We all know love makes us crazy. Here are five things we shouldn’t do for love and five things we should.
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Too many broken hearts have fallen in the river
Too many lonely souls have drifted out to sea,
You lay your bets and then you pay the price
That The things we do for love, the things we do for love.
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Never do these things for love, ever. These actions do not flow from from the presence of love but from the absence of self-respect. Each constitutes a failure to love the self and dooms your relationship to endless dysfunction.
1. Sacrifice your dignity.
2. Abandon family and friends.
3. Say yes with your lips when your heart says no.
4. Enable unhealthy behavior or forgive the unforgivable.
5. Stay when you should go.
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Always do these things for love. These actions flow from healthy regard for yourself and your partner and ensure a properly aligned relationship in which both of you can grow and thrive.
1. Accept and do not try to change your partner.
2. Draw and enforce clear boundaries.
3. Leave your baggage at the door.
4. Be responsible for your actions and accountable for their consequences.
5. Treat your partner as first among equals.
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very noble initiative. you got my vote !