Lockit -> RE: 2 Questions for the readers........... (10/5/2011 11:06:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Underestimated2 quote:
willing to love as I love. I think locket in her last five words said more than all the words typed on this thread. But love as I love, implies an understand stretching from well beneath the cognitive level. Thank you Underestimated2... you can be sure, I will never underestimate you because you caught what explains my other words and is the bottom line for me. I was thinking I should come back and explain and you have helped me. What Insertclevername points out does have merit and I can give a big agreement to that, but it isn't always with a new relationship or with someone that has a fantasy in my view of things. Sometimes life throws out a challenge and people respond in ways that they might not have in different situations. Like, I had a great relationship once until a hospital trip and basically malpractice. My guy had this haunted look on his face and I saw it coming... he couldn't deal with the situation. He stood up, said... I'm sorry I can't watch this and that man ran for his life! He left me there fighting the medical staff all on my own, with no witness. I ended up calling my son to help me. Until that moment there was no sign that could warn me of what his reaction would be. Abandonment in a dangerous situation... isn't loving like I would love. I would face in that moment my fears or horror rather than run when I needed to stand. (Yes, I am a hard wench to hold someone else to that, but he wasn't being hurt, I was.) He didn't love me like I love. That hurt a lot. Who cares that he was looking at wedding rings to ask me to marry him? Which is more important? A guy willing to marry me and have the good parts, that would only run during the bad? Which means more? I miss him to this day, but... he did too much damage on that day. Rolling the eyes can be a small sign that something bigger is on the way, in my opinion. Had he waited just ten more minutes, he would have seen I had the situation handled. He didn't trust me and my experience with these people and I only needed help carrying myself out of the building. Instead he saw them risking my life and ran. Loving as I love, means trust and respect. There are signs when trust or respect is effected by the lack or adding something to the situation. I would not roll my eyes at someone I love unless I were joking. I would not roll my eyes because they said something I didn't like. I would talk to them, but starting a conversation with a rolling of the eyes or disrespect is going to turn into a nightmare. If all love and trust is dead... go ahead and ruin any respect there might be with rolling your eyes. Some of this also falls into honor. If you don't honor your word to someone, it is easier to disrespect and lose love by rolling your eyes at them. It may have been time to go before it got to that. So basically, when I love I will consider many things, but will not consider or give much time to someone that is hurting me, us, themselves by allowing whatever it is that is upsetting them, to harm our communications, flow of love, respect and trust by way of immature responses to adult things. It is a sign of far more than what is going on that caused the upset, and is a way of conducting themselves that suggests they may be unworkable in repairing whatever it is, because they are not conducting themselves in an adult manner (to start with) that promotes healing, dealing and working it out. We can all mess up... but certain types of mess ups... go deep and mean a lot of things and though I have tried in different relationships, people make choices that often times negate their prior choices. I don't fight that anymore and spend years trying to work something out with someone that shows signs of lacking respect or love, because that can go far deeper and it could already be too late to hang tight and love them when they clearly don't love you in the same way. Why beat a dead horse so to speak? If you love the way I do, you aren't going to disrespect that person unless there is a deeper rooted problem in dealing with adult matters, in my opinion.
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