You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him and her the next? If your love has an opposite, then its not love but a strong ego need for a more complete and deeper sense of self???
2007-11-29 14:28:00 · 28 answers · asked by Rita 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
True love is unconditional and being so it has no opposite. It is simply love in its deepest sense.
2007-11-29 22:38:33 · answer #1 · answered by Rhythm of the Falling Rain 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love for a partner can be very deep, but not so true, it would be heaven!
You can love your partner and hate something she/he does, it's only misunderstanding, or other reasons...not nescessary a need for the ego...
On the other plan, Love has its opposite Hate. Everything has its opposite in life; it must be? There is a push/pull on all. Attraction vs aversion. Electricity (close to us) is an example, earth is the same way, so is the cosmos!
For all the reasons possible, the ego seems to be so hard to remove for some people...
2007-11-30 00:54:16 · answer #2 · answered by kayneriend 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't know about the second half, but I can work with the first question. And I just answered (elsewhere) that indifference is the opposite of love, but is it really? Indifference can be just that - an unconscious, unaware, perfectly benign state. Maybe indifference is the opposite of obsession.
I'm going to think about it some more, but true love may not have an opposite. Feelings & emotions, like taste and colors, are impossible to describe - one has to feel them. They're all part of a wheel, but it doesn't mean that what directly across from love is it's opposite - it's just another emotion.
Enough rambling... bye.
2007-11-30 00:56:26 · answer #3 · answered by Shades of Grey♥ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well as a person who has found true love for over thirty years I am something of an expert. Your question is a good one but it is not quite so cut and dried. You can truly love someone but be angry with them or hate something that they did.
Here is how it goes. If you are in a truly loving relationship, you can be sure that once you come to your senses after acting like a complete jackasss, there will still be someone there to apologize to.
True love does not mean there will never be conflict or nastiness. But the relationship and the commitment is so strong it can bend without breaking. I remember back in the seventies there was a movie that made this slogan popular,"Love is never having to say that you're sorry". That does not tell the whole story. Love does indeed mean you never have to say you are sorry, but you want to anyway.
Our love has not prevented us from ever hurting each other but it made us not want to.
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2007-11-30 00:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To love a person means to value a person. It does not mean to worship or to become subserviant to that person, or to lose one's identity. Romantic love has a strong component based on sensuousness and the pleasure two people give each other through the senses. Eventually, that component falls into its own measured perspective, and other emotional, intellectual and philosophical values gain back their natural status. If the values are different between two lovers, when they surface they will clash, inevitably.
Since love is an emotion, it can only appear strong if logical reasoning takes the back seat. But it is always a mistake to let our life be driven by love rather than logic. Logic does not exclude love. One must know how important some values are and how one expects them to fit them in with the other partner. Then love is fueled by reason, not hampered by it.
The more logical is the relationship, the fewer are the contradictions, and the conflicts. On that base, love can be very solid and it has no opposite.
2007-12-01 16:37:05 · answer #5 · answered by DrEvol 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends what you mean by opposite, the way I see it, it does, it's called fear. Again, I cannot explain what I mean(feel) by these two; Love and Fear. Like Morpheus said; unfortunately, nobody can tell you what The Matrix is, you have to see it for yourself. Then it gets better, how is it possible to keep these two together? Is there even a point to this? Could it be any other way? And more and more questions...Exciting huh!0!
Asking is obviously our choice, but whether there's an answer or not, whether it comes right on time or not, whether we like it or not....well, that's another question!
Good luck!
2007-11-30 09:22:02 · answer #6 · answered by Alex 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me start my answer by saying that love is love. If it is not true, then it is not love. With that in mind, I don't agree with the phrasing "true love." By saying true love, you assume a false love. Which could be the opposite of true love. :)
I see what you're getting at with your question. I do not think that the the scenario you have used to illustrate your point demonstrates an opposition. If you have difficulty expressing your feelings or with communicating, that does not necessarily mean that you have a strong ego. I think it could simply mean that you have never learned effective conflict resolution skills.
2007-11-29 22:54:09 · answer #7 · answered by Trina™ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I really agree with this one..You can love or be in love for years and years.. That love can just vaporize in front of you..Although still living together one partner has found a truer love. There is an opposite..Staying together going thru the emotions.. just excisting.. Trying to keep the love together. Love has a way sometimes not for the good of one or the other but sheltering each other for the good of the marriage.(I'm at true odds on this question. as in I am in the middle of this.)
2007-11-29 23:02:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hi Rena, The way i see it, there are too sides of loving a person. The genuine true way of loving that person, or totally disliking them with menace and hate. The only opposite to love is hate. A relationship in my case with a woman, i should except her for all her good qualities and any bad points too. And the same the other way around.There has to be a normal balance in a relationship, For it to work.
2007-11-30 06:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think sometimes if you love a person enough... when you've never felt as much love...your feelings can get hurt more easily. Sometimes saying a few bad things is just a person's way of defending themselves from being hurt. If they realize they said something they shouldn't, and apologize sincerely and you make up; the love can grow stronger.
People usually do those things out of instinct..if someone they've loved has done it to them, then they're more likely to react that way...
..Luckily, if they've had it happen to them, they usually remember how it felt, and know they were wrong to say those things.
2007-11-29 23:21:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure about the 'stong ego need' but I do agree that love has no opposite. Some would suggest that you need evil for love to exist and I don't agree with that.
2007-11-29 22:36:03 · answer #11 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