Love isn't perfect...

[lucky-E-leven]

...and yet what most of us strive for is love.

All the money and respect of a high-paying job doesn't come close. All the media attention and shiny brass statuettes don't cover it. What we want are imperfections and challenges that keep us honest as we traverse the quick-sand of feelings love tosses us in.

Am I right?

What has love taught you?

 

[Guest]

love taught me to love me first because...how can i truly love someone else unless i understand and accept me for who i am?
love taught me to be grateful...accepting...gracious...for the love that comes my way.

 

[Guest]

...and yet what most of us strive for is love.

All the money and respect of a high-paying job doesn't come close. All the media attention and shiny brass statuettes don't cover it. What we want are imperfections and challenges that keep us honest as we traverse the quick-sand of feelings love tosses us in.

Am I right?

What has love taught you?

Love is my support system.

Career, children, sex, play, hopes & dreams - love is at the bottom of it all.

 

[Harry Leg]

Some days I think love is perfect...it's just me that's not so much

 

[elsol]

...and yet what most of us strive for is love.

All the money and respect of a high-paying job doesn't come close. All the media attention and shiny brass statuettes don't cover it. What we want are imperfections and challenges that keep us honest as we traverse the quick-sand of feelings love tosses us in.

Am I right?

If i have a choice I'll take lots of the shiny gold statuettes please.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[Belegon]

Love has taught me to listen, but it has deafened me as well.

certainly not every choice I make is wise. Many of the things I have said or done because of love are extremely foolish. They have caused as much pain as joy, for both myself and others. Never has this been more true than in the last two years.

Love has taught me that no choice is easy but that the hardest ones are often the most worthwhile. Am I a better person now then I was two years ago, or twenty? Maybe not. But I am more interesting.

Love is my catalyst.

 

[impressive]

Loving ... and being loved ... has taught me that much of what people call love really isn't.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I don't save my love or keep it locked up for one special person I might never meet. I give it freely, to friends, family and lovers. If they don't treat it properly I don't worry because I always have more. It never runs out.

Because of love, I will never be bitter or alone. I've seen that fate, what happens to people who can't give their love. I won't let it happen to me.

For the ones I love, I'll do absolutely anything. I will always give my absolute best for love.

Love is the only thing that really matters in this world.

 

[hugo_sam]

I don't save my love or keep it locked up for one special person I might never meet. I give it freely, to friends, family and lovers. If they don't treat it properly I don't worry because I always have more. It never runs out.

Because of love, I will never be bitter or alone. I've seen that fate, what happens to people who can't give their love. I won't let it happen to me.

For the ones I love, I'll do absolutely anything. I will always give my absolute best for love.

Love is the only thing that really matters in this world.

Very well said sentiments Carson. Very moving and hope inspiring.

 

[TheEarl]

It's very strange to realise that there is one or more people who will do just about anything for you. People who aren't your family, people who don't have to love you because you're related, but people who have chosen to value your happiness almost above their own.

I am so grateful for the love of my friends.

The Earl

 

[Recidiva]

I did the drama.

I did the fame.

I did the attention.

Then I was done with that.

I decided that the thing you lose with the world's attention is your privacy and intimacy with the things you love, even yourself.

And when you love with your full attention to the things you care for, there's not so much time for the things that don't love you back, only idolize or fictionalize you.

 

[Aurora Black]

Love is everything, period.

 

[rgraham666]

Having thought about this a lot recently, and coming to the conclusion that I've never been in love, nor that anyone has ever been in love with me, I'll have to say, "Not much".

 

[carsonshepherd]

"Not much".

Having read some of your stories I beg to differ. Perhaps you're destined to teach the rest of us what it means.

 

[R. Richard]

What has love taught you?

When I take a lady into her bedroom, I always check the closets for intruders before I get started with the main event. The careful man lives to screw another day!

JMHO.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

What has love taught you?

nevermind

 

[Aurora Black]

There's no such thing as unconditional love. If you search for it, you're made to look and feel like a fool.

 

[English Lady]

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails.

1 corinthians 13: 4-8

Love has taught me the above and

I don't save my love or keep it locked up for one special person I might never meet. I give it freely, to friends, family and lovers. If they don't treat it properly I don't worry because I always have more. It never runs out.

Because of love, I will never be bitter or alone. I've seen that fate, what happens to people who can't give their love. I won't let it happen to me.

For the ones I love, I'll do absolutely anything. I will always give my absolute best for love.

Love is the only thing that really matters in this world.

I echo the above words. That is exactly how I feel about love too.

Love IS my life. I live to love, it is my purpose, my reason, my want and my need.

