I have no misconceptions about love. I have seen too many romantic movies and read too many fairytales to know that love is not a simple 'happily ever after'. i don't think that all you need is to find 'the one' and everything else will fall into place.

Honestly, I have no idea why people relate love to this magical feeling where someone is all starry-eyed and doting and neither one can do anything wrong.

Because this whole idea that love is perfection and love is calm waters is a horrible way to introduce someone to what loving you could feel like.

I'm human. I will make mistakes. And you and I are so very different. There will be times when we just simply cannot agree with one another, there will be times when one of us is wrong, and in those times what will you think about love? Will you consider yourself having fallen out of love? Because of course you will have an argument, of course there will be tears and a feeling that they don't understand you at all, so what now? do you just give up?

Because that's the kind of love we are being taught. The kind that makes you question the bad times, the kind that give you no room to be angry or make a mistake or call someone out on something they did, because if you do then according to the standards set by "romantic notions" you couldn't possibly be in love.

But you are, you know you are. and that's why all this stuff feels so wrong. Love is supposed to be everything including the bad

times, especially the bad times. Because when you love someone, really love someone, even when you fight you're always on the same team.