Is true love a thing of the past? have lust and movies and music replaced our learning love.?

Question

I am a child of the 50s There was no birth control pill. The woman was birth control. In the movies we learned of love. Our music supported our growth in love. If you asked a child of the 50s to define love , you might be supprized.

i have seen young people define love and have been saddened, I now understand why there are so many divorces. Living in a housing project in Brooklyn NY, I had hundreds of friends , non of who were children of divorce.

I thought that only movie stars got divorced.

Does love still exist, Would you want to end your life like Juliet or just move to the next guy.

Is the fullness of love dead?

Answer 1

Love is for the blind.

Movies and music aren't to blame for lost love... it's lust. It's the promiscuous nature of our hormonal teenagers these days. The lack of control and decorum that was present way back in the day.

It seems like... as time goes on, styles change, social conduct becomes looser, and children begin to lust after one another, believing that everything is love, yet not being old enough to really know what love is yet. I think that is the problem. Back then, guys and girls did not date until they were at least 18, typically. They did not "settle down" until they were at least out of high school. But now, you see children who are barely out of grammar school holding hands, speaking of grand notions such as love, and not know what it truly is because they don't have the capacity to understand it yet.

Love... is real. But very rare.

Many never experience true love in their lifetime. It's disheartening, surely, but people take the next best thing. Infatuation. Caring. Mutual advantages. Sexual exchanges. The promise of commitment. The mention of love, when it's probably just a strong "like."

I think... to truly love someone, you must be willing to sacrifice everything for that person. The only true way to be sure you love your significant other as much as possible is if you would be willing to take a bullet for them. To be willing to risk your life, not knowing if EITHER would survive if you did so, to save your significant other. If... there was only a 1% chance of saving your SO, and 99% chance that you risking your life to do so would equate to your demise... you still take that chance to save your loved one, because dying is better than living without them. That, if your SO needed a heart to survive, a beating one, you'd be willing to give them yours, figuratively and literally, just having the satisfaction in knowing that they're living, even though you won't be any longer.

That's what true love is to me.

So far... I've yet to meet one couple who are truly in love. They exchange pleasantries, cuddle, do things that people do in relationships that throw around the word, but... I doubt they'd be willing to die for one another.

Loving... is sacrifice. That's what I'd define it as.

Hopefully this answers your question.

Answer 2

The answer to your question is yes. Love still exists but it's a lot rarer than we might think you would more find real love in the older generation...simply because they understood the meaning of real love...the kind of love that has substance, and meaning, some of the younger people get confused with the meaning of love, it is more lust than anything else, thats why there is so much jealousy, not allowing the other person to breath, but wanting to own, cage, dominate, suffocate, how can real love flourish when being stifled, and this leads to infidelity, and broken hearts, and failed marriages...and ending ones life for the sake of love, like romeo, and juliet might seem to show that the love was strong but no one benifits from dying for love...i happen to think love never dies, it is eternal, if it is deep and meaningful, it can never be lost, even after death.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I totally agree. I am 18 and when I hear my friends talk about how they love their boyfriends it makes me sick, the way most people define love it sounds like the love they have for a pet, not a human being. However their are still people out there that know what love is.

Answer 5

i agree. the fullness of love is dead. to me, it seems like nobody really wants to step up and accept a person as a complete package. strengths, weaknesses, and all. i must confess that i have problems at this myself.

in addition to the pop culture, i also blame technology. all the dating sites on the net have such powerful search capabilities. i believe many folks think they can 'custom order' the perfect person who has no weaknesses at all. i may be wrong about this but i'm pretty sure that many internet date site subscribers fail to account for the human factor in the technology. you have roughly equal chances of finding your soulmate on the net as you do in real life.

spiritually speaking, the fullness of love dying is in accord with the bible and it's prophecy. if god is love, and the world will move further and further from god as time progresses, then it's only natural to see more hate and less love celebrated and practiced in our society.