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Feb 5 10 4:44 PM
Golden Age
kosh62 wrote: Can you still love the person you fell in love with at twenty when you and they are both sixty?
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1CO 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
My name is Oedi and I soar amidst the stars far from the planet of my birth. I guess this starship is the closest thing I've got to a home now, for I am a refugee and an outlaw. Vanth Dreadstar, Syzygy Darklock, Willow 327, Rainbow and Skeevo are my family. We are revolutionaries. Our goal? To bring an end to the 200 year old war between the Instrumentality and the Monarchy!
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kosh62 wrote:What happens if you don't have love?
If love is just a temporary chemical reaction in the brain, what happens when it wears off?
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.
I love my cat and he loves me. Is that enough?
Does love indeed stink?
(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...)
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ElectricPeterTork wrote:kosh62 wrote:What happens if you don't have love?...you become a bitter, angry person posting on a comic book message board?
Feb 5 10 9:59 PM
kosh62 wrote: I love my cat and he loves me. Is that enough?
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Feb 5 10 10:09 PM
Sentry 459 wrote: My wife and I have been married 1/2 as long as Ray and his wife. Not as many changes, but some. However, our love for each other is a nice blend of chronological changes combined with eternal constants (faith) and good memories. To sum it up, a loving relationship cherishes the past, faces the challenges of the present, and is filled with hope for the future.
Feb 5 10 10:10 PM
DeBricazar wrote: Sentry 459 wrote: My wife and I have been married 1/2 as long as Ray and his wife. Not as many changes, but some. However, our love for each other is a nice blend of chronological changes combined with eternal constants (faith) and good memories. To sum it up, a loving relationship cherishes the past, faces the challenges of the present, and is filled with hope for the future.Sentry, no wonder you're such a happy guy.
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Feb 5 10 11:53 PM
HighlandRay wrote:I have loved the same girl/woman for almost 40 years, through her teens, 20's, 30's, 40's & 50's and through my 20's, 30's, 40's 50's and now my 60's. We have both changed a great deal in that time both mentally and physically. Our tastes have also changed, but not in our love for each other. If it is possible I think that we love each other more now than ever. Do I look at other woman, of course I do, but that's as far as it goes. I want for nothing and desire no more than I have. I guess I'm one of the luckiest guys on the planet.
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ElectricPeterTork wrote: I resemble that "bitter, angry, posting on a comic book message board" remark from earlier in the post.
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dearlenbaugh wrote: I can't speak for my wife, but the reason the marriage works for me is that I feel she is better than I deserve, and I'm getting the better of the deal. I always feel fortunate that she married me.
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