real love

Do you understand that I love you? Do you walk in the reality of all that this implies? People yearn for acceptance and learn at an early age which behaviors gain approval and which lead to rejection. They train themselves to act in acceptable ways even if it feels foreign to them and so they create a false self. This can also be described as an image to uphold. After living in this role for years it comes as an incomprehensible shock to them that I love their true self. I don’t love their image, because it is only that, an artificial construct. The revelation that I love the real you begins the process of redeeming the real you into my own likeness.