I didn't realize that you and Marco were planning to keep the relationship going next year. Long distance is hard, but definitely manageable if you want it enough. I have a similar conversation about love with myself (and my Quiznos co-workers, which is strange) all the time. I consider myself to be in love, but at the same time I don't think I TRULY believe in it. It's just a word people use to define their emotional dependency on someone else--it's pathetic! I really wish I could be more biological about it all. I wish I could just do the fun part of love without depending on someone so much that I end up feeling like COMPLETE SHIT if something goes wrong. But in my experience, love without the emotional dependency (which is what makes it "love" to most people, right?) just ends up making me feel incredibly lonely. And you know how I am...I'm fascinated by love/couples/sex. But when I step back it all just seems ridiculous and pointless. It is all pathetic and doesn't deserve the attention I give it.
Hey, thanks for the constructive thoughts- I wasn't sure if anyone would respond to this-- it's the romanticism of the emotional dependency, I think, that irritates me, and at the same time I'm a bit of a romantic myself.
I wish I were better at expressing myself in writing. Love for me is a much broader thing with many facets and where and how Romantic Love fits in there for me has always been a bit of a puzzle
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I have a similar conversation about love with myself (and my Quiznos co-workers, which is strange) all the time. I consider myself to be in love, but at the same time I don't think I TRULY believe in it. It's just a word people use to define their emotional dependency on someone else--it's pathetic! I really wish I could be more biological about it all. I wish I could just do the fun part of love without depending on someone so much that I end up feeling like COMPLETE SHIT if something goes wrong. But in my experience, love without the emotional dependency (which is what makes it "love" to most people, right?) just ends up making me feel incredibly lonely.
And you know how I am...I'm fascinated by love/couples/sex. But when I step back it all just seems ridiculous and pointless. It is all pathetic and doesn't deserve the attention I give it.
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