curly28Perth, Western Australia Australia5,450 posts
Damian_S: Sure love exists but there comes a time when you need to move it way down the priorities list
That is a rather sad outlook on what love means
I believe in love and it's nice to have loved than not at all Sometimes love hurts But I do believe one can love again there is someone for everyone , you cannot rush love it will find you when you least expect it
Jan 18, 2013 12:43 AM CST Do you sill believe in Love?
Damian_SNorthcliff / Mossel Bay, Gauteng South Africa19 Posts
Damian_SNorthcliff / Mossel Bay, Gauteng South Africa19 posts
curly28: That is a rather sad outlook on what love means I believe in love and it's nice to have loved than not at all Sometimes love hurts But I do believe one can love again there is someone for everyone , you cannot rush love it will find you when you least expect it
Love - this word is used so generically in Western societies. In history and civilizations past, there were more words to describe the many facets of we now call love.
Take Ancient Greek - Eros (everybody I think knows about this kind of love), Philia (Brotherly or family love), Agape (the choice to love someone that does not love us back in a more philanthropic way).
We love our cars, homes, toys, all sorts of things. This just gives some examples of the confusion in the meaning of the word love that can arise.
This also translates to relationships. We can love different people in different ways. We can love more than one person at one time. But it is the choice of faithfulness to one partner that defines what most on dating sites refer to as "love". This faithfulness to one and only one is a choice we make, not a feeling, emotion, or urge. It is a decision that two make.
So yes, love does exist, in many forms and in many ways. Many in other cultures who are married by betrothal and do not choose their partner for life fall in love with each other and stay married, even happily. It is choice that we make. The choice may be influenced by emotions, urges, feelings, but ultimately love is a choice that we make, just as the death of love and a relationship is also a choice that two people in a marriage make either together or alone.
Not love, just lust. Love of the parental nature is reserved for my children. Love with a partner is too much of an illusive, abstract, and costly senario and I am too selfish of a person to give that much of myself away both emotionally and financially .
Butterflyxxxxx: I dont know It does actualy exists or not ..I just hope that It exists .
It exists. But it may be difficult to find, like finding gold. You have to believe, put in a lot of effort, and have a bit of luck.
Sometimes you have to choose love, it won't choose you. By this I mean that sometimes love like a seed must be planted, watered, fertilized, and have the right conditions to grow.
So it is there. Love takes on many forms, each is love, but in a different way. We love our family (most of them), we love a beautiful sunny day, we love our dog, or pet, we love our friends..... Love actually exists.
The special love of a man and a woman can exist as well. But more often this one is the result of choice, commitment, compromise, and acceptance. It takes 2 people and both people must want it and invest in it with each other for it to live and keep on living.
I do believe in true love from the heart, and not the fake love you get from someone for a few months until they get what they wanted. We just have to be prepared and don't get hurt again.
Zimboo: I do believe in true love from the heart, and not the fake love you get from someone for a few months until they get what they wanted. We just have to be prepared and don't get hurt again.
You will have problems loving other till you Love yourself has been a thought of mine. Im almost ready
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