Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, one of the most notable writers in the European Romantic era, more commonly recognised by her pen name, “George Sand”, delivered some timeless wisdom to the world, when she said:

“There is only one happiness in this world… to LOVE and to BE LOVED.” And the scholarly Greek Philosopher Aristotle, in his efforts to describe that wonderful, magical and other-worldly quality that we all know as “love”, put it rather beautifully when he said that: “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”

Both of these quotes definitely touch the heart, but you gotta admit, that man Aristotle suuuuure had a way with words! He must have been a total babe magnet back in the day! Now, perhaps you’d think that with something as amazing as love, people would put the time, energy and effort into getting it right, right? Well… nope. Sadly, you’d be… wrong.A lot of people do not make the effort. And rather depressingly, most of us are loving in completely wrong ways, and these days, you’d been joining a long list of sorrowful souls who have come to believe that “real love” is an unattainable prize.

Let’s take a look at the facts. A study conducted by Siemens found that a whopping 73% of people are merely “making do” in their relationships, but don’t realy feel much “love” at all. For all you mathematics nerds out there, if we put this into perspective, it means that if you and your spouse go to a dinner with another couple – statistically-speaking – only one person out of the four of you at that table is actually in love. That’s so crazy… and so sad at the same time! Now, you might be saying to yourself right now, “who even cares?… life ain’t The Notebook or High School Musical!”. […]