Have You Been In Love?

What many believe to be the feelings of love are sometimes infatuation, dependency, comfort, security, lust etc. Love is different than all of those. When you love someone it's more than the feelings you feel at first, which for most are considered euphoric. Love takes time to develop and probably doesn't actually become solidified in a relationship until you've past some milestones and overcome some speed bumps. You can never set a time period for love because you never actually know when you've seriously fallen in love with someone until later down the road; that's when you can look back and say "that was the moment" I fell in love.

The last time I loved a person was December of 2006. I remember the feeling as I sat across the table from a person I had been dating for only three months. I remember staring in each others eyes like nothing else in the world mattered at that moment. For the first time ever I had actually felt that someone's happiness mattered more than my own. I couldn't say at that moment it was love, but it felt like it. However, with those feelings came fear. Fear ran through my veins and instead of me being the lover I should have been it pushed me to a darker side that I wasn't able to overcome at the time. I have never stopped thinking about that person since we mutually ended our relationship in April of 2007. And that's why I know I was in love with that person.

So now, have you been in love?