If you follow me on social media (@AudriWrites), you get a weekly dose of love and life lessons. However, I decided to condense those into one list of 10 of the greatest love lessons. This post should be your one-stop shop for lessons on love that are most critical to the evolution of your ability to recognize and love in the purest form.

HERE ARE 10 LESSONS OF LOVE

1 FORGIVENESS DOES NOT HAVE CONDITIONS!

Forgiveness in love should always be done with the expectation to accept what is and move on. You can't do that if you continue to place conditions on your ability to forgive someone, because when forgiveness has conditions, that person will never really be forgiven... (Click the subtitle to read more on why forgiveness should not have conditions!)

2 SELF-LOVE IS THE GREATEST LOVE!

To put it plainly, you can't tell someone how you need to be loved if you have no experience loving yourself!

3 YOU CAN'T CHANGE PEOPLE!

A great lesson of love is acceptance and knowing that you cannot change people! If you are in a relationship with someone you cannot accept, either walk in the fact that you will never be able to love that individual wholeheartedly or address those things you can't accept and see if that person values you enough to change themself!

4 EXPECTATIONS ARE ASSUMPTIONS!

We like to use the word expectation interchangeably with standards when expectations are presumptions or assumptions of behavior and anticipated events. Your standards have nothing to do with your expectations, so make sure you know the difference. Life is much easier if lived without expectations.

Click HERE to read more on why life is better without expectation!

5 COMPROMISING YOURSELF IS NOT COMPROMISE!

Too many people confuse the idea of compromising oneself with compromising in a situation, and unfortunately, this is primarily because we blur the lines between marriage and non-marital relationships. You can't be in a relationship in the absence of marriage and expect an individual to act as one would in a marriage!

If you struggle to identify the difference between compromising yourself and compromising in a situation, be sure to read the difference HERE!

6 ACCEPTANCE AND FORGIVENESS ARE LIFE'S GREATEST CHALLENGE!

It's no secret that we live in a world that promotes self-preservation, which yields a self-serving attitude. Therefore, it should be no surprise that acceptance and the ability to forgive are among life's greatest challenges.

In order to accept others, we have to first desire to be accepted, and that lesson usually comes from a family member or someone closest to us. To have someone you accept not accept you is the greatest lesson of your inability to accept others.

With regard to forgiveness, it isn't until we ask someone we love dearly to forgive us that we make an honest attempt to be forgivable. Once we try hard to gain forgiveness, we realize that forgiving someone, while it may be a challenge, is one of the most rewarding lessons in life.

7 ATTRACTION IS LOVE'S BEST FRIEND!

You desire to obtain everything you need in a relationship because of attraction. We don't realize that there are four types of attraction that are keys to relationships: Physical, Social, Intrapersonal, and sexual. Understanding the role of attraction is important to understanding how and why a relationship will or will not work. Attraction is the bridge to love that we must build to love wholeheartedly.

If you missed the post on the 4 types of attraction, click HERE to read more.

8 THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOLDING A GRUDGE AND ACCOUNTABILITY!

Too many people want to assume that holding someone accountable for their actions is the same as holding a grudge, and it most certainly is not. Holding a grudge is petty, and holding someone responsible for their actions is just a representation of your valuing yourself.

9 THE POWER OF CHOICE IS OUR GREATEST DOWNFALL!

The power to choose is our best friend and worst enemy. While we value our ability to make our own decisions and choices, we also fall victim to that same freedom.

When we are unhappy with the consequences of our choices and actions, we like to deem ourselves victims when, in fact, we are not. We have to be accountable for our poor judgment and learn to make better choices in the future, considering all possible outcomes.

10 SOLITUDE IS NECESSARY IN THE PROCESS OF SELF-ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND SELF-IMPROVEMENT!

You can't learn yourself if you don't spend time with yourself. Knowing yourself is your best asset in love because you can properly communicate what you need in and from love to your partner.

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