2006-10-20 11:11:59 · 4 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hi
You ask a perennially tough question.
You'd be best to define the word love.
The love you feel for your lover is sexual love - not generally acceptable to feel towards others.
The love you feel towards a sister or brother is brotherly love and would be OK towards another's family members or maybe even their friends.
However, just because you have a lover and feel sexual love towards that person does not mean that you love them in the deepest sense of the word (English is so confusing...).
This deep kind of love takes time to develop and is such that you will care more for the other person's wants and needs than you do your own. Most parents love their children in this way. Most older couples love in this way but most lovers do not probably because they have not taken the time to allow deep love to develop. In this sense, the sexual attraction and focus may actually get in the way of deeper love developing!
If your love for the other person is of this deep kind then you will love (brotherly) their friends and relatives simply BECAUSE they love them (and you care about the other person more than you care about yourself). (You still may not be able to stand being around these other people for more than 10 minutes at a time though - that is a different thing.).
I hope that this has been some help??
2006-10-20 11:37:02 · answer #1 · answered by Gilley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
2006-10-20 18:16:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. But if they're a problem, you'd better learn to suck it up and deal with them.
2006-10-20 18:14:37 · answer #3 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but you should be nice to them
2006-10-20 18:14:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