Another person with a clue comes to JSH

I agree. Through several relationships - and marriages - I truly thought I was in love ..and not until I truly fell in love did I understand that I had never been in love before. The object of my affection and I can never be together. I understand this. I love him still, and wish him well. I think I could still love someone else, but I wonder.

so, everyone will report his posts and get him banned.. Right?

Oh, that happens here too?

Only to the smart people.

Love is perceived in each person's own image...and you have yours....Bless your heart

Say what you will... I used to believe that love took work.

I now know differently... drastically different as a matter of fact...

If it seems too much like work... it is.

If it is right, it will never seem otherwise.

But I am an idealist...

Love doesn't take work. Relationships take work.

I like this guy.

Good to see my thread kicked off while I was at work. Please continue expressing your opinion's on the matter.

I bumped it for ya

I knew I fell for you for a reason.

my love for you is true and unconditional.

Found this thing finally.

Anyway, to further break down my thoughts on love a tad more if I will (which I will cause this is my thread). This is somewhat of a conclusion if you will, an end to my thought of what is and isn't love and what can or cannot be love. Here it goes: First of all in order for love to exist both partners must accept the other regardless of faults and past, and this is something that shouldn't for any reason whatsoever be brought up. In one setting you can't truly have that "regardless" mindset mainly because in this day and age you have the outside opinion of family/friends/others. However once upon a rare occasion this can occur without an outside resistance or negative opinion, however the chances of this actually happening with any partner is somewhere around 15% (out of 10, 2 partners exist without another person close to you having a negative opinion) the reason this comes to 15% and not 20% is because you have to take into account that this is a near impossibility and the fact of that would divide one into a half. Theoretically love is a standard of living which one can grow into, logically love is a substandard of living that someone sets above their actual potential and/or ability. Mathmatically speaking for me I have a 3 in a million chance of finding my one true love and this is based off of my own set of requirements (high school educated and in college, around my age range [20-28], sence of self or confidence) which with the given population range of the countries I see myself going to and/or living in (USA, Canada, Ireland) brings my population figure to a little over 18,000 women. Which in hindsight is not a bad number but taking the fact that the US population alone is currently around 303,842,774 this can really kill the buzz.

Thank you again for debating this and discussing this in a civil manner.

Fear:
This just in, Love is dead, they found it in a ditch outside my house early this morning....the funeral will be uhm, the rest of my life.

Lily

Well, hey we always have infactuation and lust...right?