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There are several different levels of love. You can love your family, which I do immensly. There is nothing I wouldn't do to protect them, to help them in time of need, to support and be there always. This is unconditional love. No matter what, I will never fall out of love with my family.
Then, there is love for an SO. I have only been in this type of love once....recently. I heart was broken in the aftermath.......I have been so careful to open up myself totally and completely to a woman. But, I did for her because the heavy feeling I had in my heart, the lump in my throat, the raised hair on my arms, the thought of her being the first woman I wanted to have children with....I defined this as being in love, not the same lust I had felt for many women before.....
The following song describes the way I think quite well. I heard it many moons ago and it has stuck with me.
Eurythmics Love Is A Stranger lyrics:
Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away...
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so it's an obsession
Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still can't
Get enough of the stuff
It's savage and it's cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so it's an obsession
It's guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
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Doh!!!!
-Homer Simpson
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