Is it normal to not love?

i used to be a hopeless romantic. i sought the perfect girl to make me the happiest man alive. but after 3 years of marriage and 5 years later, i have my doubts about the basic feeling of love. i care for people. but love? you meet someone, become infatuated and either get tired of them or become compatible partners. or you develop an addiction to that person. seriously, love? i quit listening to fairy tales a long time ago. is this normal? or am i jaded? please, no comments from teenies.

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  • Kelaihc

    Love isn't fake, nor is it real. It's something all of us strive to achieve, or create, whichever term you prefer putting to this endeavor. It also depends on how much your logic comes into effect in this. People who center themselves more around emotion are bound to a life of looking for, perhaps needing love. Sometimes genuinely, sometimes simply as a social sign of mental stability. "I'm not normal if I'm not in a relationship and I'm X years old", "What will people think of me because of this divorce?", "He asked me to marry him, saying no would be horrible"... etc. Most of the time, love is related to self-satisfaction, social image, and guilt. It isn't really a true feeling. But it is there. It's more than just obsession, or compatibility, or infatuation.
    Just as much as social stigmas promote the image of love into a general negative upward spiral (contradictory, I know, but so is desperately seeking love only to give up on it a few years later as a *past and done experience*), so also they enforce it negatively. Marriage, the idea of one partner, soulmates, fairy tails. All of these things exaggerate the image we "need" to give out when in love.
    Love does exist, dude... It evolves constantly. It's not necessarily an emotion felt only towards humans, though it is essentially human itself. You can love anything or anyone, or not be in love. It doesn't matter. But you can't completely dismiss it as a fantasy because the feeling "wore off".
    That would be equivalent to labeling the years of marriage and the feelings you had up till then as lies.
    Were they?

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  • Pencey

    Maybe you should have waited a bit longer before marriage..if your doubting your feelings toward this person..
    Even through the longest period of time you could still not be to sure.. :D

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  • BoredGuy

    no such thing

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  • howaminotmyself

    Unconditional love is often misunderstood. Fairy Tales really are just stories that depict one small aspect of the phenomenon known as "love". Romantic love comes and goes. Poster, I'm sorry you've felt heartache but there are many types of love out there. Don't let this jade you. Love is powerful.

    I got lucky and discovered that my best friend is my lover. We are partners in life. He encourages me to be the independent person I am and absorbs those feeling of ick that get stuck inside of me. Sure, he drives me crazy from time to time but hell, sometimes I am crazy.The least I can do is allow for his craziness as well. We hold up those mirrors for each other and find a way to smash them together. Finding anyone to help with this is truly a beautiful thing.

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  • Kelaihc

    Fairy TALES. T.T Sorry, stupid typo on my part. Thinking about the anime Fairy Tail too much.

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  • I keep saying this to people everyone else seems to have to go through it to understand what I mean (even though I didnt) and then while they waisted their life on a worth;ess fairy tale they havent explored the other wonders of the world.

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  • wreckd

    Everyone who falls in love falls out. But once that "in love" stage fades, there is either love, addiction, or contempt. Based on how compatible the two of you are, you will fall into one of these categories. I believe that is how love works. My husband and I are extremely compatible so of course we love eachother. There may be times when we want to wring eachothers' necks, but the good times outweigh the bad.

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