... of the bond alters. What was once passion becomes comfort; the giddiness pulls back to more reserved emotions. In the latter, the death of love, the bond is broken. This can result from the strains of time -- the bond weakens due to strong differences or dissolves as the lovers ... initial state of being, that is, the love dissipates. This is not always true, however. After an event traumatic to love, there is always a possibility of strengthening it again, if both parties are willing. If a love solidified past the initial stages but is lost, it does not completely disappear. A person ...

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... their mate, but may cause an accident in their rush because they were eager to embrace the feeling of love from their partner. Nevertheless, sometimes the feeling we receive from love may be just illusionary. False love is quite common as many normally feel that they have reached a bond with an individual, but in ... reality the bond is only felt when they are together. If one falsely believes they are in love, then they are only distancing themselves from real love. Real love consists of a very strong emotional bond of two individuals. The bond is formed over a period of time, and is fi...

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... Frankl about how he survived cruel treatment in Nazi concentration camps only by thinking about his wife. This kind of delusional love experienced by Frankl is somewhat different from the real, everyday love that couples share. Both of these situations have their benefits as well as their disadvantages. This essay will go further into ... cared about. Frankl did not know whether or not his wife was still alive, nor did this affect the strength of love that he had for his wife. This is because "love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in h...

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... most boundless and unwearied in giving," as expressed by Lewis. (p. 8) The gift of love is a single sided action that is given just as God gives his love to his people without the intent of a returning action. Need-love is based on the fact that in reality people do need one another and it is ... be alone. Lewis explains, "We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves." (p. 2) Need-love however should not be confused with selfishness because a frightened child who runs to the arms of his mother for comfort is not committin...

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... to form a perfect, but unattainable, union. Rilke explains that impatience is a cause for a bad relationship. He says, " But young people who love each other fling themselves with the impatience and haste of their passion." The two people do not truly know or respect each other. Instead they rush into ... out of all this disorder." Yet the two people for sake of a relationship hold on to that single physical attraction, what they thought was love. Finally a third cause for a young people's mistake in their relationships is the social context which says that people are not happy when the...

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... Accents Meghan Ross In the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez, we learn about how four girls grow up: moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. The main character is one of the sisters, ... ...

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... their best friend could receive it through quality time. Every one is different and that is what makes love so unique. Words of affirmation are a very common way to show love to someone. This type of love is shown on a sports field, in a classroom, or virtually in any setting. Verbal compliments, or ... words of appreciation, are powerful communicators of love. When one is expressing love through words of affirmation one should remember to stick straight to the point and to be clear and straightforward. Looking back upon ... and giving full attention to the other person. Giving of gif...

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... common in some ways and also have their differences. 1Sometimes with one I love I fill myself with rage for fear I 2effuse unreturn'd love, 3But now I think there is no unreturn'd love, the pay is 4certain one way or another, 5(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was not 6return'd, 7Yet out of that I have written these songs.) ... 1This line of the poem is trying to tell people that love doesn't always bring love and happiness but it can also bring fear in people that they could have between the both of them. 2The main and ... fourth point of this line of the poem is he/she ha...

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... who possesses the same characteristics and values that the person has affixed to the supposed "beloved-. Moreover, Snow Goose has showed me that one does not love a person because of what he/she can get out of the relationship but rather it is what one can give and offer to the other. As ... exemplified by Frith in the story, she still chose to love Rhayader despite his incongruous appearance. In spite the fact that there was nothing physically loveable about him, Frith was able to see through his goodness. And ... nearly nothing she would gain out of her visits to the grotesque looking...

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... The only jeopardy to this friendship would be betrayal of these secrets. When a person states that he/she is "in love," he/she is referring to the ultimate love: romantic love (Eros). This love is an intensely emotional state and a confusion of feelings: tenderness and sexuality, elation and pain, anxiety and relief, concerns ... and cling to his wife and they become one flesh." (Gen. 2: 24). There are several tell-tale body signs, to identify persons in-love. People who love each other tend to spend a great deal of time gazing into each other's eyes, touching each other, tend to stand ...

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... and ideas of what lovers do are greatly degrading over the years, the downfall of love is roughly at hand. Most people back then believe that love is the only thing that is significant in a boy-girl relationship. Now, people deem that love is not the only thing that matters. Several other things come into mind of most people ... a good personality. Most people nowadays judge the person by his/her physical looks before considering having him/her as a partner. People of the older times just allow love to take place. It is only now that a person tries to manipulate someone he/she likes to...

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... sexuality is to strengthen this bond. Through many different techniques humans naturally select an individual to pair with. The different sexes have different reasons and or motivations for creating pairs. Love being created through interaction and established through relational, social or psychological methods are a derivative to compromising ones reasons or motivations for creating a pair. This is a habit that we ... have developed over time. Love is a result of a natural match between ones love interest and their expectations therefore making it a chemical mechanism. Humans evolve be...

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The "Self-Expansion Theory of Love" is the theory that an individual has the capability to grow and develop as a result of the person with which they are involved in ... to incorporate aspects of other individuals to themselves. This concept can have a very noticeable outcome in a person's lifestyle. In retrospect to the Self-Expansion Theory of Love, some outcomes in relationships that occur can be negative and undetected or just ignored by individuals involved. This theory and contradictory is one that I have seen in ... confidants. When we entered high school and started entering the dati...

