Feb '96 Characteristics of Real Love True love will have the characteristics listed in 1 Corinthians 13, paraphrased here. Love is slow to lose patience. It doesn't demonstrate irritations or reflect anger or have a quick temper. It has fully accepted the character of the one loved.
Love looks for a way to be constructive.
Love is actively creative. It is able to recognize needs. It discovers successful methods of improving or contributing to the other's life. Love is not possessive. Love does not hold exclusive control where one is allowed little or no freedom to fulfill himself apart from the one who loves him.