A THOUGHT #1

At some stage in your life you think that you will continue to like the people you have always loved. Note the operative words in that sentence being LIKE and LOVE. I believe you can love someone but not particularly like them at times. Just when you think oh I love this person that should be enough, time and age comes and smack you in the face and say “Sorry love, it doesn’t always work like that”

My question is do we sometimes love out of obligation?  For example a love for a parent, some of us may not principally like them for what ever reason, could be their personality, the way you were treated or disciplined by that said parent. But ultimately you love them because they are your parents. Don’t get me wrong for some of us this may not apply, but I question myself over and over again “DO WE SOMETIMES LOVE OUT OF OBLIGATION”

Now I would never want to love a partner out of obligation, but I would also love to like my partner. Many of us have been in relationships where we are not happy with the person we are with. The relationship may have started off sweet, as a lot do, but when we start becoming relaxed, comfortable we then become truthful, our real personality comes seeping through and slowly but surely abracadabra out comes the real person You don’t really like, its not exactly conducive to the way you live but because you have invested so much into the relationship you feel obligated (here is that word again) to stay and stick through it.

So do we love out of obligation?

And does the obligation make the love redundant?

Peace&love