Compatibility is key to determining whether you can make a long-term relationship with another person work.
However, love is irrational and has no specific purpose. It is a deep emotion that leads you to long for someone’s company, not because of their outlook on life but because your heart craves it.
You can be madly in love with someone with entirely different goals than yours and unable to build a lasting relationship with them. You can also establish a healthy alliance with someone compatible with you, but this relationship will not be based on genuine feelings.
To have a truly satisfying and stable romantic relationship, you must be in love with that person and compatible with each others life goals.
We often confuse love with security, and we also fool ourselves into thinking that we are compatible with someone just because we are in love with them and afraid to end the relationship.
But we must remember that life is only one, and our time wasted with the wrong person could be invested in someone worth it.