As a person who really does intend to walk, talk and live with compassion, I find it a challenge at times to stay clear on the path of love.

Am I being a bitch when I want my lover to take responsibility and accountability?

Should I just let it all go?

Would a true yogi just move on and forget anything happened?

When do you set a line on what is ok for you and your life?

Do I expect too much by asking those I love to stand in their greatness?

There is an old paradigm of love that proscribes self-sacrifice, apathy and a-forget-about-it mentality that does not really feel like love to me. How many wedding ceremonies include the passage, “Love means never having to say you are sorry.”

What a load of turnip growing bullshit.

Conscious adult relationships require us to take responsibility and to stand up for love.

I am standing up for love. I am tired of a sugar-coated, immature, I let everything slide while the volcano builds inside until I explode at the Starbucks when they get my coffee wrong type of love.

Love means I say I am sorry…to everyone and especially the ones I love.

Love means I take responsibility for my triggers, baggage, melodrama and love myself enough to do so even if it’s scary.

Love means facing the fear and choosing something powerful like putting on my big girl pants and being the first to reach out, or maybe the first to say good-bye.

The time for a new story love is now.

We can all write this story when we stand in the place of love and call those we love to it.

The wave of love is one of true freedom, connection and joy so let’s step into it, see who’s in here with us and call more to the beach…the water is fine.

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Ed: Bryonie Wise