner makes her feel giddy and excited about spending time with them, or is the time you spend together mediocre at best.
• Step 2:
  Question how your partner makes you feel. In a true love relationship, you look forward to spending time with this person and know you cannot consume him. Infatuation relationships usually involve at least one person wanting to consume the other person, demanding all of his time and attention so he cannot have friends or perform his work.
• Step 3:
  Supporting one other is easy in a true love relationship but it gets shaky in an infatuation relationship. True love relationships have partners who compromise while infatuation relationships usually consist of one half of the couple doing all the compromising.
• Step 4:
  Being comfortable in all areas is a sign of true love but, in infatuation relationships, something is missing. Is the relationship a total relationship where you support each other in all ways in the bedroom as well as outside the bedroom? True love encompasses all activities for the couple; they are the ones who hold hands in public as well as in the bedroom. In an infatuation relationship, it doesn't seem that all the needs are satisfied for the couple in all of these areas.
• Step 5:
  Having clear, open, honest communication is part of true love but in infatuation, it simply is not present. The couple who is in true love can have peaceful silences as well as heated debates and it's fine either way. The infatuated couple does not have the ease of open, honest communication. Usually one or both of them is simply too scared to admit to honest feelings.