Love, Partnership and Romance!

What is Love, partnership and romance? How are they related, if at all?

Love: Love is acceptance; it is submission - complete surrender. Love is unconditional; it is unifying - being one with another, and it is also a feeling or emotion. It may start with a feeling but not feeling only. Love demands maturity - an immature doesn't love. He is only interested in possession of the loved one and confuses it to love. Love is to let go oneself and one's ego.

Love is a declaration - I love because I said so. Love is faith - a blind faith. Love is trusting the loved one. In love we don't make the loved one wrong. Love is understanding. Love is giving space to the loved one and love is respecting. Love is not a show-off. Love is being filterless with the loved one. In love there are no expectations.

Love is discovering myself - my working and limitations. Love is the ultimate test, for all the above said are various faces of love but rarely we have them in pure form. To love is to seek God, for God too can be described with various attributes and we hardly can comprehend any.

Love is limitless. It multiplies. Love is generative in nature - i.e, it can be generated [by delcaration] limitlessly. Unlike Energy the law of conservation doesn't apply to love.

Romance: Romance is an expression of love. It adds spice to life. It is the creative expression. Love is the source of romance.

Partnership: Partnership is understanding - of each other and of the raison detre of the partnership. It is objective in nature. Partnership enables workability. It is not an emotion nor a feeling. It's pure business, for survival. Again, love is the fuel for partnership.

Romance and Partnerships are the right and left brain functions respectively. Love is central to both. A right balance between partnership and romance , coupled with abundance of love is is the key to happiness.