I understand and agree thoroughly with the "truth" in points 1-10, but I dont get the others entirely. No big deal, though. This is the common concept of love that most people believe in and I do, too, but what the kind of romance where love is present, but there is also abuse in the relationship? Can one love someone, but at the same time, be emotionally unstable and abuse their partner by striking and controlling? What if the person that is being abused enjoys receiving it; the dominance and abuse and is fine with it? In this case, could this could be considered "true love"?
I'm not sure why I ask... 
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |