For those of you who are in a healthy relationship with people you love, how do you know that s/he is the right one for you? How do you know that you love each other?

I've had my eye on someone for several years now, and I don't know if I really love him or if it's just a simple crush that happened to extra-long this time.

Help?

In my case two things helped:

• during one of our crisis, we decided to have a "pause" in the relationship. During that time I realized that I missed her, and that her absence evoked pretty strong emotions in me, indicating that I had "feelings" for her (call it love or whatever).
• after a couple of years of relationship, I could recognize that it was still healthy, which gave me more confidence for the future, and an interest in moving forward with the relationship

I believe that true love is doing anything for your partner no matter what the circumstances. A gross, but hardcore example: me and my GF got Chinese takeout one nite. Right in the middle of the night, she gets up and goes to the toilet because of diahrea, then all of the sudden starts puking her guts out at the same time because of the food (which strangely didn't affect me at all). It was nasty, but due to the food chunks in my shower I cleaned it up for her. Some would call this "true love".

>>2 knows what they're talking about, I recognize similar things in my 2 year long relationship.

Love comes and goes for me when I'm with my GF. When she gets mad and we fight, I won't deny something in me thinks it would be easier to dump her and not worry. But once we make up, love comes back. Its hard to describe, but one further thing that makes me think its love is that we can be together for 90% of our daily time, and we're still not sick of each other 2 years later.

it doesn't exist, i'm sorry time for you to grow up and stop living in candy purple land.

1. accept each other
2. Love is shown through actions and sacrifices, NOT words
3. Do not let jealousy take over
4. Respect each other's personal space and time
5. Pay attention to important things
6. Be yourself
7. Do not cheat
8. Try your best to be by ur lover's side when he/she needs u
9. Do not be overprotective or anythng extreme
10. Love grows 5centimeters per second, slowly bt surely

lol. I sounded like a prophet :p i hope it all works out fine.

>>5
kinda lolled at 10