True love involves appreciating the people, objects, and situations in our lives without desperately needing them to provide us with pleasure. The constant evaluation of whether a person, a thing, or a circumstance serves our personal interests fades away. Most of us have never been fully immersed in true love, but it literally takes no effort to experience it once The Thought-Storm lets up. In this state, Status Quo love is exposed as the fraud that it is, comprised of transactional relationships rooted in compulsive neediness.
