Love Covers

"Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins." 1 Peter 4:8 (NASB)
I used to understand love covering a multitude of sin as: if I love you, I can easily overlook your transgressions.  Still true, but I have experienced another meaning as well: when YOU love ME, I can easily overlook your transgressions.  In fact, when I know you love me, your minor infractions are less likely to seem like transgressions.  And if you do transgress, it will break my heart but won't make me hate you.
Love is about relationships, and while the nature of sin is to damage relationships, love is about building and restoring them.
My closest friends can walk into my kitchen and get a soda pop out of the fridge or make a cup of coffee or hot chocolate just like my family can and I won't think twice about it, because we have established that kind of relationship.  If a stranger walked into my home and helped himself, I would put up a fight.
Love covering sin should never be an excuse for allowing laws to be broken, abuse to continue, boundaries to be violated, or someone's bad behavior to become your temptation.  More about that here.  In fact, if we're motivated by love, we are more likely to extend the benefit of the doubt, and less likely to behave offensively in the first place.
"Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs." Proverbs 10:12 (NIV)
Is there enough love in your heart that you can easily forgive when someone offends you?  Is there enough love in your life that someone can easily forgive you when you slip up?