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All of Life is a risk, including love ...
Most my biggest accomplishments and best memories involve HUGE risks ...  ... Ya play until it pays!
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Everything's a gamble, you never know til you try.
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Does anyone agree with this? Has anyone else lost hope in what real love is all about? I sure have... Same here. It's taken dozens of truly horrendous entanglements for me to fully understand that there just isn't anybody out there who won't try to change me into a domesticated farm animal. Sure, it's nice to think about finding "the right one." It's also nice to think about winning the lottery or finding a live stegosaurus in the basement. But that doesn't mean any of those things have any realistic chance of happening.... |
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yes...why would you deny yourself the chance to experience life??? because your afraid of getting hurt?? its just life and we survive...or for all that should i judge everyone on the crap someone else pulled on me??? thats not very smart if you ask me...you live ,you learn ,you grow,
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Wow good words. I do agree with that and just needed a reminder that I can't expect all men to be jerks and play with my heart...thank you
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I risked all for "true love."
Had it to do over, I would in a heart beat. |
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Every step of the way ....
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Real love is worth the risk. I never thought I'd find it again, I was ready to give up, but then I found Rob, and we love each other so much, I wouldn't trade that for anything!!  
Erica and I feel and share a common bond. One so strong, it cannot be broken, by anything or anyone. We've shared alot of similar experiences, and we've had struggles and traumas in our lives before. We left them all behind us, and we never would have found each other, unless we took that "risk." She's a true blessing to me, and I feel love and joy like I've never felt before. And obviously you and I can tell she feels the same way. So jump in, roll the dice, play the cards, you might end up winning big time, like I did with her.
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It is like anything else in life if you don't risk it you will never know if it was worth it!!!!
 
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Sometimes it seems like no matter how great the love really was, the pain of the loss is always ten times worse than the good ever was. That's how I've felt for a long time now and still trying to get over that fear. I don't know if I can do it just yet. But I owed it to myself to at least try again. :)
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It is defenitely worth the risk there are no gaurantees in life and that includes everything you learn and grow and become a stronger person more power to love
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Edited by
darkowl1
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Wed 04/14/10 03:49 PM
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you are surrounded by love every second, whether you like it or not... and....by rage as well and whether one chooses to acknowledge it and choose which is more powerful to them, is up to them.
it's your inner self that has this battle, and once you come to grips with it, you can be whole with love for someone else, but until then, it will be un-even and tormentuous, and hard on your partner, for your self doubt. |
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I believe truly loving someone is worth the risk. There is much wisdom in this thread and Mccleaver a very thought provoking post. You are new here but have lovely insight even if a little jaded. But aren't we all. Thanks for the reminder that love and living are worth the risk of pain and loss.
C |
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Wow good words. I do agree with that and just needed a reminder that I can't expect all men to be jerks and play with my heart...thank you
Time for Goof rant, cause a statement like this just irks me. I mean.......REALLY? You got played by a dude. And so you felt that all men were jerk. That's original. I have been done wrong by a woman. And, I know that, in my past, I had a bad break up with an ex that I wish I had done differently. But I don't put the blame on anyone. Surely not on women (cause you guy know Goof loves the women...hehe). Anyways, I am not attacking you. Just the statement, and the sentiment in general. I truly don't get why people do this when they get burned. It's called life, and not all experiences are good. You have to experience life, or live in a freaking shoe or something. I know getting burned hurts. Hell, I think we all can attest to that. But if we allowed feelings like this to run us, then there would be no hope at all. And that, in Goof's opinion, sucks balls. Ok. I am done. Goof out! |
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Wow good words. I do agree with that and just needed a reminder that I can't expect all men to be jerks and play with my heart...thank you
Time for Goof rant, cause a statement like this just irks me. I mean.......REALLY? You got played by a dude. And so you felt that all men were jerk. That's original. I have been done wrong by a woman. And, I know that, in my past, I had a bad break up with an ex that I wish I had done differently. But I don't put the blame on anyone. Surely not on women (cause you guy know Goof loves the women...hehe). Anyways, I am not attacking you. Just the statement, and the sentiment in general. I truly don't get why people do this when they get burned. It's called life, and not all experiences are good. You have to experience life, or live in a freaking shoe or something. I know getting burned hurts. Hell, I think we all can attest to that. But if we allowed feelings like this to run us, then there would be no hope at all. And that, in Goof's opinion, sucks balls. Ok. I am done. Goof out! Goof, your way with words inspires me. And THAT does not suck balls. 
