Commitment is understanding that partnership isn’t always easy or convenient.

Commitment is more than calling someone your partner.

Commitment is more than changing your relationship status on Facebook.

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Jasmine Carter

Commitment is more than occasionally sharing date night pics to your Instagram Story.

Commitment is seeing the future in your persons eyes.

Commitment is feeling at home in their arms.

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Commitment is designing a life that can only work if theyre part of it.

Commitment is an investment, a gamble, and an act of hope.

Commitment is understanding that partnership isnt always easy or convenient.

Commitment sometimes means putting them first instead of yourself.

Commitment is about seeing things from their point of view.

Commitment is giving your best even when youre at your worst.

Commitment is not wanting the perfect relationship because that means you two wouldnt be together.

Commitment is navigating the fights and the disagreements with as much grace and compassion as you might humanly muster.

Commitment is when you stay when things get really fucking hard.

Commitment is knowing thingswillget really fucking hard from time to time.

Commitment is turning to your person and saying, I cant do this on my own.

Commitment is your partner replying with, You dont have to.

Commitment is about embracing the chaos, messiness, and pain that come with being alive and human.

Love is about walking through the storms together.

Commitment is taking your partner as they actually are, not as who you wish they could be.

This includes their darkness, their quirks, and their bad habits.

Commitment is loving the hell out of them anyway.

Commitment is saying, I see you, I love you, and I want to be with you.

Commitment is living up to your word.