Does love put pressure on the people you love?
No. According to Paul, love does not vaunt itself or become arrogant, and it does not try to put pressure on the subjects of your love. True agape love is God-centered, patient, kind, and selfless, never manipulative or coercive. Instead, it suffers long and is kind.
Les explains that biblical love is not the erotic love Hollywood promotes but agape love that is God-centered and only true believers can exercise. He notes that love does not vaunt itself, meaning it is not egotistical or arrogant, and it does not try to put pressure on the subjects of your love. Love is not easily provoked, thinks no evil, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, and never fails. Les uses Abraham Lincoln and Stanton as an example of godly love persevering despite mistreatment, showing that love does not coerce or pressure others but remains patient and selfless.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,