Personal Love Dictionary

If you search for advice for establishing and maintaining a healthy relationship, the one thing you will hear/read again and again is “good communication”. With experience I found out that it doesn’t matter how much you talk to each other, if you don’t have the same word definitions there can be no good communication. To prevent this before it gets to be a problem, I’ve decided I am going to create a personal love dictionary. Even if it doesn’t help, it certainly can’t hurt. The following list of word definitions is nowhere near complete.

Crush

Person who keeps invading your thoughts at the most inconvenient moments.

Falling In Love

Situation were you go through life looking like a complete fool to everyone else and not caring about that at all. You make stupid choices because you can’t concentrate on anything. You don’t need nourishment or sleep to keep going, even breathing seems optional. Despite all that you are absolutely certain everything will turn out fantastic.

Being In Love

Situation where you are grinning like an idiot at random times throughout the day. Triggers include seeing a picture, seeing a name, random thought and taking a breath. Also, cheesy love songs all sound completely reasonable and you often find yourself humming them.

Love

When you willingly, without hesitation, would take on the other’s burden so they may suffer less.

Desire

Affliction where your senses have gotten a mind of their own and decided they should be seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting this person right now.

Longing

A physical protest of your senses because they are not seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and tasting this person right now. Manifests itself in many deep sighs.

Lover

Person your senses have fixated on. Cause of previously unknown bliss. Also potential cause of previously unknown pain.

Partner

Person who, when life makes you exclaim “Holy Shit!”, stands next to you, squeezes your hand and responds “I know, right?”

Relationship

Situation where two (or more) people decided they are going to tackle life’s setbacks, and celebrate life’s victories, together.

Commitment

State of mind where other potential lovers and partners fail to register.

Spouse

Person who you decided you really want to find out all the little ways they irritate you. Ideally your spouse is also your lover and your partner, giving you the strength and patience to ignore those little things indefinitely.

Conflict

Situation where the egos of the people in the relationship have different goals. Having your egos out of alignment will inevitably hurt said egos.

Fight

When each person is trying to inflict as much pain on the other, as they inflicted on them.

Making Up

When the distress of seeing the other in pain is greater than the satisfaction of seeing them in as much pain as you.