Investments

If there's one 

thing I have learned, its that people do not understand how much work a relationship takes. People don't understand that after the "honeymoon" phase of a relationship its all about working. You have to invest, invest, invest your love into someone else or else your love will no longer grow. Love needs to grow to stay alive, just like anything else. If your love isn't growing well then sadly its dying. Not only does one person need to invest love in a relationship but both people do. If only one person is investing then only one side of their love is growing while the other one is dying. I think I did that a lot, invested my love into people who weren't willing to invest back and I didn't invest when I should have. Everyone reads fairy tales and hears stories about how easy love should be, well its not, not one damn bit. Nothing is easy so why would we begin to think that for half a second that love is easy? Everyone knows that love is the most complicated thing... it is never easy. People are always so quick to give up on their love, on their relationships if fights start to happen or if things aren't going quite as smoothly as they used to, they say they aren't meant to be and walk away. If your house has a leak do you just move? No you fix it. You mend it, patch it, call a guy to vacuum out the water, you never just walk away. If only people were like houses. You have to keep doing the little things that you did at the beginning of your relationship like holding hands, or leaving short love notes for your partner. The little things are more important than you think, they help keep your love alive, keep it growing. Invest invest invest. Just like you do in anything else, work, school, family. If both people invest the love will stay alive, if only one person invests the other person will feel half wanted and it will crash your relationship, if both do not invest, the love will fade away and there will be nothing left except the hint of love they started with. If two people don't invest in their relationship  it wont grow, it will either be stuck at the starting point or fizzled out, that's with any relationship weather it be friendship, family, or a boyfriend or girlfriend. You have to meet half way in your investment,no one can be investing more than the other. I have seen and have had a lot of relationships die over no one investing. Its not that  the love wasn't there, love has a potential to be anywhere, its that it wasn't given a chance to grow, no one invested in it. Remember that relationships take investing, love takes investing and hard work, and if you and your significant other remember this your love will keep growing and you will have something special. Wait for someone who is willing to invest in you, to give you their all no matter how much work it takes, and show them that you are willing to invest in them too. Love means investing and hard work, it means supporting each other even when leaks start to happen.