Daily Om: Loving and committing to another
person is a spiritual process whether it involves a wedding or any other
type of commitment ceremony. Often when we enter into a relationship,
we allow our emotions to lead us forward without thinking more deeply
about what true commitment involves. If we can understand that sharing
our lives with another person is not just based on love but also on the
hard work of being able to compromise and enter into a dialogue with
them, then we are much more likely to find the key to having a
successful relationship with our partners. So many people have not
experienced a loving relationship between their own parents and
therefore have no role model of what love should feel like or look like.
Many of us have been exposed to the idea that love should be romantic
and sweep us off our feet. While this is a natural part of any
relationship, the true test of our love comes from our willingness to
explore this world with another person; to not only share in the
delights that we encounter but also to negotiate the bumps in the road
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