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Love is a Mental Illness. Discuss.

Saturday, 6 October 2018, 0:30 MJA Uncategorized 32

 

Why modern relationships are screwed.

32 Comments on Love is a Mental Illness. Discuss.

  3. I wish my marriage had turned out like that of Apollo and Daphne with my ex wife getting turned into a tree. It would have made chopping her up and burning her remains in the wood stove much easier.

    But I’m not bitter.

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  5. PJW is spot on – I’ve never done anything in my life as crazy as the things I’ve done when I was in the throes of romantic love. Won’t get into the details here, but it was insane. I never seemed to learn, either. Anyone who doesn’t understand it has never really experienced it, IMHO.

    P.S. – My first wife, whom I divorced in 1975, died a couple of years ago. If I had known it was going to be so long before it would take effect, I could have saved my breath on all those prayers I sent up way back then.

    😉

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  6. A fundamental reality that few will accept is that most women are incapable of actual love. They mistake hormone driven fluctuations
    for an altruistic emotion. Women are capable of ‘loving’ their children but this is due to the MASSIVE hormonal assault they endure during the process topped off by massive amounts of oxytocin bathing the brain just as the infant arrives on the scene. And even then this doesn’t always work as women still commit infanticide with regularity. And men are not immune either…..huge numbers of men….usually younger ones invariably mistake lust for love.

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  14. It is a great feeling to be blessed with a beautiful wife, love, and a lasting marriage. Some of us are lucky. Add on in-laws that are like a second set of parents and you realize how lucky you are. If I had a lot of money it would be too good to be true. Im not bragging, just thankful.

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  15. Ever been so desperate for love you mistake a man for a woman and bone it? Yeah. Me neither. 🤢 🤢 🤢 🤮

    By the way. Christians in long-term relationships have the best sex. How do I know? I’m one of ’em. Eat your heart out Paul Joseph Watson! 😇

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  16. I was extremely fortunate to have met my wife when we were both young. We were completely opposite, she was Peppermint Patty to my Charlie Brown. She was a tom boy and very athletic and outgoing and I am quiet and shy and a bookworm but we managed to make it work for nearly 36 years until she died from leukemia almost 6 years ago. It also helped we were both Christian and met in church in 1976. There were also a lot of other connections, I went to Kindergarten in 1958 in the basement of the house that she eventually grew up in, and when we moved back to Spokane from Ephrata, Wa. in 1964 her family lived up the street from us, my youngest brother and one of her brothers played together as kids till they moved a yr. later into the house where I went to kindergarten. She was amazed when I told her that when I first visited her house that I had been there before. It also helped that my mother and father in law were almost second parents to me and the same with my parents with her. In fact it was her mother who told her to marry me because she wasn’t going to find anyone else like me and she agreed. All in all we had a good long term marriage even with it’s ups and downs. And I have to agree with Jerry Manderin about the sex, holy smokes, it was good but not the be all and end all it was part of a good long lasting, trusting relationship. I miss her since she died and know that I will never find another woman like her ever again which is why I’ll probably be single the rest of my life.

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  18. Well. I hope that Paul Joseph is not in the middle of a mess.

    The intense romantic love will turn into Phase Two if you just hang onto the bed long enough. Phase Two can be pretty damn romantic, as well. (I always liked candles.)

    2 + 2 = 5 ….Lady in Red

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  19. @geoff and Mike Brown – I too was fortunate to meet my wife and marry young. We’ve had our ups and downs in the 48 yrs, but I truly can’t imagine what it would be like to not have her in my life. One thing that I learned at the git-go, if you don’t LIKE your partner, then the love feeling is just lust and you’ll go through what PJW is talking about.
    P.S. I still hold the door for my wife, walk on the street side beside her, and wait patiently (mostly) in the car while she does whatever she does to make us late. I do these things because I LIKE the person she is and I love her.

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  20. A relationship take two full adults having a mutual agreement for life, selfishness and neglect will end it in no time . I keep my faith and morals my ex keeps everything else we had .

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  22. Been there, done it, got the T-shirt. G_D Bless all of you who have made the connection; for those of you who have suffered the loss of a spouse, my heart is broken for you.

    My wife kicked me to the curb after six years; I suspect she thought she could “monkey branch” to a better situation. She couldn’t (though she tried) and now realizes her error. Pity that; she has made overtures, but sorry…she chose this.

    I satisfy the “three sixes” that females today demand. Sorry ladies; I will not allow a gal to inveigle me into a position of weakness like that again. It cost me a house the first time (we did not have kids) and I kept my pension and TDA.

    In my experience, women are all about themselves; they can maximize their security by divorce raping their husbands, and poisoning his kids against him.

    “Fool me once…”

    Take the red pill; MGTOW.

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  23. I envy those of you that have had lasting marriages. I expected that for myself from a very early age and worked very hard to make it so, but it wasn’t to be. Still, I’ve been blessed in so many other ways I can’t really complain.

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  24. I stand in awe, heart warmed, by testimonies, here, of long, blessed marriages. My sweetheart & I tied the knot my last year in high school. She immediately proceeded to follow me to every god-forsaken mil posting the Army enjoyed blessing us with. Lost her after 15yrs. Was hard coming out of that. But, she left me 6 wonderful children, each the apple of my eye. 8 grandchildren (and counting), each and every one the joy and delight of my heart. I too enjoyed the virtues of a Christian marriage. To this day, her folks remain part of ‘my’ family. She was a jewel..never found another to compare.
    TWD

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  25. He is right about today’s fevered search for love. He did admit that he was not talking about lasting meaningful relationships, but about the need for conquest.

    I gave up on having a lasting meaningful relationship in my mid 30s. After a decade of miserable mistakes, I gave up. I’ve now had a lifetime of family and friendships but I sometimes think that I missed something. I try not to think about it and value my independence, but I see the success of beautiful marriages around me and hearing of them from you; makes me wonder. I can’t change the past, so I shrug off the regret and go on with my life. I am blessed.

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  26. I think marriage can be successful if worked on by both sides. Here in Israel (and in the US Jewish Orthodox community), there is a cultural pressure to make it work, and although I’d never say its perfect, I see all around me beautiful marriages, including parents, grandparents, uncles, etc.

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  29. Married at 20 in 1979. Still married nearly 40 years later. We’ve been up and down and all around and we’d do it all again. 🙂 Lady in Red is right. Phase 2 and later can be just as good, if not better.

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