kosh62 wrote:
What happens if you don't have love?



...you become a bitter, angry person posting on a comic book message board?

If love is just a temporary chemical reaction in the brain, what happens when it wears off?


Take a look at the divorce rate in America for the answer to that.

Can you really come to love another complete and total stranger enough to be intimate with them for the rest of your life, despite all the changes you and they both go through, in personality as well as physical?  You're not the same person at fifty as you were at forty or thirty or twenty. You don't have the small taste in music, food, or books and movies. Can you still love the person you fell in love with at twenty  when you and they are both sixty? Neither one of you are the same person you were when married.


There are definitely people who can stay together through all of that and not become miserable. However, I'd say the majority who stay together are just afraid of being alone, and don't want to rock the boat by going out and finding happiness. Better to be comfortably miserable than uncomfortably miserable.

I love my cat and he loves me. Is that enough?


I hear there's videos of that kind of love on the internet. I don't approve of it.

Does love indeed stink?


Yes. It's all bull$#!+ rationalization man has felt the need to layer onto the urge to *%*# (for fun and/or procreation), and a trap laid to keep people in a monogamous relationship to raise children, even though they're miserable and hate each other. Wait, wait, Marriage is the trap, but love is the reese's pieces laid on the ground to lead you into the trap. And too many reese's pieces can be bad for you.

(And no, I'm not having girlfriend troubles. Don't even have a girlfriend. Just saw a Valentine's Day sale banner on the way to work and got to musing on a slow Friday afternoon...)


I resemble that "bitter, angry, posting on a comic book message board" remark from earlier in the post.