Meant to Be...

[labyrinthos]

I never thought I would become bitter and jaded about love.  And I'm still not, not really.  But I've definitely become more hesitant and reluctant to pursue it.

I remember in my youth how I would fall in love.  How it would be this all encompassing obsession, rife with romance and imaginings and poetry.  How I could so fully believe and embrace

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[roaming]

lots to say on this -- later. Right now, before it gets dark, forcing myself out the door for the one-hour-per-day walk I've promised I will do to get my pre-diabetes in check.

P.S. Bottom line = you can have both. . . but it doesn't tend to look like what one expected or was looking for when younger. You have a list of must-haves, non-negotiables. . . and then someone comes along and you tear up that old list and rewrite a new one to fit that person.

How do you know? I don't know, I just know you do. Can you be wrong? Sure. There's a fine line of "feeling secure" and "anything can happen in life." And no one size fits all.

Me, I now find "comfort" -- in all the myriad definitions of that word -- to be my idea of romance, far more than candllelit hormones dozens of roses champagne chocolates thongs and sweaty sexual gymnastics.

[snowyshastina]

You know, it's funny how when you meet the right person, all that stuff comes back - the joy, the sadness, the obsession and the complete ecstasy. If a relationship isn't giving you that, then the relationship ain't worth having. Cos love is terrifying and it's also the most amazing feeling that you can possibly have.