| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/4/2008 1:36:10 PM | | Love aint dead yet, it's still floppin' around. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/4/2008 5:03:37 PM | I hope love isn't dead. For what is life without love? I want to love again. I want to be special to someone again. I want to put little notes in his car or his pocket telling him I am thinking about it. I want to give my man a back rub after a hard days work. I want to see the world. I want to take care of someone again and have him take care of me. I was married 17 years before being replaced by a younger model. But it still has not jaded me, that love is still out there for me. I want a love I can have til for the rest of my life. I will wait, I have waited almost 4 years now. I am patient, to get what I want. A end of life, forever love. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 3:33:47 PM | | I went into an Arby's today and when I had my food I sat near an elderly couple.She had the blank look of dementia on her face as he fed her and talked to her,smiling the whole time.He would hold a drink up so she could sip through the straw and wipe her mouth with a napkin.If you could have seen how happy he was just to be there with her, you would never ask the question " is love dead?" I had to leave because I started crying,thinking of my Mom and Dad and how he cared for her until she died. Life is unfair and people can be awful but there is someone for you and me,we just have to not give up,many years later my Dad remarried(72) and spent some of the happiest days of his life with his new(70)wife.He always said how lucky he was to be with 2 great women during his life. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 3:39:41 PM | | I sure hope the mopy, obsessive, control-freak part of it is. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 7:31:52 PM | | Love is a responsiblity and some people just don't want to have that responsiblity. If you love somthing or for that matter someone you care for it and with caring comes responsibility. I don't think that love is dead. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 8:55:02 PM |
Is love dead?
Nietzsche:
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
Creatively licensed by yours truly:
If love is dead, and remains dead it is only because we've killed it.
Much like a couple other threads floating around the 45+ area. Yes?
Love, romance and courting are not dead. They are concepts and ideas, values and ways of living. They are not physical entitites that either live or die. They morph and transition. Love is no longer defined in very strict terms.
People have decided that love as a word, encompasses a lot more than it used to. You just have to find the person that places the same meaning on it, as you do. Not an easy task obviously, but certainly one worth undertaking. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 10:30:14 PM | Why ask that question here ?
Here you will often hear from folks who have been looking
and may just be a wee bit discouraged.
“I can’t find it, so it must not exist”.
Don’t ask that question of people who are NOT “In Love”.
Go find some folks who are in its thrall. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 10:44:21 PM | Good point Esad,
I watch my daughter and her boyfriend and the way they interact with each other...how accepting they are. Sorta makes me jealous yet I am very happy for them. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 10:58:36 PM | "Love is when mommy tastes daddies coffee before giving it to him to make sure it's just right" says a four year old when asked what love means...
Out of the mouthes of babes.. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 11:05:52 PM | rustytraveler you are beautiful lady and 59 years young. Love is not dead. It is simply in the process of manifesting itself to suit your current wants, needs, and desires.
So just stand still and let the universe unfold around you the way it's meant to be.
In the meantime...
as long as you love yourself, that's all that matters.
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 11:17:31 PM | If it is, I'm giving it mouth-to-mouth and reviving it. Everything good is worth working hard for .................  .... or is it everything hard is worth .... wait ......  | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/5/2008 11:40:18 PM |
Nietzsche:
"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him."
Creatively licensed by yours truly:
If love is dead, and remains dead it is only because we've killed it.
Much like a couple other threads floating around the 45+ area. Yes?
Love, romance and courting are not dead. They are concepts and ideas, values and ways of living. They are not physical entitites that either live or die. They morph and transition. Love is no longer defined in very strict terms.
People have decided that love as a word, encompasses a lot more than it used to. You just have to find the person that places the same meaning on it, as you do. Not an easy task obviously, but certainly one worth undertaking.
Nietzche.....
Wonderful, thoughtful post. I can't add anymore. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/6/2008 12:10:49 AM |
I watch my daughter and her boyfriend and the way they interact with each other...how accepting they are. Sorta makes me jealous yet I am very happy for them.
