Love?

[bookish]

I don’t think this is appropriate for this section of CA, but I couldn’t think of where else to put it. If it’s in the wrong spot, or doesn’t really apply to any place, feel free to delete/move it, mods.

I wanted to ask, maybe from someone who has been there, is love real? The kind of love between men and women (eros, I believe?). The kind that’s been written about in poems and famous love stories. Does it really happen?

I believe in the love of God, and love between family members. But I’ve never seen this kind of love before, only in books and movies. So I wondered–is it real and all it’s cracked up to be?

This was very random. But I wanted to know and I’ve been thinking about it for so long.

 

[ChristIsTheWay]

Yes, it does exist. And yes, I’ve been there. Is it all it’s cracked up to be? That depends on what you mean. People say a lot of things about love and what it should and shouldn’t be. Love is a great thing but it is also a lot of hard work. There is no simple “happily ever after.” And it is more than a feeling. It is also action. It is commitment, it is loyalty, and it is fidelity. If one isn’t ready for that, then they are not ready for love. But yes, it is real.

 

[drafdog]

The problem is that love is real and all the rest of this business with matter and substance and senses is the part that isn’t real. If we believe that God is love as St. John tells us, then that must be the highest form of reality. Everything else is less than that reality. It puts our entire experience of the world upside down. However it clarifies Shakespeare’s “all the world’s a stage” soliloquy. It tells us to what audience we must play.
The relationships we have with one another, the love that we have shown, are all that we take with us before God. I’d say that made love pretty real; wouldn’t you?

Matthew

 

[mom4truth]

Good explanation, drafdog. I like that!!

 

[BlaineTog]

I wanted to ask, maybe from someone who has been there, is love real? The kind of love between men and women (eros, I believe?). The kind that’s been written about in poems and famous love stories. Does it really happen?

Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s completelly and utterly worth it. But it’s also very hard, a constant, complex give-and-take. And it can hurt more than anything most people will every feel, but it can also be one of the best things in the world.

 

[Jacob21]

Yess, love is real. Its real, amazing, warm, comforting. It can make you laugh, smile, and be truely happy. Yet it also can hurt, and make you worry. Like the others said, its give and take. Its not always going to be “happily ever after.” There will always be things that will test your love, per say. It can hurt like BlaineTog said, but it is all worth it! It is definitely worth it! Remember " Now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." 1 Cor. 13:13. God Bless.
Jacob

 

[fhansen]

Yes, that kind of love is real-it’s not just romantic fiction. I didn’t think it was real until I experienced it. But we can’t manufacture it-although people try, I think-and maybe the main part we play is just to be so open and vulnerable that we’ll risk loving the other despite the possible consequences, including the loss of the other.

 

[olipoli]

Sure it does, if you believe in it.

 

[mom4truth]

Love is real. But, it takes a daily commitment to stay with your partner - no matter what! Love is a decision - not just a feeling. So when the “loving feeling” isn’t there (and sometimes it isn’t) that’s when you make the “choice” to love anyway. God bless!

 

[Minnie31]

I wanted to ask, maybe from someone who has been there, is love real? The kind of love between men and women (eros, I believe?). The kind that’s been written about in poems and famous love stories. Does it really happen?

It’s real. I would describe it as a combination of things: sexual, romantic, caring, sacrificing, passionate, etc. It’s a wonderful thing to experience.