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

What is love, really? Is it simply a feeling we carry inside us something that, by existing alone, should be enough?

Because I feel love, and I know that I love you. Somehow, I assume that this should already be understood… that my love should naturally be felt.

But what if it isn’t?

What if the other person tries to express the ways in which they feel loved and seen, and we quietly interpret those needs as demands? As ingratitude for not immediately sensing what we already feel inside ourselves?

Maybe they simply experience love differently. Or perhaps there is also a hidden form of ego within us the belief that feeling love is automatically the same as sharing it.

If someone we love tells us, gently and honestly, what helps them feel our presence, shouldn’t that make us want to move toward them in those ways?

Not out of obligation. But because love, when it is real, naturally wishes to reach the other person.

Maybe love is not only something we feel.

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

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