Does True Love Exist?

[MSH2]

Yeah, I knew a love so strong so deep that it joined us in places science cant pin down. I could walk into a crowded nightclub and know, in a thousand people, exactly where she was. When she was sad, I cried, when she smiled, I laughed, when she had PMT, I was one crabby bastard. Sadly she was taken from me, took me many years to find myself again.

I firmly believe true love exists, and that out there, somewhere in the world is your soul mate. Someone who truly completes you.

What hope I have now is that sometimes, just sometimes you get a second chance

 

[LegsApart]

Soulmate... ?? True Love ??
I do believe it exists.. Its just mine is taking a very long time to find me. Or maybe he got lost somewhere.........
But I am complete even without him.

 

[EnglishRoseFox]

Of course. What a sad and cynical life we would lead if we didn't believe that true love does exist. I believe it comes in different forms and we may not all find it in the conventional sense...but it exists...in our children, in our friends, in the people we would die for. This is true love.

And on top of it if you are lucky enough to find a mate that you feel that way about and that feels that way about you too...that is the best kind of true love there is.

Maybe one day huh? But I'm in no hurry.....what is meant for you will not pass you by

 

[sirgary]

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[MystieRains]

Honestly? No. Not really. Out of 6,700,000,000 on Earth, with large amounts really young and a good deal old, all living in several countries, you happen to meet the one who "completes you" and they love you back and yadda yadda; let’s just say the chances are very very low. I think love is a sort of bond people create semi-voluntarily. People choose to fall in love, to settle down. That’s why arranged marriages people can learn to love, or you can marry several people. It’s a man made emotion.

 

[sirgary]

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[LustfulOne50]

...I tend to agree with you...

Scientifically, the same place in the brain that houses love, houses the pleasure center generally associated with drug addicts and thier drug use ...

I note connecting of the evils of drug and use to love, but the area is also the same for ice cream, sodas, steak, angels: ie: anything that would be concidered pleasureable. Love is unque a idea/symbol that much used wrong. Why, we don't like a song we love it or a dress, sandwich, CD, you name it and when was the last time you went out on a blind date just tyou and it. Yes, the question, "does true love exit" The answer is yes it does. I have found that soulmate or true love is hard as finding to grains of sand beach that fit together perfectly...1st we do know they exit but the fun it can take a life time find or not.....happy hunting

 

[CelticFlame]

I am sure it does for a limited few.

Is it worth gambling heartbreak for?

I do not like the odds, so I think not.

 

[sirgary]

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[omahaman2]

YESit does!
YES! it is worth the chance of heartbreak

 

[alisonwunderlnd]

i absolutely believe true love exists

 

[kendra1980]

YESit does!
YES! it is worth the chance of heartbreak

ALWAYS....Oman...you always have the right photo and the perfect replies.

Hope you and your Jenny have a great day.

 

[janeyl]

If you keep your heart and mind open to the possibility of it

 

[sirgary]

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[cyikac1986]

...insightful and inspiring...and very true......

I knew a man who dearly loved a woman who had a history of being sort of a tramp. He hoped his love would change her and he truely believed she was faithful only to him...

...in the end she did cheat on him and he caught her and dumped her...

....if he never found a love as strong as that again and she proves to have been his lifelong soulmate, did true love truely exist for him?....

...<pondering>....

This from a man who encouraged her to "find her way". I almost feel bad.

 

[LustfulOne50]

...insightful and inspiring...and very true......

I knew a man who dearly loved a woman who had a history of being sort of a tramp. He hoped his love would change her and he truely believed she was faithful only to him...

...in the end she did cheat on him and he caught her and dumped her...

....if he never found a love as strong as that again and she proves to have been his lifelong soulmate, did true love truely exist for him?....

...<pondering>....

It is said a man who knowningly picks up a poisonious snake to help it across the lake when asked by the snake kindly and gets bitten and dies knew it was a snake from the begin..a tear should not be shed.

 

[sirgary]

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[southerntierguy]

...insightful and inspiring...and very true......

I knew a man who dearly loved a woman who had a history of being sort of a tramp. He hoped his love would change her and he truely believed she was faithful only to him...

...in the end she did cheat on him and he caught her and dumped her...

....if he never found a love as strong as that again and she proves to have been his lifelong soulmate, did true love truely exist for him?....

...<pondering>....

This is interesting, but I think it's a fallacy to think that there is one and only one person we can be truly happy with. I think, for people who know how to love (and that isn't everyone), the possibility arises from time to time to find a person we can truly connect with.

As for me, I know of a story of a rather shallow married man who had a lover that he judged ... and his love wasn't for the woman herself, but for the picture he had in his mind of the woman who would make him happy, and who he could change into that image, and player that he was, he never knew the difference. He thought it better to want to change someone into the person he wanted than to love either the woman he had or the one he wanted to have.

Eventually the affair ended ... and the hurting and potential hurtfulness boiled over ... had true love ever existed? More importantly, can it exist in the future for either one of them? I think that depends on the character of the hearts of the people involved ... but it COULD happen, that I am sure of.

 

[sirgary]

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[janeyl]

This is interesting, but I think it's a fallacy to think that there is one and only one person we can be truly happy with. I think, for people who know how to love (and that isn't everyone), the possibility arises from time to time to find a person we can truly connect with.

As for me, I know of a story of a rather shallow married man who had a lover that he judged ... and his love wasn't for the woman herself, but for the picture he had in his mind of the woman who would make him happy, and who he could change into that image, and player that he was, he never knew the difference. He thought it better to want to change someone into the person he wanted than to love either the woman he had or the one he wanted to have.
Eventually the affair ended ... and the hurting and potential hurtfulness boiled over ... had true love ever existed? More importantly, can it exist in the future for either one of them? I think that depends on the character of the hearts of the people involved ... but it COULD happen, that I am sure of.

Yes yes-so very true and so very insightful-I made that mistake before but now I have learned-and whether that is through maturity or through being entirely secure in the relationship I have currently-to realise that I love the man I have not some idealistic image of who he should be and that he loves me truly for who I am too

The situation isn't ideal but I know totally where I stand and that means more to me than any platitudes or pretences

Jane

 

[southerntierguy]

Yes yes-so very true and so very insightful-I made that mistake before but now I have learned-and whether that is through maturity or through being entirely secure in the relationship I have currently-to realise that I love the man I have not some idealistic image of who he should be and that he loves me truly for who I am too

The situation isn't ideal but I know totally where I stand and that means more to me than any platitudes or pretences

Jane

Definitely. Everyone has warts ... everyone is human. If you don't appreciate that in someone else, maybe it is not the right person.

I don't expect to find the perfect person. I'd like to find someone who is mature about handling our differences, and who, I adore despite hers. But it's also important to genuinely feel your heart go flip-flop for that person, despite the flaws ... it's no good to put a mask on the other person to make them appealling.

I think being loved despite your flaws is a very humbling thing.

 

[janeyl]

Definitely. Everyone has warts ... everyone is human. If you don't appreciate that in someone else, maybe it is not the right person.

I don't expect to find the perfect person. I'd like to find someone who is mature about handling our differences, and who, I adore despite hers. But it's also important to genuinely feel your heart go flip-flop for that person, despite the flaws ... it's no good to put a mask on the other person to make them appealling.

I think being loved despite your flaws is a very humbling thing.

And being loved despite my flaws has made them so much smaller in my own eyes where before they seemed overwhelming

Jane

 

[sirgary]

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[Miss Dizzy]

I have no idea.

I'll tell you if I find out.

 

[sirgary]

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