Why does love ... fade?

• True love doesn't fade.
  
  Love is a living, breathing, dynamic entity that grows and changes over the years. If you take it for granted and forget to nurture it, it can die without so much as a whisper... but it doesn't just fade like a photo sitting in the sun too long. What some younger people think of as love isn't love at all, it's the excitement and thrill of that initial spark of attraction that brings you and the object of your affection together. That's not love, that's survival of the species.
  
  
  Love is what binds the two of you together once that initial attraction runs its course and the god/goddess like qualities of your beloved are laid bare and stripped away. Love is what happens when the proverbial thrill is gone and all that's left is the two of you; stark naked, shivering and flawed as all humans are. When you can put all of your partners weaknesses, faults and shortcomings under the magnifying glass and walk away feeling grateful for having found the one person who completes and compliments you so perfectly that you wouldn't have them any other way, that's love.
  
  True love doesn't fade.
  
  It ebbs and flows like the ocean. Sometimes you'll find yourself caught up in the day-to-day grind and you'll forget that you're sharing that monotony with the most incredible person on the planet... it's easy to forget sometimes. But then one night you'll come home from a hard day at work and find a vase of freshly cut flowers, a fire burning and a candle lit dinner on the table and suddenly you're reminded of the person who turned your life upside down, inside out and made it exactly what you always wanted it to be. It's also easy to remember, but like I said, love is something that you have to nuture and care for as you would any living, breathing thing. If left alone to stagnate, it will die... but it doesn't just fade away.
  
  Love is what saves your life when you're at the lowest point you've ever known. A wise man once said "the lowest ebb is the turn of the tide", and that's true. Love won't show up when you're looking for it, you may think it has... but be wary. Love likes to save the day, it doesn't want to be chased. Love only arrives when you have let go of the hope of ever finding it and go on with your life, fully accepting that you are just one of those people who are destined to be single forever. When you accept and embrace this, truly and completely with every molecule of your being... that's when love will find you.
  
  True love doesn't fade.