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Originally Posted by heart
What kinds of love have you experienced?
The only kind there is in this world, the imperfect kind.
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Yes, that's how it works, doesn't it?
My mother loved me sacrificially... but too much, so I felt smothered and subsumed.
My father loved me protectively... so he avoided me so as not to accidentally hurt me, and ended up devastating me just the same.
But I have had friends who love me, who listen to me without telling me what to do, who show interest in me when I fail to show interest in them as much as I should, who share things of importance with me even when I fail to ask. They even say they delight in me, and I don't understand that but just accept it.
And I have children who love me, and I still do not understand that at all either, because I just see the ways in which I let them down.... there is always something more I should have done. But I accept it.
And C loves me. We have problems because of our situation and because we are very different people, but I can see C loving me probably the best C could ever love anyone. Even when it's imperfect, it's still radiant love.