Is life-long love an old-fashioned idea that no longer works? ( Archived) (25)

48 years

I agree with you!

I agree

If you start off thinking its not going to work,it want.If you start off thinking positive and both give it 100% it will.Attitude,after all is every thing....Yes mr.Op Love is alive and well!

I have never been one to subservient, so that along with poor choices put me through two marriages. I divorced both of them and just maybe one day I will meet someone who will like me as I am. So now are there any men out there who are not controlling, arrogant, and egotistical who think I can't live without them?

life-long love in my opinion never existed but older generations simply respected commitments even when the "honeymoon period" came to an end. Unfortunately (again imo) we are just too selfish to do that today...

You hit the nail on the head. Unfortunately, any society centered entirely in the self and not in the family as a single, indivisible family unit loses stability. While the poem I'm inserting below refers to love of one's homeland, it can be readily shown to apply to any kind of loyalty.

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Breathes There The Man
By Sir Walter Scott

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?

If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.