30 Things We Learn About Love Before We Turn 30

We learn the most about life and love in our 20s.

These were tough lessons for most of us. The wisest of these lessons we learned the hardest of ways. Through heartbreaks, through one-sided love and realisations that infatuations are not love.

And by the time we are nearing 30 we are still learning a lot about it, although experienced enough to write a book.

These lessons are for life.

1. Orgasms are not love and sex doesn’t mean a relationship.

2. You find a fair share of heartbreaks before finding love.

3. The real difference between infatuation and love.

4. Love happens more than once.

5. Sometimes you fall in love with a completely opposite person.

6. The number of years the relationship is old is not a marker of a strong relationship.

7. It is hard to let go of a person even when you are not in love with them.

8. You can talk for 24 hours on the phone with your love.

9. It is easy to confuse lust with love when we haven’t fallen in love.

10. We all think our first boyfriend/girlfriend is going to be the love of our life.

11. You may not like the person you love all the time.

12. When you are not in love, people in love look ugly.

13. When you are first hit by real love, you expected better but now you are surprised.

14. Love has a tendency to happen at the most unexpected times. For example – right before exams.

15. Not everyone is going to be happy that you are in love.

16. When you fall in love again that one feels like true love. But there’s no way of knowing.

17. Sometimes love hurts more than it heals.

18. Love can make stupendous fools out of us.

19. Vulnerability is directly proportional to how old the love is.

20. Love makes you afraid and fearless at the same time

21. All love songs make sense when in love.

22. Love makes you feel like you can do anything.

23. You will be surprised by how love changes you for the better and for the worst.

24. Love can be so scary that you can run away.

25. You almost understand why people kill themselves after heartbreaks.

26. Sometimes love is not supposed to last forever.

27. Some people are incapable of loving.

28. You can overdose on love to the point of staying away from your love for some alone time.

29. Lovemaking is a zillion times better than normal sex.

30. Everyone wants to be loved, but not everyone wants to go ahead and love.

30 down, 70 more to go!

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