From the author: “...And love is what remains when passion passes...” 1. True love is always a choice Falling in love and passion are something that you cannot control. These feelings just appear towards a specific person and there is nothing you can do about it. At the same time, true love is a conscious choice that you make every day. It is a decision to love your partner and do everything to make him feel loved and supported. You may sometimes quarrel or disagree on some issues, but despite this, you will make every effort to maintain a relationship with this person. 2. When you truly love, your partner's needs and desires are as important to you as your own. When you are simply in love, then your needs and desires are much more important to you than your partner's needs. In this case, first of all, you will think only about how to satisfy all your desires. And when you really love, you want all the best for your loved one. You are happy when your partner is happy. Therefore, you will try in every possible way to help him become happy. 3. True love is not subject to time. If you are simply passionate about someone and all you feel is passion, then this state will not last too long and will pass quickly. But true love does not fade with time. Thanks to time, it only gets stronger and becomes even stronger. You may even break up with your partner, but if you really loved him, then these warm feelings will never leave you. The same thing happens when you cannot constantly see or be near your loved one. After all, if this is true love, then this will not make it smaller or disappear altogether - it will continue to live in your heart and even grow stronger every day.4. True love is the ability to let go. If only passion prevails in your feelings for your partner, then you physically feel the need to own this person. You want to be close to him all the time and you almost panic when you don’t know where and what he’s doing now. And the very thought that you might break up brings you incredible pain. But when you really love, then, of course, you also want to spend as much time as possible together, but it is not a problem for you to spend time apart from each other. After all, you love and trust your partner, and you also understand that everyone needs their own space from time to time. The same applies when your loved one wants to leave you. Of course, you will be very sad and hard, but if this is his conscious choice, if this is what will make him happy, then you will respect this choice and try to let go. After all, if you truly love this person, you sincerely want him to be happy, even if it means letting him go to seek that happiness with someone else.5. True love is not an overwhelming flow of emotions that should last forever. Passion and love seem to knock you off your feet and cover you headlong with its flurry of emotions and feelings. But it disappears as quickly and without a trace as it appears. It’s as if you’re burning out and there’s simply nothing left in your soul after such an “emotional swing.” In the case of true love, everything is different. True love is not a stream of emotions that comes in waves and disappears just as quickly. True love is the constancy of emotions, it is a hearth that warms you with its constant and even warmth.6. True love is a partnership. If your feelings for your partner are dominated by passion, then you seem to want to appropriate it for yourself. Therefore, of course, in this case, there can be no talk of a real partnership. But if you both truly love each other, you will try to be true partners. You will try to solve everything together, look for compromises and listen to each other. After all, love