Oh, this is a bit hard for me to ask… But, here it goes.
I am only just becoming a teenager, and I can’t… bring myself to understand this aspect of life.
I have read almost everything I can find on the subject of love. I know a lot concerning the chemicals that release to make one feel as though they would fall apart without their loved one, feel invincible or absurdly happy, and even feel as though they could die for him or her. And I understand that part, but… I can’t grasp what my mother says…
My mother has been telling me as long as I can remember that someday I will fall in love, and only then will I finally ‘get the picture’, and that having someone to love romantically is ‘the only way to be truly happy.’ But, I have been described by some as ‘emotionally inept’ and… well, incapable of loving anyone ‘that way’.
And, well, perhaps the question I have posed is not the one I want to know the answer to. Maybe... Can anyone be ‘truly happy’ without romantic love?
2007-03-24
21:58:26
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Athena Lynn.
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