Beyond Butterflies: Embracing Imperfection on the Path to Love

Any relationship truly begins only after the curtain is raised.

Love has the freedom to take the stage only after you’ve come to terms with the idea that the person beside you will never embody perfection. It will make its appearance when you are truly willing to see their flaws in the clear light of day, to get acquainted with them, and to accept them.

You will function well together when you learn to coexist with each other’s imperfections. When you can fearlessly reveal your insecurities, imperfections, and complexes to each other, knowing that you will receive understanding and acceptance in return.

Falling in love is easy: it means blindness, madness, passion, butterflies in the stomach. In contrast, well, love demands more: it craves embracing reality, faithfulness, commitment, goodwill, and hard work. A lot of hard work.

We hope that then we will have the perfect relationship, the perfect love, and nothing will bring us down from the cloud of happiness.

The more we strive, the greater our fall will be from a dizzying height. There’s this cliché of fighting for a certain relationship. In fact, it’s also the subject of many soap operas and dramas, a somewhat toxic way of relating, don’t you think?