Love......

[strollingbones]

go to youtube and enter 'in spite of ourselves' john prine

 

[Spinster]

"Love is never having to say you're sorry", so the old saying goes, but caring, comfort, courtesy, emotional support, understanding, and finesse are essential factors in preventing damage and go a long way in sustaining love. Every hit your relationship weathers does damage. Be vigilant and be on constant damage patrol. Nurture your love for one another, don't leave it to languish. Cause it to be a healthy specimen, cultivate it's growth and maturity, so weeds don't take over and choke out the life. It takes ongoing effort, but what you ultimately reap is extremely satisfying--a rich and abiding love.

 

[Spinster]

go to youtube and enter 'in spite of ourselves' john prine

Very cool YouTube! Thanks again.

 

[Bonzi]

People erroneously think men and women are so different. The constant battle of the sexes, in my opinion, is incredibly monotonous. Men and women are not all that different. Yes, they have different genitalia, no question, but emotionally they are quite similar. They both really want the same things like love, caring, acceptance, respect, etc. I've known men and women who feel these emotions equally as intensely, they may demonstrate them differently, but for the most part they're the same. Once a person can truly get hold of the precept, it is very freeing, because finally they can begin to see the two sexes as a union in a positive rather than a negative light which stops the war and division. We are held hostage by our background, what we're been taught and heard throughout our lives. Shake all the crap away, see with new eyes, make sound decisions in our partnering, be open to growing, and give it a chance. I'm certain you'll be amazed and consequently find success.

I think the key is finding someone who's idea of love matches yours

 

[Spinster]

People erroneously think men and women are so different. The constant battle of the sexes, in my opinion, is incredibly monotonous. Men and women are not all that different. Yes, they have different genitalia, no question, but emotionally they are quite similar. They both really want the same things like love, caring, acceptance, respect, etc. I've known men and women who feel these emotions equally as intensely, they may demonstrate them differently, but for the most part they're the same. Once a person can truly get hold of the precept, it is very freeing, because finally they can begin to see the two sexes as a union in a positive rather than a negative light which stops the war and division. We are held hostage by our background, what we're been taught and heard throughout our lives. Shake all the crap away, see with new eyes, make sound decisions in our partnering, be open to growing, and give it a chance. I'm certain you'll be amazed and consequently find success.

I think the key is finding someone who's idea of love matches yours

That's where making sound decisions in our partnering comes into play as I noted above. People get together for all the wrong reasons such as convenience, infatuation, addiction, company, and others which don't constitute love. True love is a different thing altogether, is extremely rare to find, but once you do there's nothing like experiencing the total compatibility that results. Once that happens, it's no longer about "you", but about the other person, their happiness, their safety, their contentment. There's no longer any "you" and "me", just about "us" and "we".

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

I wonder though, what causes someone to love some and not others....
You have children, you love them, because you raise them, you are close to them and know them well plus there it the "natural" love - but you can also know people for a long time you don't love - I just wonder why you would love some and not others.

Personality?
Something intangible?
Similarities?

There are different facets of love.

Love is believing in another and others.