Love is a messy, complex, and sometimes heart-breaking business. Here, Stylist readers reveal the hard-earned advice they’ve learned along the way:
“The best piece of advice I’ve ever received about love is to ‘love the person that treats you the best’. It was advice I got from my aunt when she so candidly reminisced about her 30-plus years of relationship with her husband. It made me overlook all the ‘superficial things’ and really focus on character. This piece of advice led me to David, my husband. He honestly would’ve failed all the criteria I had for a future husband because they were focused on superficial things.
“My mother is right about a lot of things but this one, I really felt. She told me that love often comes along when you’re least expecting it. If you find yourself seeking it out too much, instead of just enjoying your life and allowing it to come in as an added bonus to the life you already have, it won’t appear. Just enjoy yourself, focus on you and love will find you.
“Love is unconditional – that’s what I learned from my Nanna who passed away a year ago. She was very conservative in being demonstrative with love and affection vocally – very much British stiff upper lip and a lady of a Victorian-esque upbringing where one has decorum always. But in her actions, she just oozed with love for her whole family and not least my grandfather who passed away several years before her.
“The best advice I’ve been given was from my mum. My marriage was failing and I felt pretty hopeless and scared for the future. But I still stayed. I kept trying to make it work, only to come to the exact same conclusion: my marriage was clearly over. My mum told me that; ‘staying is a choice’ and it’s that single piece of advice that taught me to love myself enough to leave.”As for me? The best advice I’ve ever received about love was from a colleague.
is such an essential trait in any partner, and now, on the year I turn 30 and put my tumultuous 20s behind me, I think I might have finally found that kind person who could be my forever.: “When you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”Sign up for the latest news and must-read features from Stylist, so you don't miss out on the conversation.
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