Is Love Even Real?

[Justmehere]

I want love to be real. Maybe right now, this is enough to hold on.

 

[illusionist]

It will come to you Justmehere..we just have to lay the grounds and open our minds. Took me a long time to do these things..Awareness is half the battle, in what we need to work on, within ourselves.

 

[Debfish]

You're not alone! I've questioned it many times. I even questioned the love between a mother and her children. I haven't come to any conclusions yet except love comes and goes at different times between different people.

 

[Marine John]

My wife and friends have shown me real love exists. I've put my wife through hell as a cop and later alcoholic, ptsd issues, intact issues, and my feeling of low self worth. Yet she loves me like I'm a the nest person in the world, even when I feel like the biggest shit bag in the universe.

After my third trip to rehab, I offered her an uncontested divorce. Now mind you I've been lying and sneaking around for years about my drinking. Her family and mine wouldn't have blamed her, I begged her to leave me. Several times. Even last month. She won't.

Yet she said she knew I was sick and that was part of the vows and she's sticking to it. Says she can see the good person I really am. She can see past the traumas and triggers, flashbacks and rage explosions (no, I don't hit here. I run. When I get angry and if pushed and triggered I hulk out and destroy any INANIMATE object around me until I wear myself down). I'm afraid of my own anger, but she isn't. She knows how to handle me.

So, yes. It exists. Part of the problem is accepting that you deserve to be loved. The other us learning to reprogram your mind that your not as shitty as that one man show in your head tells you.

Best of luck, mate!

 

[Glara]

I know romantic love is real because my high school boyfriend loved me and I've always been looking for that in someone that I can love back. If I hadn't met him I don't know if I'd believe it because I didn't see it growing up. I guess I'm still looking for it but doubting I'll ever find it. Thought I did with my sufferer but idk what he felt. Maybe he did and it scared him, maybe he thought he did but realized it was a fantasy, maybe it was a game, maybe he left for my sake.. I don't really believe that one. I don't know what I do believe except that the type of love I hoped for probably just isn't in the cards for me. I have to be happy with being able to support myself comfortably and have my sweet little puppy love me and cuddle with me everyday. And whatever else comes along, it is what it is.

 

[The Albatross]

The four Greek words for love that are important for Christians to understand. They are agape, phileo, storge, and eros.

The Greek word that refers to the love of God, one of the kinds of love we are to have for people, is agape.

The Greek word for sexual love or passionate love is eros.

The third word for “love” we need to examine is phileo, which means “to have a special interest in someone or something, frequently with focus on close association; have affection for, like, consider someone a friend.”

The fourth Greek word we need to understand is storge, which is the love and affection that naturally occurs between parents and children, can exist between siblings, and exists between husbands and wives in a good marriage.