What's with love these days? ( Archived) (51)

langleygirl: I sometimes wonder if I was born in the wrong era or maybe I just don't understand love and relationships? When I say this I'm thinking about relationships of old - the kind that last 50-75 years. How were these young couples different than us today? Were and are their perceptions of a relationship different? Were they happy in their younger years and are they still happy? What's the difference that makes their relationships stand the test of time?

Many a couple I've come across were only acquainted a brief period of time before marriage ...... some a few short weeks ......... and here today many of us are well into middle age and still single .... with a few relationships under our belts. Are we too picky or so messed up that we can't sustain a relationship? Do we place too much emphasive on "feelings" instead of the commitment?

When I think of my relationship with my child - been a lot of moments of commitment rather than "happy love feelings".

Anyways - just seems to me that love was simpler then ........ sometimes I wish we could reverse time.

langleygirl: What's with love these days?

langleygirl: I sometimes wonder if I was born in the wrong era or maybe I just don't understand love and relationships? When I say this I'm thinking about relationships of old - the kind that last 50-75 years. How were these young couples different than us today? Were and are their perceptions of a relationship different? Were they happy in their younger years and are they still happy? What's the difference that makes their relationships stand the test of time?

Many a couple I've come across were only acquainted a brief period of time before marriage ...... some a few short weeks ......... and here today many of us are well into middle age and still single .... with a few relationships under our belts. Are we too picky or so messed up that we can't sustain a relationship? Do we place too much emphasive on "feelings" instead of the commitment?

When I think of my relationship with my child - been a lot of moments of commitment rather than "happy love feelings".

Anyways - just seems to me that love was simpler then ........ sometimes I wish we could reverse time.

Daniel4021: There were much different values back then, in todays society people don't have the same values as the older genration, not all people, but the majority of todays people aren't interested in having a meaningful and loving relationship anymore it seems.. and those of us that want to pursue that have to weed through all the ones that don't want it, and hope we are not old and gray by the time we find it, if we ever do..

Then we have to deal with those that have been hurt by a previous boyfriend/girlfriend, and prove we are not like the person before we came along, with me, I don't hang out to long if a lady shows little or no interest in me.. I figure if that's the case, i'm just wasting my time.. and theirs... How many people are on this site? how many people do we see really hook up? How many start to show an interest, it last for about a week or two, maybe a month, and one or the other just begins to ignor you... hmmm, there always seems to be a problem somewhere.. And how many people get together and then start getting emails telling them to watch out for the one they are seeing...

Hey look if you have been hurt.. i'm sorry it happened to you.. all of us have at the age we are, but you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try again... just my 2 cents for what it's worth..

LiveWyre: everything in the world is out of sinc...people have lost moral and value for one another...people are turning cold and more out for themselves it seems..

fcryan1: ahhh hun you remember me!!!!1 I'm chuffed...
yes I,m back...
where is every one else????
hope there all doing well