Love is...

Love is not talking about your amazing day to help your partner deal with their awful day

Love is taking a peaceful walk through the autumn trees

Love is the occasional huge fight, sincere apology, and make-up ice cream sundaes

Love is laughing ourselves silly while on mini-golf dates because we both suck a mini-golf

Love is teaching your partner how to make hommade cookies, failing the first time

because we used the wrong recipe, and then making awesome cookies with the right recipe

afterwards

Love is buying your partner a pizza and tons of water, bringing it to their house when they get sick

and spending the afternoon with them

Love is accepting your partner's quirks, like their obssession with Game of Thrones

Love can be a lot of crazy, beautiful things

But what isn't love

Love is not supposed to lower your self esteem,

make you feel worthless or ashamed

Love is not neglecting your own needs to please your partner,

it has to be a two way street

Love is not manipulation or lust

And love is NEVER violence, mental, emotional, or physical

Because "I love you" is a gift, not a drug