Helping singles to find each other is our aspired-to competency, helping couples to maintain their relationship is perhaps that of marriage counselors. Again, we are dating or courtship coaches only, and we are happy to excel at that one task. Still, we hope that couples get married, start a family, and tango forever. Romantic love (more…)
Really, are you free to love? “There is not a single law in any country or period that has ever controlled or condemned love as such. True love has always been free, and even more, it is the active principle of all human freedom. Love is freedom itself. The only real obstacles to love are (more…)
Don’t we all envy those obviously in love? Time and troubles seem to just melt away for lovers. Someone said that “love’s power is to unite in the face of loneliness and eternity, and in its optimism in the face of daunting odds.” Be aware, however, of those who love being in love, as they (more…)
At least in the beginning. It perhaps is true that people do not see the faults of the person that they just came to love. That is why we say that love is blind. When smites, the single may not be able to “see” clearly even if s/he wanted to! With that single falling in (more…)
Some love can lead to domestic violence. If it does, it perhaps wasn’t real love but likely romantic or erotic love, or perhaps unrequited or unbalanced love. What is romantic love? An inherently unstable love, experienced often in the early stages of the encounter between two people. The two want to be together, but they (more…)
When two singles encounter each other and fairly consider their prospects together as a loving couple, they surely will be thinking and talking about the meaning of love and life. A romantic lover may not, impulsive as he or she may be, before perhaps coming around to real love. A lot of people turn religious, (more…)
When 19th-century French poet Rimbaud famously said that love needs reinventing, he may have spoken a truism, but within a questionable context — in my opinion. Perhaps it is true that it isn’t just love that binds so many families and married couples. But it does not follow that love is not. Apparently, Rimbaud was (more…)
Needless to say, there have always been ‘movers and shakers’ in the world — great storytellers — and always will be. I know one of them, at least a bit: the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Being personally touched by most any saint or sage, any leader of some sort, that is any genius, thinker, (more…)