Real love? .
Throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and undefinable. It's the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, allot of it contradictory.
What we all want most is Real Love "unconditional love "where people love us even when we make mistakes and when we're not doing what they want. When we can't get that "which is almost all the time "we settle for whatever makes us feel good temporarily: sex, money, entertainment, and the temporary approval of other people. Without Real Love, all those forms of Imitation Love seem like they make us happy, but the feeling never lasts. .
Having little or no experience with Real Love, you are satisfied in the beginning with the physical beauty, conditional approval, sex, and whatever else you are getting from your "one and only- And they are satisfied with the Imitation Love you are giving them. But the effect of Imitation Love always wears off, and when that happened, you and your lover become dissatisfied. They beginn to complain that you aren't making them as "happy- as you once did. They don't realize "nor do you "that your relationship is based on the exchange of Imitation Love instead of on Real Love. Such a relationship can never be genuinely happy. .
We've been given the impression that to define love is near to impossible. Maybe there's a fear that if we define it, it would somehow be less powerful.less impactful.less exhilarating. Maybe we like the mystery of it. But is it really that complicated? Perhaps the complications surrounding love come from all "stuff- we add on to this powerful emotion. Lets drop all the baggage surrounding relationships and define what it is we are experiencing in the moment of love. One thing that's for sure, is that theres a lot of disagreement surrounding the topic og love.
