

It is the force that bonds families and faith. Love is pure spiritual magnetism that cannot be forced or owned or controlled. Love is not an idea but rather a relationship, and a relationship lives in that space between you and the one you love. Love is between you and the person you love.

Innocence is the beginning of all love but not its culmination. In this way, the needfulness of children can become the nurturing sacrifice of a parent. The love of children needs to be informed by the duty and sacrifices of adulthood. The loving innocence of childhood is pure and gracious, but it is not yet sacrificial. Love begins as innocence but must grow beyond innocence. Lewis Conscience Conscious Love Courage Death Differentiation Emotional Maturity Gratitude Immature Love Intimacy Intimate Relationships Love Love is a Choice Love is a Commitment Love is a Decision Love is Not a Feeling M.Young couples can be in lust, but it takes time, real time, shared time, lived time, sacrificial time to really be in love.

The Critical Thinking & Examined Life Blog.Please share below in the comment section what “I love you” means to you when you say it to your partner or spouse or beloved, or when you hear it spoken to you. And thus obviously you are not a means or a prop to me, but a real person I see the you of you, I see who you are in your core, and I appreciate and relish that, and I am so grateful that you want to share yourself with me.”-? Thus you are not expendable and interchangeable, nor can you ever be. There is no one who thinks like you, acts like you, sees the world like you, sees me like you do, has your little quirks and neuroticisms, your little eccentricities. Or does it ultimately mean- “In all the world, you are unique to me. You agree with me, you support me, you validate me, you make me look good to others, you give me what I want, and this is why you are important to me and why I keep you around and why I say that I love you to you.”-? What does it really mean when you say “I love you” to your partner/spouse?ĭoes it ultimately mean- “I like/love/am addicted to how you make me feel, I like/love/am addicted to what you do for me because it makes me feel warm, glowing, giddy, alive.
