Can you have passion (or love) without heartbreak?

Question

follow up: Is it worth it?

I don't mean just about people, like passion for pursuits in your life... sometimes it seems like the more you love, the more you suffer...

Answer 1

If there is never any kind of loss or heartbreak, you will never truly understand real love. It is better to have loved and lossed than to have never loved at all they say. I believe them.

Answer 2

Passion and love may be two separate ideas. The desire to be physically intimate with another person has a different drive than the desire to serve or care for another. Granted, you can serve and care during the 'act' but the origin of the drive is different. The desire to perform the act of 'passion' over and over with the same person may dissipate and even disappear altogether only to be rekindled with the new where as the desire to serve and care for another could last a lifetime.

Answer 3

Imagine an invisible, undetectable force that's powerful
enough to override your sense of reason yet draws you
to someone with an almost animal passion. These aren't
Cupid's mythological arrows, but real shots of human
pheromones.

http://health.discovery.com/centers/sex/aphrodisiacs/phermones.html

Welcome to The Scent of Eros:
Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality -

'Scientists in Philadelphia have established for the first
time that the human body produces pheromones, special
aromatic chemical compounds discharged by one individual
that affect the sexual physiology of another'....

http://www.athenainstitute.com/discovery.html

Do pheromones work in human sexual attraction?

They may be odorless and colorless and their function may be
mysterious, but human pheromones at last have the zest of
scientific truth. Researchers at the University of Chicago
have demonstrated that compounds swabbed from the
'underarms' of young women at different times of the month
can alter the length of other women's menstrual cycles,
compressing or expanding the cycles in predictable
fashion....

http://www.ishipress.com/humanodo.htm

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9803/11/pheromones/index.html

What is the force that lights the fuse between two
complete strangers? What current pulses through their veins,
engorges their hearts, occupies their minds and numbs their
texting fingers? Ah, if only

I knew. As magic formulas go, sexual chemistry must surely
be the most valuable. It's intoxicating effects are more
pleasurable and more powerful than any drug and when it hits,
it hits hard. There are the rushes of ecstacy, the gut wrenching
anticipation, fluttering, dizziness, and the diminished
concentration that turns day-dreaming into a full-time job.
And then there are the side effects. A positively Colombian
annihilation of appetite and its confidence- boosting by-product,
weight loss. And it is free. And it is legal. It is bloody amazing.

But no one knows what "it" is. Scientists have managed to
map our genetic blueprint. They understand the subtleties
of hormones and the complexities of the emotional brain.
But the thing that makes two people click remains a mystery.
Theories abound as to what, or why. Those looking for a
magic bullet (or Cupid's arrow) tend to favour the notion
of pheromones - scents secreted by the sweat glands in the
'armpits' and pubic hair. And the relatively recent discovery
of the vomeronasal organ, a small chemo-sensory structure in
the human nose, lends the concept some weight.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030629/ai_n12741733

Science of Love - Cupid's Chemistry:

There are, in fact, three distinct stages of love; each with
their own characteristic emotional profile and scientific explanation.

First is lust. Lust is driven by our sex hormones testosterone
and oestrogen. These hormones are what get us 'out on the pull'.
After lust comes attraction. This is the love-struck phase;
the time when we lose our appetite, can't sleep, and can't
concentrate. This is what we know as falling in love.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/clairemcloughlincolumn1.htm/

Answer 4

I would say it is harder to have passion..but it is do-able...

As long as you work through the varying stages in your relationships and try not to seek your own way most of the time, then love, even passion, can eventually fade in to friendships, thus saving heartbreak and continuing the relationship.

Answer 5

I have love and passion for my family, and have never experienced heartache until they have passed away. I have love for my children so far with no heartbreak; nor husband. So you can have one without the other, I'm sure, and never experience the heartbreak. (I hope) :) Here's another: My love and passion for God=no heartbreak.

Answer 6

In theory you should be able to but it is hard to accept some things.

Answer 7

Sure you can. And yes it's totally worth it.

Answer 8

yes ofcourse,but you should be sure of two things
*that it should be a two way love
*that it shoul be real love

Answer 9

Hell yes!!

Answer 10

i hope you can....