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What is love?

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What is love?
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RE: What is love?
January 12, 2014 at 3:43 pm
(January 12, 2014 at 3:36 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
Quote:Co-dependency is the situation that exists when another person's happiness is essential to your own.

No, because co-dependency involves a measure of control exerted by one of the parties involved. Love, properly speaking, does not.

Boru

My happiness is unaffected by the status of that of my spouse, and yet I "love" her dearly. I can empathize with her if she is suffering, but my "happiness" is independent of hers, and is not co-dependent upon hers.
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What is love?

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What is love? - by LalalaTabby - January 12, 2014 at 2:08 pm
RE: What is love? - by ShaMan - January 12, 2014 at 2:11 pm
RE: What is love? - by Sejanus - January 12, 2014 at 6:16 pm
RE: What is love? - by ShaMan - January 12, 2014 at 6:54 pm
RE: What is love? - by Sejanus - January 12, 2014 at 6:55 pm
RE: What is love? - by ShaMan - January 12, 2014 at 7:03 pm
RE: What is love? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 12, 2014 at 3:22 pm
RE: What is love? - by ShaMan - January 12, 2014 at 3:26 pm
RE: What is love? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 12, 2014 at 3:36 pm
RE: What is love? - by ShaMan - January 12, 2014 at 3:43 pm
RE: What is love? - by c172 - January 12, 2014 at 3:36 pm
RE: What is love? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 12, 2014 at 4:11 pm
RE: What is love? - by Cato - January 12, 2014 at 5:46 pm
RE: What is love? - by Kayenneh - January 12, 2014 at 5:52 pm
RE: What is love? - by Jackalope - January 12, 2014 at 6:43 pm
RE: What is love? - by bennyboy - January 12, 2014 at 7:53 pm
RE: What is love? - by Rev. Rye - January 12, 2014 at 8:32 pm
RE: What is love? - by Fidel_Castronaut - January 13, 2014 at 11:58 am
RE: What is love? - by Whateverist - January 12, 2014 at 8:46 pm
RE: What is love? - by faithinwhat - January 12, 2014 at 8:49 pm
RE: What is love? - by ElleBelle - January 12, 2014 at 8:51 pm
RE: What is love? - by Whateverist - January 13, 2014 at 5:20 pm
RE: What is love? - by KichigaiNeko - January 12, 2014 at 8:53 pm
RE: What is love? - by Fruity - January 12, 2014 at 10:53 pm
RE: What is love? - by Rinnard - January 13, 2014 at 5:46 am
RE: What is love? - by Zen Badger - January 13, 2014 at 5:50 am
RE: What is love? - by BrokenQuill92 - January 13, 2014 at 5:30 pm
RE: What is love? - by LalalaTabby - January 16, 2014 at 11:31 pm
RE: What is love? - by Angrboda - January 17, 2014 at 10:47 pm
RE: What is love? - by LalalaTabby - January 19, 2014 at 4:33 am



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