Sometimes loving someone isn’t enough to make a relationship work... You can have a deep connection, genuinely care about each other, and still realize that timing, compatibility, circumstances, or whatever you each need makes being together difficult. Do you think it’s possible to love someone deeply and still know you shouldn’t be together? …
Can you love someone deeply and still know you shouldn’t be together?
My aim here on GAG is to decode all the messy, beautiful chaos of love and attraction for you 😏
Yes, you can 100% love someone deeply and still know you shouldn’t be together. Love isn’t the only ingredient. Values, timing, emotional maturity, attachment style, even life goals matter.
Sometimes they’re your great love, not your forever partner. Painful, but also a green flag for your self-respect.
I don't think that's the case... not romantically anyways. If you truly love someone, you'll find a way or try your hardest to be in their life, as you can't imagine a life living without them.
If someone leaves you, it just means they didn't value you enough to stay with you.
Yep I do understand where ur coming from… I just think sometimes you can love someone deeply and still know that letting them go is the most loving thing you can do… no?
Yes. I met a lady named Petra when I was 36. She was 30. We wound up living together for two years. Of all the girlfriends I had had since I was 16, she was the first lady I ever loved with my heart and soul. She loved me, too. I would have been happy to marry her and spent the rest of my life with her. I was at a point in my life where I wanted to get married and settle down.
But, in the end, I realized that we couldn't have made it as life long partners. Even though we loved each other, we wound up separating for reasons that are too complicated to go into but had nothing to do with cheating or anything mean. She eventually moved out of state to be near her mom and teen age son.
Being away from her was the greatest pain I have ever experienced in my life but I knew there was no point in returning. It would have eventually caused me even greater pain. As it is, it took me a year to pull myself together and move on with my life.
Even though I married a wonderful woman three years later, I never stopped loving Petra and will never forget her. I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to have had two blissful years with that extraordinary woman.
I heard that the died 11 years ago at the age of 55 from a sudden medical problem.
Yes I do beleive it's possible. Love comes in different forms and sometimes if you love a person deeply and you know that being together as a couple is not realistic you channel what you feels in acts of friendship and loyalty instead. At times silent love is the most powerful and holds much more value than the one that is openly declared which can be superficial and effimeral instead.
I'm glad you do. It's pretty much how I live my life overall. I think Humans make the mistake of seeing things just black or white or seeking physical love and perhaps falling in love with the romance story when friendship between a man and a woman where attraction is involved and where feelings of deep love are not necessarily openly said is so much more meaningful. Because in life a lover not always coincides with your best friend and rarely are these two traits found in the same person which would make that person your soul mate.
Yes you can, physical attraction doesn't get along with how your mind thinks! Personally i convince myself that this girl ain't mine and that i'll find someone better, especially that these days i prefer a lot more a woman who makes me happy instead of just being beautiful!
absolutely. Sometimes the world just throws so many roadblocks in your way that there is no way to make the relationship work. The only option is to walk away and try to get past it all.
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My aim here on GAG is to decode all the messy, beautiful chaos of love and attraction for you 😏
Yes, you can 100% love someone deeply and still know you shouldn’t be together. Love isn’t the only ingredient. Values, timing, emotional maturity, attachment style, even life goals matter.
Sometimes they’re your great love, not your forever partner. Painful, but also a green flag for your self-respect.