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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 1:21 am
I'll never love anyone the amount (how's that measured?) I love my family. I have an especially scary amount of love for my daughter. I can't seem to motivate myself to attempt to cram another person in my life who I know I won't love nearly as much. I tried with my daughter's mother, and that about took it out of me.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 1:38 am
(November 14, 2014 at 1:00 am)Deidre32 Wrote: Some people think they are 'in love,' but it's little more than deep infatuation. I've been in love, and my last boyfriend and I felt like it was something out of a movie. But, when faced with a conflict...we broke up. And the conflict was nothing that we couldn't surpass, so ...is that love? I've always thought love sees one through all things.
I'm a bit wary of true love, for it requires a lot of trust ... and when you've been hurt a few times, it's hard to give your heart away to the next person, who may be doing everything right.
Love is the victory of optimism over realism.
And it takes work to make it work. No such thing as magic, right?
My gal whom I referred to in my recent breakup thread, her and I are working at it now, and we will hopefully make it last, because of that determination to go back again to try and work through the issue, to find common ground, to recognize that we each have to compromise.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 2:34 am
What is love?
Don't hurt me....
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 2:42 am
(November 14, 2014 at 2:34 am)Zen Badger Wrote: What is love?
Don't hurt me....
No more
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 2:55 am
I've been married 44 years.
Does that count?
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 2:59 am
(November 14, 2014 at 2:55 am)Minimalist Wrote: I've been married 44 years.
Does that count? That alone not, could also be laziness 
But srsly, I don't know what true love is supposed to mean.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 8:19 am
(November 14, 2014 at 2:59 am)Alex K Wrote: (November 14, 2014 at 2:55 am)Minimalist Wrote: I've been married 44 years.
Does that count? That alone not, could also be laziness
But srsly, I don't know what true love is supposed to mean.
Makes me wonder of there is fake love? And how do I know the difference? Now here is a radical idea, what if there is no true love, just love and how we respond to the feeling and our partners.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 9:03 am
(November 14, 2014 at 1:38 am)Parkers Tan Wrote: (November 14, 2014 at 1:00 am)Deidre32 Wrote: Some people think they are 'in love,' but it's little more than deep infatuation. I've been in love, and my last boyfriend and I felt like it was something out of a movie. But, when faced with a conflict...we broke up. And the conflict was nothing that we couldn't surpass, so ...is that love? I've always thought love sees one through all things.
I'm a bit wary of true love, for it requires a lot of trust ... and when you've been hurt a few times, it's hard to give your heart away to the next person, who may be doing everything right.
Love is the victory of optimism over realism.
I'd like to think this, but sometimes my optimism ignored the bad sides of reality in relationships, and I let my 'love' for someone keep me in bad places/abusive relationships. But, overall, yes...I hear you.
Quote:And it takes work to make it work. No such thing as magic, right?
My gal whom I referred to in my recent breakup thread, her and I are working at it now, and we will hopefully make it last, because of that determination to go back again to try and work through the issue, to find common ground, to recognize that we each have to compromise.
I'm so happy for you both! I will live vicariously through you for now.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 10:39 am
I'll change my mind about the definition tomorrow, but this morning true love is what you have if you still love someone deeply after the insane infatuation, I obsess about you every moment period is over.
And yeah, I've been there a few times. My husbands a pretty special guy and I love him. 20 years of marriage and counting.
I'm not sure how to define other types of love. I'm 1000 miles from home looking after my father for a couple weeks because I love him. But I don't always like him very much. 
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: True Love - Did you ?
November 14, 2014 at 10:47 am
(November 14, 2014 at 9:03 am)Deidre32 Wrote: I'm so happy for you both! I will live vicariously through you for now.
Nonono ... live within yourself and find someone who loves you for being you ... and being willing to take that risk.
Living vicariously is not living, any more than reading a book is experiencing.
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