I love this post.
When we lose faith in humankind and become overly cynical, let the kids show the way...they will, if you give them a chance. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/6/2008 1:20:26 PM |
I'm giving it mouth-to-mouth and reviving it. That'll revive something!
Has love ever been alive?
It's something we make. No, not just the physical part :-) It's created every time two people decide that it's time to move beyond friendship. It takes mutual respect and integrity to maintain it, those also seem to be it's foundations.
For me it's wanting to know my partner so well that I can finish her sentences. Know exactly the right spot to scratch, and when. It progresses to things like being able to taste your partner's coffee and know that it's right (thanks Tranquill Spaces). It's not a completion, but a completeness. Not losing ourselves in each other, but the two of us making a larger whole than the parts could be. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/6/2008 6:38:35 PM | Love is not dead. But it is dead in the minds and hearts of a lot of people. If it were truly dead, then we couldn't be here now. Reality is centered around it.
If you want your hearts to be filled with true love, it takes looking outward and seeing it in everything you see, not buying into the illusion most are living. That is basically judgment. The deeper you can see love in everyone and everything, the higher you can put your spouse on that cosmic pedestal, simple universal respect. Trust happens on its own, because when you love that way, there is no lieing, you are exposed and can be seen. Then it comes back to you, for laws of resonance are real, magnetics , karma, what ever you choose to call it.
Looking for the perfect mind, or body, is shallow thinking, looking at what is real in all things, will open your heart to love. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/6/2008 9:04:36 PM | | Love doesn't die. Love is all there is. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/7/2008 6:06:59 AM | | I do not believe that love is dead. A lot of people have had their heart's broken and are very cautious when considering the L word. Bottom line, I think people still need to feel loved and that is what most would say they are looking for, not a one night stand with its emptiness, but a deep and lasting love. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/7/2008 6:57:47 AM | ....I was watching my sister gather all the supplies needed to prepare the evening meal last night. She placed everything on the counter in readiness while she washed mushrooms... as if on que her husband appeared from nowhere and suddenly started cutting onions. At one point he bent down and gave her and kiss before he gently nudged her to one side so he could wash potatoes.
It was heart warming to watch their playfulness...I want that again....love is not dead, I see it everywhere....I just need to wait my turn.
...maeflowers | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/7/2008 3:48:14 PM | | Right on, Mae! It's all those little moments of sharing and playfulness that lead to affection and love......... | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 9/7/2008 5:32:17 PM | | I whole heartedly agree with maeflower. We just have to wait our turn. ...................... | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 10/24/2008 9:50:38 PM | | Love is a choice in the unpredictablity of life. An attraction of traits in your partner that could last a lifetime through hell and heaven. It is when one partner no longer chooses to love, and the world changes. I think one of the best love stories of the modern age is that of Christopher Reeves and Dana's unwavering commitment of love through it all. I believe we are each responsible for our own happiness. No matter how hard we try, each person must find it on their own. We have to choose to be happy, to love everyday, and to offer that to the ones around us. Love is always alive around us, if we choose to see it. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 10/25/2008 4:04:21 AM | Love is just an emotion that comes and goes. We thought we were in love at one time and yet are here on a dating site.
What kills love at our age is the armor we put on with middle age and loss of openeness. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 10/25/2008 4:47:20 AM | Love isn't dead. I think it's toying with us.
Falling in love at age 20 was so easy. With a life expectancy of 90+ that was a 70 year commitment.
So now that we are older and the commitment is no where near that long shouldn't it be easier?
Does being older and wiser make it harder? I hope not! | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 10/25/2008 4:57:11 AM | | ^^^^^ You're forgetting, at age 20, everyone looks pretty decent! They tend to be healthy, too. Maybe those are reasons why it's easier at that age. | |
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| Is love dead?
Posted: 10/25/2008 5:04:14 AM | | And at 20, there is so much life in front of you and so much less behind you. 20-Somethings haven't had time to become jaded by all that experience, so life looks pretty good to them. | |
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