Love is a beautiful thing that can happen to anyone. It feels good to love and be loved back, to have a special someone in life to create memories with.

Love is like a seed that you sow, nurture it into a young seedling and it grows into a plant. Love develops depending on how you nurture it.

Love is a feeling that you have towards someone. Someone may ask, do I like or love him? When you like something let's say a flower, you will pluck it, but if you love you will water it, nurture it. Liking may just be a crush. Loving, one wants to spend time with them, do things that make them happy, have butterflies on seeing them and much more.

Just like a seed which goes through stages as it develops so is love. Each of this stages require some input from both parties. Love should be a two way thing.

However, not all love stories are bound to be. This may be due to some of the mistakes below that partners make knowingly or unknowingly in the journey of love, end up hurting each other.

One is, getting into a relationship for the wrong reasons such as peer pressure, as a revenge for previous ex, afraid of being lonely among other reasons. Wrong entry into a relationship mostly is with the wrong person and at a wrong timing. Peer pressure should not make one jump into a relationship with just anyone in order to fit in in a particular group, be like so and so. Love happens at any age and time, no need to rush things going into something you are not prepared for thus disappointments.
After a break up, give yourself time to heal, do not rush to get into a relationship fresh from a break up. Most likely you will carry on the hurt into the new relationship, you are yet to give yourself time to cool off, figure yourself out, get over your ex.
Avoid getting into a relationship because you are afraid of being lonely. Most likely you...