Love, four letters, 1 feeling, and a lifetime to learn about it. It's fascinating how we often talk about love and how we feel about it, but we rarely stop to think if we know exactly what it is. 

Naturally, today is the day where love is sold everywhere: Valentine's Day. As I have said before, love is everywhere and not just for your partner. However, I want to focus on that kind of love that you get when you get that ideal person. Likewise, at some point, I got to talk about it in a read.cash post, but today I want to broaden my outlook a bit more.

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It's a constant learning process

The dating period is simply the tip of the iceberg of what's to come in a relationship. It is the time when everything is perfect because you have just found the perfect person in your life (So we think). I use a concept, and that is that if we were perfect, we would be alone. 

As we get to know the person we choose to share our life with, we will probably see facets of that person who we dislike at all, that is where we must confirm if we love, or just idealized what we wanted if so, we would be disappointing ourselves.

Every day there is something to learn, and once you learn it, you love it. 

Beyond the physical. 

Well, we are human, we naturally like physical attractiveness. But believe me, with time we realize that this goes to the background when we get someone who loves us with all the bad things (I insist, we are not perfect and defects; we have many), with this I do not mean that who we choose has to be ungraceful, or graceful for us, but certainly what will keep us strong in a relationship over time, will not be the physical factor precisely, because as you know, the physical does not prevail.

There will be hard and complicated days. 

What they don't tell you about the love of couples is that it is not always a bed of roses. There are days where you feel exhausted, where there will be arguments and uncomfortable conversations, but you keep going. Life is like that. We are living with someone who, just like us, has emotions, desires, and points of view, to ignore that would be a big mistake.

If you didn't find love there, life brings you better things. 

I have known people with difficult breakups, whole life, and one day it's over. And nothing and no one can tell you how to cope with that. Some can get the love of their life after a few months, others take years, but they can get them. Everything is within each person and how they carry that process. What leaves me with no doubt is that to love, you need to love yourself first. It is a cliché, but it is still true and will always be true. 

I even lived it once. I had a breakup, and I thought I would never get something like it, and believe me; it was true. I got something much better.

It's Valentine's Day. Celebrate what you think is right.

Celebrate whatever makes you feel better, love day, friendship day, being alive, anything goes, love yourself if possible. Whatever makes us feel comfortable, that will be the best, and if you have a partner, do something symbolic, not necessarily big but quality time, and repeat it tomorrow, and the next day, and whenever you can, that's what it's all about. 

Enjoy, and don´t forget to be happy!