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You Have Been Misinformed: Does Love Require Compromise?

Occasionally I come across a person who is passionately sharing their ideas, and views on life that are in my opinion very skewed. These people and their opinions make for very lively conversation, and it becomes even more hilarious when they site social media posts as the source of these new found ideals. I have not walked the earth for that long, and I absolutely do not claim to be a relationship expert, but this new theory that "You should not have to compromise for love." is completely absurd. The person who proceeded to engage me in a very heated argument was Misinformed about what it means to compromise, and definitely misinformed about what it means to love. The definitions of compromise are listed below: com·pro·mise ˈkämprəˌmīz/ noun 1 . an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. "an ability to listen to two sides in a dispute, and devise a compromise acceptable to both" synonyms: a...