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Chapter 289 - Three Harsh Truths About Love[2]
The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us. These unrealistic expectations then sabotage the very relationsh.i.p.s we hold dear in the first place. Allow me to ill.u.s.trate:
1. Love does not equal compatibility. Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term. Love is an emotional process; compatibility is a logical process. And the two don't bleed into one another very well.
It's possible to fall in love with somebody who doesn't treat us well, who makes us feel worse about ourselves, who doesn't hold the same respect for us as we do for them, or who has such a dysfunctional life themselves that they threaten to bring us down with them.
It's possible to fall in love with somebody who has different ambitions or life goals that are contradictory to our own, who holds different philosophical beliefs or worldviews that clash with our own sense of reality.
It's possible to fall in love with somebody who sucks for us and our happiness.
That may sound paradoxical, but it's true.
When I think of all of the disastrous relationsh.i.p.s I've seen or people have emailed me about, many (or most) of them were entered into on the basis of emotion — they felt that "spark" and so they just dove in head first. Forget that he was a born-again Christian alcoholic and she was an acid-dropping bis.e.x.u.a.l necrophiliac. It just felt right.
And then six months later, when she's throwing his shit out onto the lawn and he's praying to Jesus twelve times a day for her salvation, they look around and wonder, "Gee, where did it go wrong?"
The truth is, it went wrong before it even began.
When dating and looking for a partner, you must use not only your heart, but your mind. Yes, you want to find someone who makes your heart flutter and your farts smell like cherry popsicles. But you also need to evaluate a person's values, how they treat themselves, how they treat those close to them, their ambitions and their worldviews in general. Because if you fall in love with someone who is incompatible with you…well, as the ski instructor from South Park once said, you're going to have a bad time.
1. Love does not equal compatibility. Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term. Love is an emotional process; compatibility is a logical process. And the two don't bleed into one another very well.
It's possible to fall in love with somebody who doesn't treat us well, who makes us feel worse about ourselves, who doesn't hold the same respect for us as we do for them, or who has such a dysfunctional life themselves that they threaten to bring us down with them.
It's possible to fall in love with somebody who has different ambitions or life goals that are contradictory to our own, who holds different philosophical beliefs or worldviews that clash with our own sense of reality.
It's possible to fall in love with somebody who sucks for us and our happiness.
That may sound paradoxical, but it's true.
When I think of all of the disastrous relationsh.i.p.s I've seen or people have emailed me about, many (or most) of them were entered into on the basis of emotion — they felt that "spark" and so they just dove in head first. Forget that he was a born-again Christian alcoholic and she was an acid-dropping bis.e.x.u.a.l necrophiliac. It just felt right.
And then six months later, when she's throwing his shit out onto the lawn and he's praying to Jesus twelve times a day for her salvation, they look around and wonder, "Gee, where did it go wrong?"
The truth is, it went wrong before it even began.
When dating and looking for a partner, you must use not only your heart, but your mind. Yes, you want to find someone who makes your heart flutter and your farts smell like cherry popsicles. But you also need to evaluate a person's values, how they treat themselves, how they treat those close to them, their ambitions and their worldviews in general. Because if you fall in love with someone who is incompatible with you…well, as the ski instructor from South Park once said, you're going to have a bad time.
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