(November 22, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Are are you still open to feeling and demonstrating romantic love, in spite of your inclinations?
Of course. Acknowledging the reason an emotion exists doesn't negate the emotion. Although I admit I was rational about choosing my spouse, preferring friendship and common interests to romance. Being unrealistic will just increase the risk of divorce later. Plenty of room for love with someone you already trust.
Love is a combination of emotion and hormones resulting in a strong positive feeling for someone, sometimes resulting in emotional beer-goggles leaving you almost blind to that person’s flaws. If you want to be with someone based purely on love or lust that’s fine. But if you want a long-term relationship find a really good friend (Who you wouldn’t mind sleeping with); someone you get along with even in the boring, annoying times, because there are going to be no end of them and if you can be content in those moments you’re set for life.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ~ George Bernard Shaw
