Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Romanticized "love"
Since we have been talking a lot lately about chivalry and the knight's relations with women, I thought I would put in my two cents about love and why I feel so many marriages are falling apart these days. From the earliest literature on, we see that the word "infatuation" is often replaced with "love". This is probably because most of these stories are written by men and lust is probably the biggest cloud over our reason that exists. If I wrote a sonnet about every attractive female I saw, I would never get anything else done! The problem is that this infatuation eventually runs dry and many people think this is their cue that they no longer "love" their woman and they need to go have an affair - I seriously think this is why the divorce rate is so high. True love and sacrifice comes into play when infatuation goes away. Love is standing by your woman simply because you are honoring the covenant of marriage you made to her and God. Our culture needs to get a grip!
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Very well said. It is interesting how so many people confuse lust with love, and then when it comes to true relationships, once the wonderful warm, fuzzy feelings go away, folks want to call it quits....and that's when it finally gets REAL!
ReplyDeleteWow! This is so enlightening!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely! Lust isn't forever; but true love is. "Love" is being able to open your eyes and seeing every flaw your partner has, and STILL be willing to love them and accept them.
Hmm... I feel as if I know the male species a bit better now. (:
This is so true! I feel that "love" today is so misconstrued. Where before it used to mean something, now it is just an empty word that really means lust or infatuation. It's sad how so many people are so often misled by the term love and how many people get their hearts broken by people who don't mean what they say. Love is forever and taking someone with their problems, and making their problems your own. Lust is just wanting that person for a short period of time for whatever reason and then dumping them when you no longer "love" them. Thank you for posting this; it really helped me know the male species better.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said Andrew, but at the same time I don't think there is any reason for love, at least for right now. Also, love is so hard to find nowadays and lust is a lot more easily found and a lot less complicated. You can be lustful with someone and be done with it and still be friends, but you cannot love someone and still be friends. I don't care what anyone says that cannot happen. Andrew again I like what you said and I hope I can find love one day but right now all my attempts have failed and being cut off from lust is a lot easier than fixing a broken heart.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Andrew to a certain extent but I think it also has to do with how little marriage is valed present day. We live our lives based on a clock...from the moment we go to sleep to the time it is time to go to bed. We get caught up in our routine and forget to sometimes appreciate that person that once aroused strange emotions in us. It is always easier to just call quits when certain things get in our way for success or when the lust is no longer there.
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