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Is love enough?

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There has been a lot of times in my life where I thought love was enough. That if you have someone you love and who loves you back, that's enough; everything else just falls in line with it. In a manner, that is true too, because when you love someone, you do work to maintain it. But for the longest time, I thought efforts were a given, I did not even know how do you actually put in efforts, especially in a romantic relationship. Still don't. It is only after I dated that I realized, more like it struck me that relationships require constant and consistent efforts, they require you to be vulnerable, to be communicative, to work on yourself as a part of making the relationship work. Love - is different for each of us. The very definition of 'falling in love', will vary from person to person. Maybe it is the same for some, but from what I have seen, it isn't. What comes along with love is the need and want to communicate, vulnerability, the fear of losing your signifi...