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What Feeling is so Strong it Can Give You Ultimate Satisfaction...But Ultimately Destroys You?

It feels like there are countless posts not just on GaG, but all over hte web, hypothesizing about what love is. What it feels like, how you can get it. Complaining about how it's something that you've failed to achieve through doing nothing, or which you can revel in after bending over backwards (figuratively speaking 🙈 ) to reach that point. I read all of these posts and for the longest time now, am at a loss of how to answer that very question. What is that feeling that is so strong that it has the ability to either make you feel a sense of ultimate satisfaction, or destroy who you are as a person?



So, though it doesn't happen often, I've attempted to verbalize what my own interpretation of what love is in this sappy bit of a take.

What is that feeling that is so strong that it has the ability to make you feel a sense of ultimate satisfaction as well as ultimately destroy you?



Love is a temporary madness that often may start based off of attraction or lust, but once that fades, comes down to a decision as to whether or not both parties are willing to put in actual effort and work at making things work. At putting in time towards sorting through any conflicts that almost inevitably will arise once the rose-coloured glasses are off and you realize that life must go on. That you can’t continue spending every single day in the bedroom, memorizing more and more crevices of your partner’s body.




While it is undeniably a lot of fun to enjoy those hormonal cocktails on the regular, you’ll have to be able to face reality sooner or later, and see if you’re both equally willing to do so together.




Love is not something we have, or can find perchance. It's not something that can prove it's presence through bouquets of flowers, or being dependent on the size of the rock on your engagement ring.


What Feeling is so Strong it Can Give You Ultimate Satisfaction...But Ultimately Destroys You?


Love is something we learn to become. A state of being.


Love is what motivates and helps you to put your pride aside and give serious thought towards trying to really get where your boyfriend is coming from. Love is what gives you that sucker punch in the stomach when your boyfriend tells you something that happened not so much in his favour, putting you in a position to feel WITH him, not FOR him. Love is having no desire to be intimate in any way with anyone but your significant other, regardless of how physically attracted you may be to someone else. Love is being able to completely willingly put your own needs aside in order to be able to do something for your partner’s benefit.




At the end of the day, them being happy is what makes you happy.


Love is not feeling like someone is your other half. That without them, you wouldn’t be yourself. Love is more like a feeling intellectually challenged by them on a regular basis. Which sure, can get very frustrating at certain moments but over time, helps both of you grow closer together while we both change for the better. Bringing whole new meaning to old couples being 'one and the same'. Making a bit of a reality out of a couple being a bit of a packaged deal.


What Feeling is so Strong it Can Give You Ultimate Satisfaction...But Ultimately Destroys You?


If you ask me someone with whom you find love is a mirror of yourself. Someone who will notice what you need to change with your life and what may be holding you back before you manage to get around to it. Not someone who’s perfect and comes alongside a horse drawn carriage.



Love is something that will overtake you as if it's whole new addition to yourself. Though this individual will have plenty of flaws, when you combine them with your own, you'll find that the result is a pairing whose flaws work just right. Perfectly in sync with each other.


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What Feeling is so Strong it Can Give You Ultimate Satisfaction...But Ultimately Destroys You?
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