We absorb many things from our culture as we grow and don’t even imagine that there are other ways of thinking. About a month ago, I’ve met a paradox - the question which blew my mind.
We love our both parents, we love all our children. It doesn’t mean that if we love one person we don’t love another. Why then if my partner loves another person I know that she or he doesn’t love me? Can't a woman or a man truly love two or three partners? At first, the question seemed absurd to me. But the more I think, the more I realize that I have no good logical answer. Only that there are different kinds of love. And what about you?
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Wow this is a really interesting thought! And I think that it definitely stems from the idea that there are different kinds of love and that when we get into a relationship with our partner, we expect that both people will only love one another. However, I think it's quite normal for people to grow and love other people...just in different ways. I love my friends a different way that I love my boyfriend, for example, and I think that as we grow older and experience our different ways of loving people, we find out which kind of love we want to have with our partner. I think humans could love more than one partner, but I think that many people want to be exclusive and have this unique label of "I am yours and you are mine" and not "I'm yours, you are mine and we are both Sally's" for example. This question definitely had me thinking though! I hope I explained my thoughts well hahah! I'll definitely be thinking about this question for the rest of my evening.
Emily, I have never thought like "as we grow older and experience our different ways of loving people, we find out which kind of love we want to have with our partner'. It seems you're right, our body changes, our mind changes, and our love changes, too. And you made me laugh when I imagined the situation "I'm yours, you are mine and we are both Sally's". I understand that this may be so, but for me this is madess.
Your question makes me think of the movie Bandits (I don't want to spoil it if you've never seen it, but it does examine loving multiple people romantically).
Also, I can't comment on the title, but I think you're missing the "t" in "About" :)