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A Guide To Love And Relationships

A Look At The Dynamics Of Love & Relationships In The Modern World

Sources Interrupting Love and Relationships

Evils contained by marriages over and over again are created from outside interferences. For instance, civilization, political groups, teaching, and religion all labor collectively to propel the marriage agreement, sending it into confusion and chaos. Relations at present have lost view of traditional teachings and the definition of love. Many relationships in the present day make use of sex, using it as an instrument work through the relationship, or else to control the arrangement.

Love and relationships at present often turn out to be a short-lived business rather than a lasting promise between two mutual individuals.  Scores of tools to breakdown marriages in the present day are developed, thus any reason is enough to say I am leaving you. Kin members, acquaintances, and other outside sources are swift to persuade split-up, rather than enforcing the two to work out their problems. Influences are manipulated skills that people use to either harm or help others.  

Thus, the foundation for a building a good marriage, or else love and relationship is learning to build on solid grounds. Scores of folks think that sexuality previous to marriage gets rid of doubts. People join in sexual relations before committing sometimes to see if the person is capable of satisfying the partner’s needs.

Thus, the sources of interruption should be weeded through, since if you love someone no force will tear the relationship down. True love will battle if outside forces move in attempting to destroy the relationship.

Associates often move in on relationships, thus tearing down the arrangement. Men and women alike have destroyed relationships throughout the years by encouraging one partner to join them in activities that depict a lack of respect for a relationship. Thus, friends encouraging a true love to join in a gather at a strip joint will clearly state, I love my mate, talk later.

Family members have destroyed love and relationships. When a family member does not accept the mate, they may go to lengths to convince the partner that love does not exist in the relationship. Thus, true love will tell the family members to mind their own business and let me handle my own love and relationship. Of course, if family members have the best of intentions for the partner in mind, thus possibly seeing habits and behaviors that are disturbing and the partner is not seeing these traits, thus consideration is essential.

Family is a form of relationship. Thus, true love exists when families allow their children room to live their own life. True love is evident when families, friends, and mates work productively together to make the relationship last.

Women, men, children, family members, friends, and other influences of the world have their lot in life and should be placed appropriately in their place when working to maintain love and produce a long-lasting relationship.

Thus, true love will never step over its boundaries. Therefore, politicians are not your friends. Some religions are not your friends, and definitely, other influences that work to destroy relationships are not your friends.

People out for their own interest lack the mechanisms that makes love grow. Thus, self-interest often includes lust, desire, hate, envy, deceit, lies, disrespect, and other harmful ingredients that makeup the person’s true identity. The identity may not expose itself now, but as time goes by, the person will show his true colors, unless he sees his mistakes along the path of life and changes his course.

On the other hand, true love is found when people butt out, and give you advise that will only work to help you, rather than cause you harm. True advice is defined as evidence, facts, trails of productivity, experience, wisdom, intelligence et cetera. If a person provides you advice, can this person back up his/her statements, recommendations, words, et cetera? If not then you might want to carefully weigh out the advice to see which direction you need to go while thanking the person for the advice as you trail off into analysis, debate, thought, et cetera.

Now we can review the extracts from love and relationships.

Love and Relationships - Romantic Love

Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from mere needs driven by sexual desire, or lust. Romantic love generally involves a mix of emotional and sexual desire, as opposed to Platonic love. There is often, initially, more emphasis on the emotions than on physical pleasure.

Romantic love can be returned or unrequited. In the former case, the mutual expressions of love can lead to marriage or to the establishment of a permanent relationship, which in most cases will include passionate sexual love. Where the love is one-sided (unrequited), the result can be damage to the esteem and/or the psychological welfare of the spurned lover.

One aspect of romantic love is the randomness of the encounters which lead to love. It may be for this reason that some in Western society have historically emphasized romantic love far more than other cultures in which arranged marriages are the rule. However, the globalization of Western culture has spread Western ideas about love and romance.

Romantic love became a recognized passion in the Middle Ages, when in some cases insurmountable barriers of morality or convention separated the lovers. The effect of physical attraction and impossibility of intimacy resulted in an excessive regard of the beloved as extremely precious. Winning the love, or at least the attention, of the beloved, motivated great efforts of many kinds, such as poetry, song or feats of arms.

In more modern times romantic love has been the theme of art and entertainment in all its forms. Some of the greatest poetry (e.g. Shakespeare's sonnets), opera (e.g. La Boheme), and literature (e.g. Pride and Prejudice) have romantic love as the main theme. Similarly much of more popular culture from theatre to film to popular music has romantic love at its heart. However, it has not been without its critics. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch one of the few English novels for "grown up people" given its pessimistic portrayal of marriage.

Properties of romantic love purported by Western culture that might or might not appear elsewhere include:

  • It must take you by surprise (the result of a random encounter).
  • It cannot be easily controlled.
  • It is not overtly (initially at least) predicated on a desire for sex as a physical act.
  • If requited it may be the basis for a lifelong commitment.

Source: Wikipedia


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