Have you heard people use the term “love of my life”? Have you used it? And what is it really? What constitutes using that phrase? Can it happen more than once and therefore, an overused, trite phrase? Is it really “love of my life right now”? Or worse, do you only know that because it was someone you let get away? Someone you wish you hadn’t? Or have you yet to meet the “love of your life,” and are you still waiting? To me, this means someone you love wholly. Someone you don’t want to change, and someone who doesn’t want to change you in any way. It’s that someone who fulfills you--emotionally, sexually, intellectually. That person who makes you laugh. Who “gets” you. Who finds you beautiful even when you know you’re not. It’s acceptance. It’s that someone who makes you love yourself, even when it’s very hard to do. It’s someone who looks into you, at your scars, both figuratively and literally, and loves you anyway. And it’s symbiotic. To me, it doesn’t mean a perfect love or a love that is superficial. It is deep, fulfilling. It is a love that challenges you on occasion. A love that is passionate. A love that transcends anything you’ve ever felt before. It’s poetry really. It’s beauty but not in a physical sense. Not at all. It’s about souls connecting in another dimension of living. It makes you feel as if you weren’t living before. And it’s never jealous. Is this “love of my life” real? Fleeting? Just another romantic fantasy? For those of us who have been there, it’s the very reason for existence. i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) E.E. Cummings
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2/14/2019 16:27:06
I fell in love at the age of eight - truly, madly, deeply, to quote a film title. I had a relationship with him when I was 19, for a couple of years, but I knew that he didn't truly love me. We split and he married. Less than a year later he was killed in an auto accident. So I lost him twice - and I mourned for a long time. I suppose I have spent much of my life looking for another man like him. None of the men since then have measured up, and I preferred to settle for happy single than discontented wife.
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Stacy Mann
2/14/2019 16:49:43
High School sweethearts, that's what we were! I once thought him to be the love of my life, but alas, he turned out to be the worst part of my life! I was young, nieve, "in love"! I have often wondered after the others why even they never felt like the "love of my life", perhaps even though the love was there ....it never quite felt right in the end my perception of love and their perception didn't come close to being the definition of what love was.....I will find the love of my life and then there will be no holding back!
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David lee
2/16/2019 10:42:18
I have thought I was in love. The mother of my children we hung around in high school . She was older than I was and enjoyed her company we would talk for many hours on end . Looking back now at what we had together . It wasn’t the kinda love that was reciprocated . It was like loving down a one way street. I gave and gave until I had nothing more than my self worth. It ended after her being unfaithful
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Pat
2/22/2019 11:52:37
You always think the one you’re with is the love of your life. I’ve had a few in the past few years some turned out to be liars and broke my heart in the process! I still look for my love of my life, there’s one I’m truly afraid to meet. She’s in the education field, author and similar tastes even though she’s younger than I. I’m terrified to meet her one day even though I have only seen fragments of what she looks like. To me she’s gorgeous inside and out one day I hope to travel to Boston for a change meeting!
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