Re: Does pure unadulterated love exist between man and woman? JNA: [quote author=Fjord Girl link=topic=31561.msg315719#msg315719 date=1152931321">
The problem is that relationships have become disposable and I blame modern society where everything that's broken doesn't deserve to be fixed, but thrown away and replaced. People give up to easily, people are always looking for a benefit.
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There ya go...
Yup...
JNA
Re: Does pure unadulterated love exist between man and woman? ezydriver: [quote author=fjord girl"> It just doesn't happen anymore.[/quote">
Why not though? why doesn't it?
I'm one of those old fashioned romantics. I suppose the way the media has portrayed this kind of man appealed to me. Trying to find a woman who recognises this and appreciates it is nigh on impossible. Everybody seems non empathetic. Everybody seems quick to fall out with you. Everybody seems to be against you. Every couple seem miserable. I hear no end arguing in the street. Talking to one another like they're pieces if shit.
Re: Does pure unadulterated love exist between man and woman? Roseville: ezydriver,
In my opinion, life in the last few decades has made the "true, unadulterated love - unconditional and unending" almost a thing of the past. This makes me so sad, but with the divorce rate being at 50+% and only rising, it's hard to believe sometimes that it is still out there. When I look at all of my grandparents and great-grandparents - they had that kind of love. They had the devotion to stay together, come what may. They had the love that lived on thru their young lives, children, grandchildren, many memories and eventually the death of one of the partners. It's so different from what we see today. When you see these little old men and women walking into a store together and they're helping each other walk, and the man is holding the door open for the lady....
My own parents have been married since the age of 16, and have been married for 30 years. They are the generation when things in terms of marriages really seemed to change. Please don't kill me here for my opinions on this subject, but I really feel like the marriages really began to take a hit when many of the women left the homes and entered the workplace. No longer was it important to have the family together for dinner, to take family vacations, to crawl into bed with your husband/wife at night - now it's tv's, tivo, cell phones, computers, blackberrys.....so many things that draw us away from the home and marriages that our grandparents and great-grandparents held so dear.
I know that we all have to do what we have to do to make our lives work and to pay the bills today, but the last couple of generations, as well as the ones yet to come, have paid dearly for it - in many ways.
JMO,
J
Re: Does pure unadulterated love exist between man and woman? Fjord Girl: Because of what I said: Relationships have become something to trade, something to get a benefit from. Just like a TV. I know, bad example, but that's what I meant about being disposable. It doesn't work, you buy a new one and the problem is fixed.
Re: Does pure unadulterated love exist between man and woman? ezydriver: [quote author=jlw8296 link=topic=31561.msg315723#msg315723 date=1152931965">
In my opinion, life in the last few decades has made the "true, unadulterated love - unconditional and unending" almost a thing of the past. This makes me so sad, but with the divorce rate being at 50+% and only rising, it's hard to believe sometimes that it is still out there. When I look at all of my grandparents and great-grandparents - they had that kind of love. They had the devotion to stay together, come what may. They had the love that lived on thru their young lives, children, grandchildren, many memories and eventually the death of one of the partners. It's so different from what we see today. When you see these little old men and women walking into a store together and they're helping each other walk, and the man is holding the door open for the lady....
My own parents have been married since the age of 16, and have been married for 30 years. They are the generation when things in terms of marriages really seemed to change. Please don't kill me here for my opinions on this subject, but I really feel like the marriages really began to take a hit when many of the women left the homes and entered the workplace. No longer was it important to have the family together for dinner, to take family vacations, to crawl into bed with your husband/wife at night - now it's tv's, tivo, cell phones, computers, blackberrys.....so many things that draw us away from the home and marriages that our grandparents and great-grandparents held so dear.
I know that we all have to do what we have to do to make our lives work and to pay the bills today, but the last couple of generations, as well as the ones yet to come, have paid dearly for it - in many ways.
JMO,
J
[/quote"> What a beautiful post. Almost brings a tear to my eye. I agree with the whole sentiment in this post. TV's, computers etc... Thing is, why aren't we as a society taking individual steps to maybe curb these things? It seems everybody follows the social order. The new. The next. If we maybe looked back at our past generations to see how they did it and perhaps tried to resurrect some of their morals and outlook then surely things would be different. I dont know. I've had a drink tonight, lol, and i'm in a philisophical mood.
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