true love

noun8

1. •
   Feelings of love that are adhered to faithfully, or the faithful manifestation of such feelings.

   • What are the joys wealth and honours bestow? Do they endure like true love's steady glow? — 1850
2. •
   The form of romantic affection that is considered pure and wholly positive, not just based on feelings of lust and sex.

   • Some believe that true love doesn’t exist.
3. •
   A lover who is faithful to the object of his or her affection or faithfully loved themselves.

   • I leant my back unto an aik, I thought it was a trusty tree; But first it bow’d, and fyne it brak, Sae my true love did lightly me. — 1765
4. •
   The unique individual for whom one feels such affection.

   • He was my one true love.
5. •
   A thing for which a person feels an intense love.

   • Cinematography is my only true love.
6. •
   Love that is in some sense purer or more unique than ordinary love.
7. •
   The situation in which a couple is perfectly compatible and there is no better relationship, as set by a greater force such as God or fate.
8. •
   Faithful love.