<p>^ are you referring to me?</p>
<p>i looovvee that songg <3 (even though im not a fan of lennon)</p>
<p>^^^ Uhhh. I didn’t say it isn’t something I didn’t wish for. I’m pretty sure everyone does. Just that, it’s more of a fantasy than something real.</p>
<p>So you don’t believe it exists, but still wish for it?</p>
<p>Yea, sure.</p>
<p>I think some people doubt it, but after a point of maturity you believe in it…</p>
<p>Then you get married, have kids and 10 years later, you’re like **** what did i do? </p>
<p>lmao im just joking(not saying it doesn’t happen, because it does) but it’s intrepreted differently based on your ethnicity, age, and many other factors</p>
<p>^haha, I read your first sentence, and I was like yay!</p>
<p>Then I read the second sentence, which was booo…</p>
<p>An interesting study a while ago actually showed that happiness levels were higher in arranged marriages. People eventually got happier when they had no other choice. Of course, this happiness was self - reported.</p>
<p>^ haha i was kidding, but its ignorance to believe that all love marraiges work out…but then we ask ourselves the question…were they ever in love if it didn’t work out?</p>
<p>^After all, my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished
Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?</p>
<p>“the chains of love are never as binding as when they are made of gold.”</p>
<p>Marry the richest person you can get. Marriage was first and foremost a financial institution where love is of irrelevance. Think Europe a few hundred years ago and arranged marriage still going on today in India, a good 1/6 of human population.</p>
<p>I could never go through an arranged marriage. I am such a hopeless romantic.</p>
<p>How long can love last, I mean, really last? You always see these relationships and they are like, “oh I love you so much” in the first month, then the next month they are on to new people.</p>
<p>I think people need to be really good friends with their partners if it will truly last. There needs to be a romantic love, the one that makes you happy and willing to stay with them forever. There also needs to be a biological attraction, because what’s love without some friskiness? </p>
<p>But there also needs to be a love of friendship. This needs to be a person you can go and talk to about ANYTHING. Not just a booty call or a date for Friday night.</p>
<p>@Millancad: You bring up a good point lol</p>
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<p>Anyways, I like rupee’s theory. You have to have several things for love to work out properly–romance+attraction+friendship+personality compatibility (although this can be compromised a little bit :P)</p>
<p>Love is the reason I put myself through torture and throw myself through hoops to see a girl that used to like me, but has since rejected me.</p>
<p>You can’t stop loving someone.</p>
<p>^ The current divorce rate proves otherwise, GoldenDomer. I think you can stop loving someone.</p>
<p>^but did they really marry for love.</p>
<p>Hollywood Celebrities essentially prove that most of what love is believed to be doesn’t exist. Most Hollywood Celebrities don’t even count as real people though. Love is knowing you’ve found the person that you KNOW you can spend the rest of your life with, not someone you know in your English Class who has pretty eyes. Give me a break.</p>
<p>What I never understood were those people who feel like they absolutely must be in a relationship (regardless of whether they actually love this person) or else they feel inadequate or poorly about themselves.</p>
<p>Awhile ago, I was watching that movie “He’s Just Not That Into You” (don’t ask why I was watching this…) and the women in it were absolutely pathetic and somehow made the connection between their own self-worth and finding a boyfriend.
Even though the above example is just a fictional movie, it seems that a lot of people actually do feel this way. One of the things that have always irritated me about a handful of my friends is that their number one priority is getting a guy. Any guy. </p>
<p>Maybe some people should quit putting their self-worth entirely on their ability to get a date and…I don’t know, try loving themselves.</p>
<p>I mean, what happens when this person leaves? You’re worthless again?</p>
<p>I agree, PL. </p>
<p>However, our society today puts enormous pressure on aesthetic beauty. Girls (and guys) are pressured to look a certain way, and because of this self esteem is non-existent. </p>
<p>Girls will gage their sense of self-worth by how attractive a guy views her. If they have a boyfriend, then they MUST be pretty.</p>
<p>Rupee I’m a hopeless romantic as well, you’re not alone :]</p>