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In the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez, we learn about how four girls grow up: moving from the Dominican Republic to the United States. The main character is one of the sisters, ... ...

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... give you a taste. It should be available in any public library, so get a copy and read it. "The salvation of man is through love and in love." "What matters is not the meaning of life in general but the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. Everyone has his ... of the camp life, the starvation, the beatings, the severe cold and lack of sleep conspired to break the will of the prisoners. Some inmates lost the will to go on any further, while others kept their determination. Frankl attributes this determination to a person's ability to choose to either give up ... or to d...

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... Robert, the passion to get away from being a possession, and the depression that built up inside her, and. Throughout The Awakening, Edna's trouble with love, identity, and living up to society's expectations pushes her away from her life and what she loves. Therefore, it is Edna's willingness to sacrifice her ... her individuality that influences her to act decisively in the ultimate moments of emotional turmoil. Although Edna and Robert came closer and closer together, their love was a forbidden one therefore, it could not end up in anything but disaster. Edna and Robert met at the Gr...

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... taking cities by storm, and contestants winning hundreds of thousands of dollars on "reality- T.V. shows it's more than apparent that our society is deeply in love with our "wants-. Everyone has them, but it seems as though in American today those wants are never ending. To have the perfect job, the perfect ... re committed you must bring your partner along with you. They are forever at your side. This isn't a bad thing, but all of a sudden you've lost all identity as an individual. You are no longer just a single individual, but part of a duo. After having been engaged to my wife for a s...

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... the comunist program of the rulers. They view him as evil, and he does not wish to change his beliefs or resist individualism. He dares to love Liberty, to take a new name of Prometheus he has chosen, to invent something alone like the electricity to make the lamp, and, worst of all ... defy the conventional wisdom today are not treated with respect. Modern culture has focused on compassion and charity as the ultimate expressions of mankind's love, but it has failed to acknowledge that self-love is one of the primary aspects of freedom and self-governance. "The word 'We' . . . must never...

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... faith. "Hope" because unlike many of us, Forrest's mother, Mrs. Gump never lost hope that someday, his son would make her the proudest mother of all and he did. "Love" because like each and every one of us, Forrest experienced how good it feels to love someone. He fell in love with his childhood friend, Jenny Curran. Even if things did not come out ... the way he expects them to in the beginning, they still ended up together for Forrest is a good man, and he deserves to be given love in return. And "Faith" because unlike many of us ... , Forrest never lost faith in himself, and in God. ...

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... you get emotional over something tiny and feel as if your heart is about to explode for your significant other, then that leads to love. You become protective and overly sensitive about your relationship. You tend to want that person around forever. Infatuation, on the other hand, is ... need rather than emotional. Every individual has his/her perception towards love. The statement, "It is better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all", I personally disagree with. I can honestly say that I have found the love of my life and I cannot imagine one day in the future ... wit...

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... views in life emerged when they were faced with the task of raising children. This summer they ultimately decided that they had fallen out of love and were no longer able to cooperate as partners, lovers, or parents. This year was the first Thanksgiving that my father was not present ... own schedules and their own problems and they see such a resolution as a lost cause an idealized fantasy. Where will I find the support I need to continue my emotional, social, and personal development? From my resilient and deep-seeded love with each individual member of my family. It has become clear...

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... of mere adequacy when he rejects his own capabilities. The human mind is deficient in its inability to act without love; a lack of love causes man to lose interest in life. When one is without love they have no motivation to live life to the fullest. Mohandas Gandhi said: "Where there is ... Man will project the deficiencies of the relationship onto himself; this takes a great toll on his self-respect. Man cannot function well without love - especially if he has loved and lost. Man will often surrenders his individuality for the comforts of the herd. Man's desire to be a part of a group r...

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... not share the same reasoning behind their aspirations for independence, they do share the goal. The two of them are also troubled with love and relationships, Edna with Robert and Hester with Arthur. Moreover both women are flooded with emotions and instead of keeping it inside and controlling ... beautiful and elegant women and Edna is "handsome" in a manly way. In addition Hester is dreaming of independence in hope for love and Edna is leaving love in hope for independence. Furthermore, Hester is very giving and charitable and loves her child incredibly, although Edna is selfish and o...

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... mind were not meant to see. And some of these events drove individuals insane in that their minds could comprehend what was going on. Elizer has also lost all innocence through his experiences, in that as soon as he arrived at the death camp he had to immediately stop acting like a helpless child and ... the ways of the lord and following the ways of the lord. But through his experience in the concentration camps, Elizer lost believe that God even and existed. His believes were lost in that his mind couldn't comprehend the horror of it all. And maybe it was that Elizer didn't want to be...

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... Dostoevsky completely captures the emotional essence of his character. Merejkowski implies that all of Dostoevsky's heroes are "God-tortured." Raskolnikov denies his love for God and suffers throughout most of the novel. "Denial and affirmation of God" will not only lead to moral corruption but emotional ... the Lord and indicates his passion for Him that he becomes cured emotionally. The only way to succeed in mental rehabilitation is through spiritual love of God, Doestoevsky theorizes. Dostoevsky is able to create complex, well-developed characters by examining the aspects and qualit...

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