Is Love Enough to Be Felt or Does It Need to Be Shown?

What is love, really? Is it just a feeling, something that, if we carry it inside us, is enough on its own?

Because I feel love, and I know that I love you, and somehow I believe that you must also understand that I love you… so everything is fine. 

But what if the other person doesn’t feel it? What if they express the ways in which they would feel loved and seen, and we interpret that as them being demanding? Ungrateful for not sensing our love?

Maybe they simply don’t know how to appreciate it? Or is there, on the other hand, a certain ego on our side? 

If someone you love tells you (within reasonable limits and in a healthy context) what they need in order to feel your love, shouldn’t that -if you truly care- make you want to do those things, and even more, to show the depth of what you feel?

Maybe love is not just something we feel. 

Maybe it is something we are meant to share....

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