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Wow good words. I do agree with that and just needed a reminder that I can't expect all men to be jerks and play with my heart...thank you
Time for Goof rant, cause a statement like this just irks me. I mean.......REALLY? You got played by a dude. And so you felt that all men were jerk. That's original. I have been done wrong by a woman. And, I know that, in my past, I had a bad break up with an ex that I wish I had done differently. But I don't put the blame on anyone. Surely not on women (cause you guy know Goof loves the women...hehe). Anyways, I am not attacking you. Just the statement, and the sentiment in general. I truly don't get why people do this when they get burned. It's called life, and not all experiences are good. You have to experience life, or live in a freaking shoe or something. I know getting burned hurts. Hell, I think we all can attest to that. But if we allowed feelings like this to run us, then there would be no hope at all. And that, in Goof's opinion, sucks balls. Ok. I am done. Goof out! Goof, your way with words inspires me. And THAT does not suck balls.
I do what I can Chrissy.....right or wrong, Goof does it his way. 
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Does anyone agree with this? Has anyone else lost hope in what real love is all about? I sure have... If you mean _romantic love_? Yes, a long time ago. It's the ultimate Prisoner's Dilemma. I'm not saying some people can't achieve it, it's just that I don't like the odds and will only a play a dollar ticket until someone shows me the payout matrix for which they're _really_ playing. Here. An excerpt from "The Road Less Travelled" that explains it nicely: "To serve as effectively as it does to trap us into marriage, the experience of falling in love probably must have as one of its characteristics, the illusion that the experience will last forever. This illusion is fostered in our culture by the commonly held myth of romantic love, which has its origins in our favorite childhood fairy tales, wherein the prince and princess, once united, live happily forever after. The myth of romantic love tells us, in effect, that for every young man in the world there is a young woman who was 'meant for him,' and vice versa. Moreover, the myth implies that there is only one man meant for a woman and only one woman for a man and this has been predetermined 'in the stars.' When we meet the person for whom we are intended, recognition comes through the fact that we fall in love. We have met the person for whom all the heavens intended us, and since the match is perfect, we will then be able to satisfy all of each other's needs forever and ever, and therefore live happily forever after in perfect union and harmony. Should it come to pass, however, that we do not satisfy or meet all of each other's needs and friction arises and we fall out of love, then it is clear that a dreadful mistake was made, we misread the stars, we did not hook up with our one and only perfect match, what we thought was love was not real or 'true' love, and nothing can be done about the situation except to live unhappily ever after or get divorced. While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the species by its encouragement and seeming validation of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. -Kerry O. |
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for me i have a hard shell to crack... seems every time it gets a fracture i see signs and the fracture of the shell heals back up. ive just had bad luck and i think it will take someone awfully special to crack it... but definitely wont say i wouldn't try again. i tend to back off when i have vibes.. i don't want to be someones rebound or toy...i can live without that lol. id rather be single
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Wow good words. I do agree with that and just needed a reminder that I can't expect all men to be jerks and play with my heart...thank you
Time for Goof rant, cause a statement like this just irks me. I mean.......REALLY? You got played by a dude. And so you felt that all men were jerk. That's original. I have been done wrong by a woman. And, I know that, in my past, I had a bad break up with an ex that I wish I had done differently. But I don't put the blame on anyone. Surely not on women (cause you guy know Goof loves the women...hehe). Anyways, I am not attacking you. Just the statement, and the sentiment in general. I truly don't get why people do this when they get burned. It's called life, and not all experiences are good. You have to experience life, or live in a freaking shoe or something. I know getting burned hurts. Hell, I think we all can attest to that. But if we allowed feelings like this to run us, then there would be no hope at all. And that, in Goof's opinion, sucks balls. Ok. I am done. Goof out! Goof, your way with words inspires me. And THAT does not suck balls.
I do what I can Chrissy.....right or wrong, Goof does it his way.
Never change Goof, never change! You are cool just the way you are! 
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Edited by
silly
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Fri 04/16/10 04:54 PM
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Yes,when it turns out right. |
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