Love plays a major role in shaping lives. A young child who is nurtured with love will know how to love. Siblings that are brought up in an atmosphere of love will have close bonds that last. Family love is what holds the family together in good times and bad. “Blood is thicker than water” holds true more often than not.
However, there are different types of love. There is the love among friends, where close friendships are built over a period of time and have been tried and tested.
There is also the platonic love between people of opposite sexes, where close friendship has been forged and remains as friendship which either party can depend on, in times of stress and hardship, where sexual relationship has no place.
The most common love relationship is of the heterosexual kind, between a man and a woman and this kind of love is the most complicated of all. Yet it is the most exciting and most romantic especially in the first phase, the phase of courtship where the chase can be an exhilarating experience. It used to be ( and I hope it still is for the majority )the man chasing the woman but in this upside down world now, it is also where the woman chases the man!
Most of these relationships happily end in a walk down the aisle but many these days simply end in a mutual arrangement to live together. I guess the latter makes it convenient to opt out when things aren’t going well between them. Marriage requires a strong commitment to make it work, especially when there is a child involved.
Sometimes relationships become jaded, a case where familiarity can breed contempt and love fizzles out. One partner may move on to someone new, leaving behind the other to suffer in anguish and despair.
Some may get divorced so that both parties can have a new beginning. Others may remain in loveless marriages because of the children or because of other reasons.
Whatever it is, love cannot be taken for granted even if your partner loves you very much. It has to be nurtured like a garden.
If you do not water the flowers or the plants, they will wilt and then die, leaving it a place overgrown with weeds or worse, just a barren patch.
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