We find a relationship and feel some true love and we are very happy. For a while. Then some conflict or distance or routine settles in and we seem to lose it some.

What can we do to keep the true love we once found? How do we keep our marriage or relationship strong? How do we keep from having things slowly slide down hill? This is a useful and worthwhile question I think most all of us have faced.

There are lots of answers and issues to consider when it comes to true love. There is definitely not one simple answer to keeping true love going strong.

For now we will look at one aspect of keeping the true love you find. And that is to learn to take off your mask with your partner. True love requires us to be authentic and genuine in the relationship.

We all wear masks. For example, some of us are good girls. We try not to argue, try not to make waves, try to be pleasing and helpful. Others of us wear independent masks. We try to appear like we’ve got it together, we’ve got it handled, we don’t need help. There is nothing wrong with these masks.

Such masks can get in the way in our love life. If you are a good girl all the time and don’t take off that mask, you can get taken for granted and give all the time while receiving nothing. If you don’t stand up for yourself you could get minimized.

And the independent strong type needs to learn to take off that mask and let their partner in. To be vulnerable and discuss the parts of yourself wear you feel stress and not so together.

We need to learn to take off our masks with our partners. True love cannot grow in a relationship that is not genuine and based on the truth. Wearing a mask all the time, trying to put on your best persona, will kill off true love because you have to be real and honest to keep love going strong.