Does true love only exist in a minority of relationships/marriages?

[Anonymous]

Sometimes I feel as though most people settle.

[TransAm85]

I met my husband 12 years ago and it was just sex and fun in the beginning. Then I got pregnant, but it turned into a miscarriage. He claimed to have fallen in love w/me and even though I lost the baby, he proposed to me. I was only 26 and still a little lost, but I said yes. After 12 years I can say I have grown to love my husband, but in the beginning it was just sexual attraction. We don't have as much in common as many couples do, we are different in many ways, but opposites can attract. lol

[dovendyret]

Being in love isn't a choice but love itself is a choice. I don't think people settle - I think people forget to choose love after marriage because they think it's now just happy forever after.

Love requires work and effort, without it - the love than led to that marriage in the first place, will fade away.

[mobiusforniner]

Marriage is work. It isn't really the passionate love people make it out to be. That passion wears out quickly when reality settles in and you need to work together to survive. Especially when you're yelling at each other over taking shifts for screaming kids that won't sleep. Love evolves I guess.

[ImDusty]

I believe in true love, but I believe you can "settle" with your true love. I've been with my true love for years, but I would be lying if I said there weren't hotter women, but that doesn't matter because I like being with her

[RandomGuy1030]

Listen... Everyone with a brain says this is true: women can't love

Most people have it backwards and think love is a feminine attribute

Women dont even understand love from the perspective men do.

It's like how the moon is completely dark without the sun, women without men are unbelievably dark.

[johnseggs]

Go to therapy my guy

[RandomGuy1030]

Dark and evil

[oh_k789]

True love is in about 5% of relationships. Usually, those lasting the least, as "business" is a more reliable and durable bond between humans, and so is lust.

[FatherJack]

Yes , from my observations. Women and men are fundamentally very different mentally as different as the obvious physical differences , opposite & conflicting needs and wants , make hetero relationships a very bumpy ride in most cases.

[exitseven]

I think it is true. I do not see many couples that have what I have.

[Anonymous]

Yep. I see men wooing women with money or straight up lie to them big time. They end up marrying too.

And you know what? That's exactly what's in great demand right now. How disappointing.

[Andro36]

I dont think so but love certainly changes throughout marriages. Once you accept it you just have to learn to enjoy it.

[moonpie89]

I think most people settle too. I've loved people but i wonder if it was actually love. 🤔

[EzNamirimEzDibirim]

If I get married in the future, it will not be a love marriage.

[Iron_Man]

Maybe you’re right some people settle

[Anonymous]

Its true pray to not fall in it

[Anonymous]

typical women answer lol

[Anonymous]

it's rare but it exists