Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes.
Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
The life and love we create is the life and love we live.