It is Your Responsibility to Know What Love is and What it Isn’t
It is your responsibility to know what love is. This is an overview of some of the things we will be discussing on the topic of mature love vs immature love. Have you ever wondered about mature love or what love is in general, because it is your responsibility to know the difference.
Love is not only about your feelings and longings about the man or woman you want to be in a romantic relationship with. It is about everyday love and about what it involves. Therefore it is important to ask yourself these questions. What is the true meaning of the words “I love you”? How can you be sure if what you are feeling is based on mature love or immature love?
There Are Many Kinds of Love to Consider
There are different kinds of love, not just the romantic kind of love. For example, the love you have for a parent, a sibling, a child, self love, your job, your hobbies etc. Therefore lets consider if some of the things we think of as love….is….really love. Again it is your responsibility to know what love is.
Love Comes With Responsibilities
It is your responsibility to know what love is. We need to understand what those responsibilities are and how to implement them within our relationships. However, I believe that our responsibilities should be an automatic knowing, not something we should be taught. However many have no idea how to show love, mostly because they were never shown love in their own lives.
This post is only the tip of the iceberg and a beginning of a journey to learn about love. How to love others, but in some ways more importantly, how to love self. We must learn to love the self if we are to learn to love others.
What Is Love?
Use the following questions to prompt you to think about what your opinions may be.
Do we misunderstand what our minds, and our hearts are trying to tell us?
If we are jealous of our loved ones, is it love?
If we give our children everything they want, is it love?
If we have an obsession about someone who is out of our reach and we tell ourselves , “we must have them because we love them so much” is it really love?
These are some of the ideas I want to explore along with you, let us begin to learn together and hopefully grow into a mature idea of what love is, and what it isn’t.
“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition”
Alexander Smith
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Love is very important and we all need whether we think so or not. looking forward to future posts. your friend.
Thanks friend, it is important to all of us, now if we can try to get things right an dstop hurting one another, we're getting somewhere 🙂
You’re absolutely right ! We truly need to stop and think before we say and or act in ways that may harm others. Thank you for your response nerak