The Thing Called Love

Today my topic is love. Love...a word that has gained many meanings over time yet, many people still claim to be in the same "Love" as their partner. What is Love really? an emotion that bonds people together forever? a feeling that makes us want to be with one person for the rest of our lives? is it even something that can be described in such a simple way? well to answer the question of what "Love" is i think you just need to ask yourself what you think it is. For example you're dating someone for a few years and you get bored of the same old same old and break up, but in the course of that year you began to feel what you would call "Love" for that person. Was it actually not "Love" that you felt for the person or is "Love" a fading emotion that comes and goes like a tide on the beach. It's up to you to decide. Anyways moving on to "Love" as it applys itself in the modern day.
In the US, in 2005 there were 7.5 new marriages per 1,000 people, and 3.6 divorces per 1,000, a ratio which has existed for many individual years since the 1960s.[1] As many statisticians have pointed out, it is very hard to count the divorce rate, since it is hard to determine if a couple who divorce and get back together in that same year should be considered a divorce, so there is in fact no predictive relationship between the two annual totals. Nonetheless, the claim that "half of all marriages end in divorce" became widely accepted in the US in the 1970s, on the basis of this statistic, and has remained conventional wisdom. Pollster Lewis Harris in his 1987 book "Inside America" wrote that "the idea that half of American marriages are doomed is one of the most specious pieces of statistical nonsense ever perpetuated in modern times."

As it says above nearly half of the marriages out of 1000 people ended in divorce. Is it a sign that "Love" is getting harder and harder for people to find, i kinda think so. I'm at home alot so I watch alot of T.V in the mornings i'm sure you people at home in the day time have flipped through and seen a talk show where men/women who claim to "Love" the person they were with must confess that they have infact cheated/have been cheating alot, and i ask myself... if you truly loved a person as much as you claim to then why would you go with another person knowing full well that it could put the relationship in danger. Which brings me to where i started off at, "Love" doesn't have just one meaning but what it means to me is a feeling that will never fade with time as long as your with the person you claim to love, it means that you won't do anything that you wouldn't want your partner to do in your situation, it means taking responsibility where you have done wrong and learning to correct yourself and grow for the person you love, it means giving forgiveness to the one you love that has done wrong in certain situations(I can forgive something the first time but after the second time I expect that the person knew what they were doing) in short I believe that "Love" should be the strongest emotion you have for a person and you are made better because you love someone. But i feel that seince people are socializing more these days and entering more relationships they often confuse what they feel for a person as "Love" thus they repeat the cycle of:"Single>friends>like>date>"Love">get bored>break up>Single" after a series of trips in cycle i believe one begins to get the sense that there is no one out there for them and that "Love" doesn't exist. When i compare myself to those people i see that i never was in that cycle and i never want to be because when you enter that cycle i think you begin to take people and relationships for granted in a way. Well iono just my opinion thanx for reading.