Ramblings about Love

For me, commitment and love in an intimate relationship are parts of the same thing.
Love is the wisteria vine, adding sweetness and beauty to life;
Commitment is the structure the vine needs to grow
to its greatest capacity. Each without
the other is not whole.

Many things are called love which do not necessarily involve commitment:
Pleasure, convenience, sex. Love includes these
but it is more than the sum of them. A whole
love involves giving as well as receiving.

Perhaps the original writer of the traditional marriage vows understood
love and commitment as one. Love is exalting in “better”, in “richer”,
in “health”, in “life”. It is also sharing “worse”,
“poorer”, “sickness”, and “death”.

Whole love involves more than “singing in the sunshine”. It is much more
than wisteria crawling on the ground.. Whole love is a dynamic,
growing force. It is the greatest power in the universe.

By Linda L. Gage