sacrifice for true love!?

Question

What would you sacrifice for true love?
-My career
-My pride
-Everything
-Nothing

Answer 1

At 35 years of age, I sacrificed everything I had worked 20+ years to build up in my life (successful and lucrative career path, secure financial future because of this, savings, ability to purchase my own home, I left my home country, my mother tongue, my family, my friends, my identity behind, etc. )... because I loved completely for the first time. I thought he was 'the one'.

Unfortunately (!), after we married, he changed completely and there was a lot of emotional and financial deceit involved.

So it appears to me no matter how much you love someone, there are no guarantees that anyone will love you back anywhere close to how much you love them. Whatever they tell you. And even if they marry you!!!

Not sure if I have learnt that love isn't everything afterall. And you must maintain balance in your life. As you are the only person who will look after your own interests and security. We are all so lucky to live in a stable country where we have rights. None of this is to be underestimated when making 'sacrifices'.

You cannot imagine being without until you are. Then it becomes clearer. The world is a far tougher and more unforviging place than it looks when you are in love.

Don't yet have the answers as to how you can safeguard yourself and your own interests from similar.

You could try maintaining a acritical awareness of how your loved one responds to you in many situations (especially more difficult ones for them!). But this tends to take the spontanaity out of things.

You might want to look at how much of their life they are sacrificing to be with you? Really. On a point by point basis along with what you're giving up (emotionally, financially, etc. - see list above). Don't make excuses for them such as, this will be really touch for him/her to have someone like me in his particular family/environment - this is his risk etc. You undervalue yourself and distort the big picture which may backfire.

I want to read the answers to this too!!! Keep writing in people!!!

Answer 2

True love is not about sacrificing anything, it’s about not worrying about what you need to sacrifice and realising what you want out of life and removing those things that won’t allow you to fulfil those goals, including having your true love. I can say that I have just recently found true love and have not had to “sacrifice” anything. It’s what you make of your situation that is important. True love is loving that person for who they are, what they do and where they are at in their life, then enjoying the rest of your lives together, being enriched by each other’s lives that eventually merges into one and the same.

Answer 3

for Love I would sacrifice everything as thats what I would expect my Love to do for me..... if you are truely in Love then you want everything to work out and sacrificies have to be made in this day and age....... I have a career but would gladly give it up if my Love said he wanted to start a family or move to the other side of the world, I dont think it makes you week it shows your love and devotion for your partner as long as he treats you with the same respect back..!

Answer 4

I think the only thing one sacrifices for true love is his/her ego(probably pride comes closest to it, in your question). It is a state of mind which allows us to truly love someone. A state of true love does not expect anything in return. It is not possessive, demanding or conditional. It is not lust.

Likewise for your partner. If s/he really loved you, why would s/he want you to sacrifice something? If you truly feel that you have sacrificed then you must question yourself if you are truly in love or are wanting your partner to feel obligated and therefore grateful to you. That's not love you are getting - but loyalty and it frequently turns out to be disappointing in the end.

But once you are in love and would like to enter into a relationship - the relationship may require some practical compromises, for its own sake. One may not do it, but it does not mean that you are ungrateful or not in love anymore.

Love uplifts a person. It can never be disappointing or humiliating.

Answer 5

i'm in love right now, and the only thing i'm sacrificing is: extra time with my friends (i still spend time with them, just not as much as when i was single) ... i think that love isn't a sacrifice... yeah you want to make the other person happy, but it doesn't take giving everything up for that to happen

Answer 6

to find my one true Soul Mate again, i would sacrifice everything i own, everything i have and everything i am, nothing beats that feeling when you look at your True Love or your Soul Mate, the 3 words in your head "I Love You" can never really express just how you feel for her or him.

Answer 7

for true love i would sacrifice everything

Answer 8

Everything including my life. I have been in love and still am. She doesn't want me though which hurts like hell. I would have died for the girl though. At the same time though as long as she is happy then that is the main thing,

Answer 9

make sure you know if YOUR love would be willing to make the same sacrifices

Answer 10

You shouldn't have to sacrifice anything, but unfortunately most of us do.