A thread about love.

[Ravenloft]

"I knew this lady once, she grew up a simple farm girl, sure, she had her problems, a couple of kids with her first love, and you know, love isn't always forever, though, I'd bloody well like it to be, but then, many years later, with her first love gone sour, and her children up into that awkward age where they are their own people, but still, not yet ready to be on their own, she found another love, I believe, her best, she was happy, so very happy, but as this cruel world often has it, most happiness is cut short, and her love strayed into the arms of death, his impending death was not a secret, in fact, they both knew before they wed that he was on much borrowed time, and in the end, in his pain, she, with the greatest of love let him go where she could not in a single whisper... She was lonely then, as any of us would be, without love, but in time, she found new love. Still, she never has forgotten the one love, and in addition to her love, the children she had, they learned through the example of their mother's love, what it truly was, in their hearts..."

 

[punkrockpoet]

touching story, ravenloft...

 

[Laurel]

Ravenloft, do you believe in one true love, or do you think a person can have multiple true loves in a lifetime?

 

[Ravenloft]

True too.

Thanks Poet.

 

[Ravenloft]

Ravenloft, do you believe in one true love, or do you think a person can have multiple true loves in a lifetime?

Life's a long time, these days, Laurel-babe, I think it can happen.

But... Can you tell me what true love really is?

I don't think I've known it for myself yet. Saw it, but not known it...

 

[penguindance]

 

[Laurel]

It's like a really really deep friendship, only with...something else. Hard to explain.

 

[SleepingWarrior]

I certainly hope there is more than one true love per lifetime. If there isn't I am doomed to a loveless life because the one I love won't have me anymore.

 

[Ravenloft]

Hard to explain.

Surest sign that its true love, folks!

 

[cybergirly]

If we are very very lucky there is only one "true" love to help guide us through life. I do believe however that many true loves are possible, they are gifts to help guide us through whatever path we may be on at that time in our lives.

 

[Laurel]

It's not always easy, and it's not always perfect, but it IS always real. I've only experienced it once in my life, and I'm still with him. Hopefully forever.

 

[glamorilla]

It's like a really really deep friendship, only with...something else. Hard to explain.

Only once.

 

[Laurel]

Only once.

Even once is lucky.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Only once my dear. Ace of base

 

[Moi]

I believe in one true love.
It's even better if she has a sister, though...

 

[marksgirl]

I've had other loves in my life but when my one true love came into my life I knew it and he's still here after almost 17 years. I'm very lucky indeed.

 

[Guest]

 

[Ebonyfire]

I might be wrong but I doubt it

I certainly hope there is more than one true love per lifetime. If there isn't I am doomed to a loveless life because the one I love won't have me anymore.

I believe there is more than one. It happened to me, however the road was long and winding ( a fact), with lots of false turns and twists.

My fiancee was killed in Vietnam in 1968. I was three months shy of 18 when he died, he was 21. He was the first love of my life.

I never married, but I did have one daughter at the age of 29. She is 22 now. I have finally met the second love of my life. I am 52 years old.

Go figure. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.

Ebonyfire

 

[intrigued]

This is so touching, and again, I am compelled to respond. (That first post is awesome, and so signifies the beauty of life.)

My ex recently wrote me the most beautiful letter and shared with me something that makes so much sense. In looking back over all of my past loves, I think this. There is one love that is like no other love, the one in which 10 years later, you are still quivering, needing them simply to be in the same room with you, needing to tell them something or it just hasn't "been told" otherwise, you cannot imagine life without them, they are your joy. They fill you so completely that it simply never dies. That person you will always love, and feel so good inside because of them. Theres just something there that no one else can touch.
Yet, others can touch you, just differently. You can love again, and deeply, just differently.
What he shared with me is this....people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or forever. People who come in for a reason are there to move us through something we are going through at the time. They help us, guide us, and are a friend to us. Eventually though, they drift away, either through disagreement, or moving on...something. Generally, it is right after the reason they came into your life is resolved.
There are those who come into our lives for a season. Is this love? No, probably not, though we love them anyway. They are there again to help us, but to help us grow and learn about ourselves. They help us prepare for that person we are will love. We learn from them the many things needed to maintain a relationship and keep them flourishing. These people also drift away in time. Though we may stay close,the learning and growth we gained with them in our lives comes to a close. Yet, we stay in touch because and they are a part of our memory, and emotional fabric. We are thankful every day that we met them.
Finally, someone comes into your life forever. Someone you love, someone you can't imagine living without. Someone, that if they were to leave, you would have a hole that couldn't be filled. They are the person you do everything with. They are either a companion to live out your life with, a life long friend, or a spouse with whom you would do anything. When they leave your life, a part of you is lost forever.

I have found it all to be so true.

 

[Ravenloft]

Thank you Intrigue, I very much apreciate your compliment, and my lord, what you shared with us, that was brilliant.

Someone should put it on a shirt or something!

 

[bluntforcemama]

Love is the curse that makes us flutter. It is the unspoken words that have no need to be vocalized. It's the ability to look at your other half and know that they're sad, sick, or gloomy by only the slightest suggestion of it. Love is feeling completely free to tell them anything, to share deep secrets that you trust to no one else. It's about being able to pee in the toilet while your other half takes a shower. It's beyond sex and trivial flirting games. It's not a missing beat in your heart, it's not love and rockets. It's the love of your life.

 

[foxxxyred]

People who come in for a reason are there to move us through something we are going through at the time. They help us, guide us, and are a friend to us. Eventually though, they drift away, either through disagreement, or moving on...something. Generally, it is right after the reason they came into your life is resolved. [/I]

I have found it all to be so true.

Thankyou for sharing this. This helped me a little in accepting someone i love dearly may not be a part of my life anymore.
I love him and part of me always will. For what he did and most importantly for who he is. I'm fortunate to have known him for the time i did. May he be happy wherever he is.