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What is Mature Love?

What is Mature Love?

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Bogdana & Frank Codispoti
Jan 14, 2025
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What is Mature Love?
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Immature couples argue about what happened in the past. Mature love fights for its future.

When we enter into a relationship, we often encounter different ideas about what love is. In our youth, it seems to us a storm of passions, full of drama and showdowns. However, with age and experience comes the understanding that true, mature love looks completely different. It is calm, confident and does not need proof.

Mature love is a relationship between mature and mentally grown-up people who have consciously chosen each other to share their happiness with each other. In such relationships, it is easy and comfortable to remain yourself without fear of condemnation and rejection by your partner. There is no place for fears, there is a place for inner freedom.

In mature love, there is always passion and fire, because sex begins much earlier than bed - it is born in moments of mental closeness and mutual understanding, in interest and attraction to each other, in attention and romantic courtship.

In mature relationships, they do not keep silent about what does not suit them, they are not afraid to express their feelings and talk to their partner, they are not afraid of conflicts, but learn to go through them together - because this is another way to get to know each other better, a way to get closer and show each other's value.

Adult relationships are not about consumption and someone owes something to someone, but about giving to each other, taking into account each other's interests, while respecting the healthy boundaries of both partners. This is thinking about what is important not only for yourself, but also for your partner, thinking not only about your comfort, but also the comfort of the one next to you.

In mature relationships, there is no place for grievances and accusations, they are always replaced by conversations with an open and sincere expression of your feelings, emotions and needs, and there is also a sincere desire to understand the feelings of your partner with respect and acceptance, while at the same time being able to separate his feelings from your own, without being absorbed by them.

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What distinguishes mature relationships from youthful love?

1. Mature love respects personal space

Mature partners understand that each person has their own life and their own boundaries. They do not invade your personal space, do not demand constant attention. They realize that sometimes people just need presence, without pressure and conversations.

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