True Love ...Does it exist??
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Yes. But you have to love yourself enough first to recognize when someone is offering it to you.0
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I think so. I think it's just different to each person. First, it's about loving yourself only then can you really give all of yourself to someone and if it's right they'll love and accept every part of you. I think it's hard work. I also think it's finding the person who puts your happiness before their own and vice versa.
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It could only exist where both parties had completely unconditional love, but humans always want something out of another person, it's never unconditional
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This! Unconditional love, even for one's kids doenBut I think you can have a pretty good facsimile sometimes .. disclaimer here - divorced twice and in third long term relationship, and this one doesn't want to get married - probably with good reason! Although he says I am his true love ... who knows!? People change, their needs and wants are fluid and even though he thinks I am his true love now, what's not to say that someone better suited to him might not come along later? Hopefully not but still...0 -
I, too, am a divorcee. It's a really hard thing to go through, but please trust that being with the wrong person is so much worse than being with no one at all.
It's been 6 years since my divorce. I am happier now than I ever been, and YES, I completely believe in true love. I've found it. I thought I had been in love before, but it was nothing compared to what I've got now. You will absolutely know it when you've found it. You will be better, happier, and feel so much hope about your future. Losing dreams to a bad relationship is painful and awful, but the happiness you can achieve is worth the heartache.
I wish you luck, and feel free to friend me if you need some support.
You give me hope. Thanks for sharing your story.0 -
Yes, I do! I met my true love 11 months ago, and it has been amazing the whole time. I see nothing but wonderfulness ahead for us.0
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I think it does, but that there are different kinds. For example, I have a dear friend that I have known for 25 years, both of us at times have referred to the other as a soul mate, it was a deep and unabiding love we had for each other, but there was no romantic part to it. It is hard to explain, but we are two totally different people but we connect in a very unique way and for one of the only times in my life, I would rather be her friend in love then something else. I'm currently going through a divorce, it was one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it was the right thing at the right time. I am learning who I am without the "us" factor. It is a new experience. Just in the last week my eyes have been opened past all the loneliness to see that I have a future with or without someone to love, but one in which I have made a wonderful new friend on here. But I do think that love is out there. So yes, call me a hopeless romantic, I do believe in true love, but it has to evolve with both of you. You cannot keep the same relationship for years, grow together, or grow apart.
And that's all I have to say about that, lol!
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You've just never loved.No. It does not.
Like I just said,
Love is love and when it's real, it's true. Regardless.
Not true. I have, but it wasn't mutual, in the end. I realized that it's all bull****. The other person never thinks and feels the way you think they do. You, when you're in "love", think that it's all good. There's a reason why they call it "falling".0 -
Yes it does, BUT! you and your significant other have to work very hard and constantly for it.....always.0
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yes it does. 21 years this august. dont give up hope. there is someone out there for you. everything happens for a reason.0
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bump for later reading of the happiness! (I hope)0
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True and lasting love... Absolutely!
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me and wife, we been through hell and back again. with out her i would be nothing, so yes true love exists0
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Yes, it exists.
When a relationship is going well, life is amazing. When it is not going well, life can be rather difficult.0 -
I think it does exist but not everyone, myself included, is lucky enough to find "the one" and then they settle.0
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I'd like to believe so.0
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I'd rather be alone than settle...0
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You have to love yourself first.
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^ Diddo!0
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Yes, but I think it is hard work. It isn't like a fairytale...it isn't magical. Love and relationships are hard work. There will be hard times, you will hurt one another, but you must work together to get through it. Be supportive, trusting, and have communication with one another.
I personally feel that if you find someone that is your bestfriend and will be there for you through thick and thin, then that is true love. It goes past the physical attraction and the $exual part of the relationship...it is so much more.
^^^You took the words right out of my mouth.0 -
Yes it does! I married my best friend September 24, 2011 and, granted it's still a young love, I could not imagine my life without him. Even despite his crazy mom who has already tried to create problems for us, he's the best thing that has ever happened to me!0
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Just looking for opinions here (I am not looking for an argument or anything), but do you think "true love" exists or just a fairytale??
Definitely it does exist.
Sorry about what you're going through.... hopefully in the long run it makes you a stronger person. ((hugs))0 -
True love as in one person/soulmate type deal? Then no, I don't think it does. But in a more generic love that lasts way, yeah I hope so! 0
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yes.0
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Hope so...evidently my x was not my soul mate.0
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First, you have to live & learn to never make someone your entire life when you are just an option in theirs. I do think that there is that one person out there for everyone; It's not a fairytale though!
True love exists, you've just got to find that one person ♥ 0 -
Absotively posollutely0
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I'd like to still believe so.
But so far...ehhh....not so much.0 -
bump0
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<~~his true love has been his true love for over 27 years. Timing has kept us apart for most of the last 25 years! Sad :sad:0
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I agree completely.. I have been divorced.. that marriage was horrible , the guy was a nightmare.. it was heartbreaking when the marriage ended even though I wanted out! The best decision i ever made to leave him.. Yes true love does exist with the right person.. give yourself time to grieve and to heal.. I have been with my now husband for 13 years and am still head over heels in love with him.. there is great life after divorce!I, too, am a divorcee. It's a really hard thing to go through, but please trust that being with the wrong person is so much worse than being with no one at all.
It's been 6 years since my divorce. I am happier now than I ever been, and YES, I completely believe in true love. I've found it. I thought I had been in love before, but it was nothing compared to what I've got now. You will absolutely know it when you've found it. You will be better, happier, and feel so much hope about your future. Losing dreams to a bad relationship is painful and awful, but the happiness you can achieve is worth the heartache.
I wish you luck, and feel free to friend me if you need some support.0
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