The 5 Gifts Your Love Should Give

These gifts are precious, rare, and should be what true love is about.

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As I look around at love these days I see many relationships that look and feel flat. I see people going through the motions of life together and surviving the daily rigors this life brings. I see very little romance, and passion. I’m an optimist and dreamer so it's not as if I’m not looking at what I see through negative lenses.

Love seems bland and relationships more of a chore.

I could be wrong. I obviously don’t see everything that goes on behind closed doors. My view is limited on the intimacies of couples I would agree. Yet I see so many relationships failing.., and the relationships that are still intact seem very lifeless.

Are chivalry and romance dead? Have we replaced it with friends with benefits, streaming services, and door dash? I don’t have an answer to that. I just know I feel laziness sweeping across the globe where love is concerned. The effort, where relationships are concerned, is at an all-time low and more and more people both male and female are content binge-watching shows and eating alone. Dating apps are a joke. Filters flood not only images but also who people really are.

I’m disheartened by the status quo as an old soul with a young heart, and I’m…

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