Love and need

Jul 28, 2009 16:05


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marvelahs July 29 2009, 10:03:30 UTC
This is the one that tripped me up, too...what do you think it means? Still mulling it over.

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sethisalive July 29 2009, 16:06:56 UTC
This is my take:

When your own needs are taken care of, when you're self-sufficient enough and strong enough to just love someone rather than project your own needs, needful insecurities, needs for affirmation and reaffirmation (because of jealousy, self-doubt, etc), even the very need to have someone to love: if you can reach that place, without those needs, then you can spend all of your energy just loving a person, rather than needing them. Needing tends to poison relationships. It can be nice, for a while, but over time the neediness is what brings it all downhill, at least from my experience/perspective. In an extreme case, you get "demolition lovers" ( http://www.elyrics.net/read/m/my-chemical-romance-lyrics/demolition-lovers-lyrics.html ), in which one can see an extreme of neediness and the destruction it can bring.

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marvelahs August 2 2009, 15:29:41 UTC
What an enlightened interpretation. Lots of truths to consider. How do you think the dynamic of wanting someone vs. needing someone plays into it? Is it a less developed sort of love altogether or does "need" redeem itself in this case?

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nyuanshin July 30 2009, 17:16:00 UTC
Word.

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