What does true love feel like?

[ChandlerBong]

What does true love feel like?
I like to think ive felt it but now i question whether it was real due to what i now know about that relationship. I have never felt that same way about anyone else or my current partner.

I missed him when I was still with him.

He died 6 years ago. Missing him after that ripped my soul apart some days. Appreciate every day.

If you are talking about the 'long lasting' love that comes after the short term 'high' of semi-blind infatuation love, I think Vintage Love: What does it look like? is a great article to read

People in Vintage Love are not distracted by conflict, they have developed great communication skills and boundary skills. They have become deeply self-aware and kind and understanding (forgiving) to themselves. And along the way they have aggressively cooperated in removing reactivities, tendencies that made sense when they were children and are now interfering (psycohological wounds).

I don't think I've ever really had the fireworks thing, but I knew I wanted my DH in my life from the day I met him. He was seeing someone else at the time, so I didn't think about him in a romantic way at first, but a year later I suddenly realised I was in love with him (he was single by this point).

With every previous relationship there's always been drama, I worried what my friends thought, stressed about what he meant by things he said, etc; with DH I didn't care what anyone else thought, I just knew he was the one for me. And there was no game playing. We have our ups and downs but he is my absolute partner and I cannot imagine living my life without him. We trust and respect each other, make each other laugh, fancy each other. Every problem we have we solve together.