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by: Heintji S. Soriano/

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” wrote Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning. People have different ways of loving somebody, shall wa count the ways? There have been many efforts to define kinds of love and to determine which one is related to happy and enduring relationships.

Some says that to keep any relationship brimming with love; whenever you’re wrong admit it, whenever you’re right shut up. This is true. But how to keep a relationship long-lasting? Commitment? I don’t think so. well it is all about understanding and forgiveness. How about attachment and closeness? For me, not really, though another effort to describe loving somebody is based on the lovers need for attachment. The sense of emotional but almost physical connection with a love one and of physical loss when a love one leaves. That is why others are usually anxious about their relationship and fret over it because they want to be close but worry that their partners will leave them.

Neither commitment nor attachment concludes that a relationship will last. It is when two people are bounded by true relationship, no distance is too far, no mood is too bad, no time is too long, and no difficult situation can tear them apart. I think that is the secret to a good and long-lasting relationship.