Latinoman said:
I loved her. And quite honestly, I still care for her wellfare (but not to the point of "love" or even considering going back).
Think about this...why do men STAY in very bad marriages? Because of $$$.
If I didn't love...then I would have stayed and done whatever I wanted it. Heck, even get a job that required my stay away during the week and come home during the weekends. It would have been much cheaper that way as we all know a divorce tends to be expensive.
But I choose to do the right thing.
What I did is not much different to what women do OVER and OVER and OVER. It is just that society views it (when women does this) as acceptable. And they have problem comprehending it when a man does it.
Agreed they do.
But love can be translated many ways.
Love can mean you sacrificed some ideal to give some one a better life, though to what extend was it your choice to make?
Love is also perceived as a selfish trait, conditions have to be met for love to happen and for it to survive this is simple fact, if the person who you are in love with breaks some of your ideals too many times love soon fades, so love in this form can be seen as selfish.
There can be unconditional love, but this imo is mainly evident with strong family units.
My idea of love is no matter what you will ride it out together, an old romantic maybe, but this is my idea of true love, been washed over with it and being consumed by it, so the worldly problems and struggles seem second rate to keeping this love alive.
Sadly I have not found that and most probably never will, not in this society I don’t thing, it is far too disposable for that to exist, too many options making love watered down in its context. But even saying this I think you can experience it even if its simply for a day, with some one special.
For a wife a lover, I simply think the love was not as strong as you would probably have liked it to be.
There are some relationships, evident in the older generation where love as and companionship as been the only method and you can witness couples going through some major issues and still being together and when is all said and done, a lot of the older generating turn around and say ‘ I know what was important to me’. This sadly is not this generations ways for a lot of people. This to me is Love, the rest is simply the disposable variety.
But your not the only one.
Should we blame anyone, no it is evident we are all as bad as each other and is endemic.
Which ever who is to say one way is better then the other? it is clear we have more options now then our older generation did, maybe this is a factor also.
I am single and i enjoy it. just for the record.