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30 Days of Me: Day 27

30 Days of Me

Day 27 — what are your views on love? do you think it’s real? do you think we only experience one love per lifetime?

My views on love are that yes it is real and I believe that you only experience one true love in a lifetime. You may have love with someone else but I think you only ever get one true love. I am talking about love though and not physical attraction which at times can be confused. Attraction is just that, the basic animal instinct that is within us all. Love, especially true love, has no explanation or reasoning.

You know that you have found true love, in my opinion, when asked why you love someone and just can’t really put your finger on one thing. You know what I mean? Like Edgar is a wonderful man, hardworking, great father, good-looking, sensitive, and all the things that women look for in a man. While I love him for all those things there is something else that draws me to him that I just can’t explain.

To quote Downton Abbey and be a bit sappy “I wouldn’t be happy with anyone else as long as he walked the Earth.”

What are your views on love?

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I live in a small Georgia town that you most likely have never heard of and I LOVE it! My house is more than full as I am a single mother of four & caregiver to my aging mother and uncle. Lover of all things Outlander. Goes to the beat of her own drum woman.

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  1. My views on love are that there are different kinds of love, The Love I have for my children is a love like none other! It’s like that country song says, It’s a love with out end! The love I have for my husband is a true deep in my heart love, BUT does not compare to that love for my children and God. Don’t get me wrong I will stand by him and up for him till the day I die, I would give my life for him! My children and God will always come first and he feels the same way. 🙂

  2. I think love is indeed real. I also think that there are many kinds of love and that we can experience love many times in a long life.

  3. I do think love is real. I think that you can love more than once in your life. I still have love for the previous men in my life but in a caring kind of way because thats just who i am. Although I do think we can only experience one TRUE love which is my hubby we understand eachother better than anyone will ever grasp.

  4. I believe there is one who is really truly made for us, but I think few really ever find that person.

  6. Love is both letting go and never wanting to let go, at the same time. When I promise to love my wife, I am promising to both acknowledge that she belongs to God and that I must let go of her, in that way, and it is the desire I have to never part from her. It is an act of giving and receiving, serving and being served, becoming one and yet remaining whole selves.

    The truth is that I don’t know if it can come more than once in a lifetime, because I’ve only experienced it once and have not, by God’s grace, had occasion to have to try to find it again.

  7. I think love is real, I just think people use the word too lightly and too often. I lso think people experience it more than once, it doesn’t have to be a relationship love, but I’m sure when a mother gives birth to her daughter, and hold him/her for the first time, I’m sure that’s love.

  8. i believe in love, but have been in it more than once. i am not sure about only one true love because i may have had that already and to think that i will not have it again is hard to swallow.

  9. I believe you can have more than one (romantic) love, but only one true match – someone who fits you perfectly and complements you in every way. I will miss this series when you’re done!

  10. I believe that real love takes real work. You have to promise (yourself, God, the other person, society) that you will keep loving them no matter what.

  11. I believe in love of course! Just like seeing your newborn and believing in miracles you can SEE, I believe in love that is unseen but with a FEELING that is just as real.

    I don’t believe in a FATE thing, like you made something happen and went somewhere and because of your choice you were MEANT to be together. I do believe that God places you where you need to be in the timing that was meant to be so that you are ALLOWED to meet your true love. But he also gives you free will, so often that choice is not made. Or in some cases the person HE chose for you may use their free will to do something wrong or hurtful or maybe the people grow out of each other because of pressures or material things or another person. That is why I think we have divorce. People use their free will without thinking things through or being too selfish to be TRUE to their love, family, even themSELVES?

    So ONE true love? I am not sure. I think you can feel the same love and level for another as you might have before. People always say, OH, that person I was with before was not my true love, but NOW it is. Discounting the old feelings with an ex is maybe doing so because the person you are with NOW is the one you went through major experiences with…like having children or maybe even bad things you go through together that pulls you closer.
    Being hurt by someone can make you want to SAY it could not have been true love, but if you take yourself back…it may have been that same feeling. Not the attraction, not the surface stuff…that thing in your gut that makes you feel like although you COULD live without them, You sure as heck would never want to. And feels like you have been born to each other from the beginning and then til’ end.

    wow, Rita. these are really DEEP questions!

  12. I do believe that love is real and that it only happens once in a lifetime but also believe that it takes hard work to keep that love alive. I know that I already found my true love but sometimes we have ups and downs just like any other relationship but who said love was easy 🙂

  13. I think love is real and there are many levels of love, some deeper than others. As depressing as it sounds, I’ve found that in the end you always have to say goodbye which is the worst worst part, so cherish the time you have with those you love

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