The person who loves you gives the future, and the person you like only gives the present

While scrolling through my phone late at night, I was suddenly hit by a message on my social media feed: 'He gave me the hottest bag of the season, but never asked me which city I want to live in next year.'. This sentence is like a small stone, thrown into the heart with a splash, creating ripples that make it impossible to sleep. The most luxurious thing in a relationship is never a gift of flowers, but someone willing to write you into their life story.

1. Exposure to emotional concentration in the time dimension

1. Short term pleasure vs. long-term planning

Like is the best way to invite you to eat The newly opened internet celebrity store, love is remembering that you are allergic to Sichuan pepper; I like to dress up carefully for a candlelight dinner, and love silently heats up the food when you work overtime. The former pursues immediate pleasure dopamine, while the latter secretes stable companionship oxytocin.

2. Danger When encountering difficulties, liking may turn into "why don't we calm down for a few days first", while love usually says "let's find a solution together". Just like a mobile phone battery level alert, like a 20% warning, love always carries a fully charged power bank.

2. Decision Weight Reflects Relationship Value

1. Answer to Life Choice Questions

When faced with major decisions such as urban migration and career choices, people like to say "Wishing you all the best" and people like to ask "How should we adjust". The former is like encountering scenery on a journey, while the latter is a GPS for shared navigation.

2. Priority of resource allocation

Observe his investment direction in time, money, and attention: he likes to clear your shopping cart for you, and Love will reserve emergency funds for you; Like liking your selfies, love will remember the dentist appointment you mentioned.

3. Growth trajectory reveals true thickness

1. Performance inside and outside the comfort zone

Enjoy your best side, love will repair your broken moments. Just like fitness, the former praises you for having a beautiful vest line, while the latter is willing to serve as a protective bar when you squat deeply.

2. The possibility of co evolution

True love will give birth to a tacit growth like a dance of two people: you help organize information when he takes the professional title exam, and he volunteers to be a taster when you learn baking. Both of them stand in each other's blueprints for the future, like intertwined branches growing together.

Judging a relationship should not only be based on the sweetness at the moment, but also on whether it can still nourish each other over the years. Next time on a date, why not try this "future test": talk about life scenes in five years, observe whether the light in the other person's eyes is flickering for fantasy or shining because of you.

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