 

[minsue]

There's no such thing as unconditional love. If you search for it, you're made to look and feel like a fool.

I absolutely disagree. There are those I love unconditionally, some of whom have hurt me and that I would never allow back into my life, but I love them. Regardless of what they do for me or to me, what they say to me, I love them. There are no conditions. It isn't, "I love them as long as they love me or as long as they treat me a certain way," I simply love them. It's not a conscious decision. I have no control over it. There have been those in my life that I wish I didn't love, but I do. Unconditionally.

What love has taught me, I'll never be able to put into words. The past three months more than ever. Would that I could explain all that she, and her love, have taught me. Or all that my love for her has taught me. I can say, without hesitation or question, that my love for her is unconditional and all encompassing. There is nothing about this woman that I do not love.

 

[matriarch]

I absolutely disagree. There are those I love unconditionally, some of whom have hurt me and that I would never allow back into my life, but I love them. Regardless of what they do for me or to me, what they say to me, I love them. There are no conditions. It isn't, "I love them as long as they love me or as long as they treat me a certain way," I simply love them. It's not a conscious decision. I have no control over it. There have been those in my life that I wish I didn't love, but I do. Unconditionally.

What love has taught me, I'll never be able to put into words. The past three months more than ever. Would that I could explain all that she, and her love, have taught me. Or all that my love for her has taught me. I can say, without hesitation or question, that my love for her is unconditional and all encompassing. There is nothing about this woman that I do not love.

Have I told you recently, just how much you mean to me? How you make my life special, my waking moments come alive, my sleeping moments so totally comfortable and safe?
How simply seeing your smile, hearing your laugh does things to my heart I never thought to experience?
I adore you, love you with every fibre of my being, every part of me.
Unconditionally. I'm your's for as long as you want me.

 

[Guest]

I absolutely disagree. There are those I love unconditionally, some of whom have hurt me and that I would never allow back into my life, but I love them. Regardless of what they do for me or to me, what they say to me, I love them. There are no conditions. It isn't, "I love them as long as they love me or as long as they treat me a certain way," I simply love them. It's not a conscious decision. I have no control over it. There have been those in my life that I wish I didn't love, but I do. Unconditionally.

What love has taught me, I'll never be able to put into words. The past three months more than ever. Would that I could explain all that she, and her love, have taught me. Or all that my love for her has taught me. I can say, without hesitation or question, that my love for her is unconditional and all encompassing. There is nothing about this woman that I do not love.

stop that, this instant...
cuz
honest to god, im choked up.
im smitten by the love you two share.

 

[minsue]

... for as long as you want me.

I'm still waiting for the day you don't feel the need to add that part.

 

[minsue]

stop that, this instant...
cuz
honest to god, im choked up.
im smitten by the love you two share.

In the words of my all time favorite anti-drug commercial,

"I learned it from watching you, ok?!? I learned it from watching you! *sob*"

 

[Aurora Black]

I absolutely disagree. There are those I love unconditionally, some of whom have hurt me and that I would never allow back into my life, but I love them. Regardless of what they do for me or to me, what they say to me, I love them. There are no conditions. It isn't, "I love them as long as they love me or as long as they treat me a certain way," I simply love them. It's not a conscious decision. I have no control over it. There have been those in my life that I wish I didn't love, but I do. Unconditionally.

What love has taught me, I'll never be able to put into words. The past three months more than ever. Would that I could explain all that she, and her love, have taught me. Or all that my love for her has taught me. I can say, without hesitation or question, that my love for her is unconditional and all encompassing. There is nothing about this woman that I do not love.

Minsue, I'm glad for your happiness, but I spoke from my own experiences of love and I stand by my opinion. I simply can't imagine loving someone who would pound my heart into the dirt with their shoe; it's just incomprehensible to me.

It isn't, "I love them as long as they love me or as long as they treat me a certain way."

I never said that, and I actually cringed when I read that because it sounded to me like something a spoiled child would say. "I want the latest Barbie doll or I'll hate you forever!" I'm not like that.

 

[minsue]

Minsue, I'm glad for your happiness, but I spoke from my own experiences of love and I stand by my opinion. I simply can't imagine loving someone who would pound my heart into the dirt with their shoe; it's just incomprehensible to me.

I'm sorry for that. Of course it's opinion, as is mine. For me, and only for me, if there are any conditions involved, it isn't love.

I never said that, and I actually cringed when I read that because it sounded to me like something a spoiled child would say. "I want the latest Barbie doll or I'll hate you forever!" I'm not like that.

I didn't mean it quite that way, though I must admit, if boiled down I guess that's not far off. Love is different for everyone.