How To Be A Good Companion: 007 Recommendation.

When you can’t love your companion back ‘as much as’ they love you, what should you do?

You would agree with me that love is not a thing you can always control or decide. Love is usually not created; it happens instead. This is why someone can love even your worst enemy. Since this is so, you cannot exactly make yourself love someone unless you genuinely do love the person. I believe that it could be easy to camouflage in 'action'; however, you cannot possibly fake an emotion. If you don’t feel it, you don’t feel it, period –it’ll rather just be sheer acting.

This is one of the reasons a person may love someone who hurts them so badly, both physically and emotionally. Someone may find it hard to leave or end a toxic relationship. We may love someone who doesn’t even care about us. In other words, we may feel left behind. Consequently, and in a way to heal, we may now falsely affirm that we don’t care. We become hard and rigid as a means of helping ourselves to live on and survive. Sadly, this may be an outright lie that we strive to project into our reality. Really, we cannot just decide to love or not love someone. It is an emotional event that cannot really be changed by mere decisions.

Now, what should/can we do in this case? There are well-meaning and harmless ways to go about this kind of situation/circumstance. No doubt, honesty is key, respectable and praise-worthy. Thus, there is no need to pretend. First, respect their feelings and appreciate them unreservedly for valuing you. Secondly, if there’s anything you appreciate about their personality, be free to mention them and emphasize them. Also, even if you cannot pay back their love well enough, let them know that you are fortunate to have them, and that you’ll be unlucky to ever lose them. The important thing is, appreciate them and respect their feelings, while you remain true and real to yourself.