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1. KNOW THE TRUE MEANING OF LOVE. You often tell yourself and your friends that you’re in love, but do you really know what love is? 1 John 16:4 says…God is love, whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

2. PRAY CONSTANTLY. Having commitments requires God’s guidance and His loving concern. When you pray, you just don’t ask and ask for things to happen or be given unto you, but continue to seek His will through sincere prayers, and you’d be able to hear His voice speaking to you.

3. BE PATIENT. Don’t get tired of praying and waiting for the right time and right person. “Love is patient, Love is kind…as what 2 Corinthians 4:13 says, so you shouldn’t stop praying, waiting and loving.

4. LET GOD BE THE CENTER OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP. A commitment with someone may become a way of serving God together with a person who means a lot to you. Entrusting a relationship to God gives you an assurance that whatever happens, it is God’s will.

5. LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES. Out of the struggles, pains, tears and sufferings you’ve been through, you can dig a lot of virtues and lessons that would get you going even through toughest times. Faith in God will help you to stand after the stumbles you’ve had.

6. STAY ROOTED IN GOD’S WORD. This is one sure way of knowing if you’re doing the right thing, and if you’re doing it with the right person at the right time.

7. GIVE EACH OTHER SPACE. Being in love with somebody does not mean you have to spend every single second of your life with that person. There are times when you need to miss each other, so you won’t come up to a point when you’ll say, “I’m growing tired of seeing you or being with you.” Sometimes, it’s true that “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

8. LOVING MEANS GIVING. Giving means understanding, sacrificing, having an understanding mind and heart.

9. WHEN YOU HAVE TO LET GO, LET GO. No matter how painful it is, life should go on, you must move on and leave the past behind. It may seem impossible to get over a heartbreak at first, but as life goes on, you’ll realize that those heartbreaks made you stronger, wiser and better.

10. SET YOUR PRIORITIES, STICK TO IT. Keep in mind that there are a lot of things that should be on top of your list other than your relationship. Your studies as well as other commitments require much attention, so you shouldn’t take everything too seriously. Let things happen on their own and let them take their own course.

11. KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS. Being at a young age makes you vulnerable to compromises especially to this world. Be persistent in saying no to things you know you shouldn’t do. You should draw the line when things get out of hand, and see to it that you are understood when you say no.

12. LOVE TO THE FULLEST. Only through loving and showing it will you be able to say that you time wasn’t wasted with somebody. When you love someone, be sure that the one you love feels special and loved through your words and deeds.

If you want to know what is love…

Consult to 1Cor13

& it will give you what you need.