Love Lessons from 100 Year Olds BRIGITTE.de

We can read about it, we can watch films and series and we can think about it endlessly – but how true love feels, what really matters in a partnership and what we can forgive a person we love, we only know when we have experienced it. Experience is probably the most powerful and valuable source of knowledge, especially in the area of ​​emotions. Feelings can neither be calculated nor simulated in a thought experiment – we have to experience them for better or for worse in order to really be able to say something about them …

In her great book "100 Years of Life" (Hoffmann and Campe), the author has collected stories from ten people aged 100 years or older – and one thing immediately stands out: love plays a big role in each of them! After we have already presented you with 20 wisdoms of 100-year-olds from Schweighöfer's book worth reading, there are now even 25 lessons on the subject of love and partnership.

25 love lessons from centenarians

"Respect and respect for a relationship are much more important than loyalty."

"No marriage bliss without love"

"If you doubt whether you should bind yourself, you are not a suitable partner: Then love is not big enough."

Love needs space.

"Loyalty is an inner attitude that has nothing to do with the daily form of a relationship."

"If the supposedly great love doesn't fight for you – forget it!"

"If you think you've found the love of your life, you have to do everything you can to keep it alive, you can't give up too soon."

"You can't wait your whole life for the other person to do what you expect them to do."

The great love is not always the love of life.

"Be sensible, understanding and there for each other – then the marriage will go well!"

"Take care of your partner and don't wait for them to take care of you!"

"Even if everything else is right in a relationship – love, sex, tenderness and money: if the other person is not faithful, you can only stand it."

You don't always have to be madly in love to love.

"One always loses in a love triangle."

"So check who binds himself forever – the delusion is short, the regret is long."

"Don't be blinded by too much beauty – Cupid can be wrong!"

The extent of love does not depend on the extent of passion.

"You expel your partner with expectations, demands and demands. You can wish for something – but you should never expect it."

"Those who trust each other are true to themselves."

Respect and trust are the basis of love.

"Love alone is not enough."

"Deep friendships with another man or another woman don't have to be a threat to a relationship."

"If the sex isn't right, the marriage isn't right either."

Responsibility is part of love.

"Love relationships, such as those between 20 and 50, are not the measure of all things."