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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Wow. Relationship Fallacy #1: Love Conquers All
Absolutely false. COMMUNICATION conquers all. Love without communication will never work. That's because different people express love differently. They also express other feelings differently.
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I think that the word "love" is tossed around too easily, and too much. Too often, it's used to describe even the most tenuous of emotional ties, just because one feels like they love the other person.
My definition of "love" is real love, not just any love- and real love includes, by default: communication, honesty, respect, constancy...
How can one use the word love, without fully defining the characteristics that govern it's use? I think that using the word love, without fully encompasing at the very least the items mentioned above, is the fallacy.
If I'm a hopeless romantic (which I know I am, but that has nothing to do with the word love in this thread), then in what weak ways do you define the word love, for it to be so shallow and listless a term? If true love doesn't include the very fundamental dedications I listed above... is that actually love? And if you think it is, why take a word whose meaning is so powerful that it already transcends any real definition, and water it down to mean almost any emotional connection?
Real love is not just any regular emotional connection. That's infatuation. Real love is perfect. It IS all you need.