Serious moment, sorry
How deep do you allow your love to go?
If you have someone in your life and they repeatedly does things to themselves that are unhealthy to themselves or to those around them how long do you allow it to go on based on your love for them? Is love supposed to conquer all? There is an expression in the movie Love Story that says, "Love means never having to say your sorry". Is that really true?
Theory #1 says it is true because you know the person so well; child, sibling and/or spouse that when they do screw up you know them so well that you already know why they did and you accept their screw up and are willing to make amends and help them to recover and move on. Is that true love? Real love? Can real love conquer all?
Theory #2 says at some point this same person can eventually cross lines that even love can't conquer and at some point you have to step back from this person and not allow them to take advantage of you or hurt even others in a situation.
What about someone so selfish that they only see what is good for them. Is it your fault for being with them in the first place or enabling them to be selfish? If they are hurting themselves again are you an enabler? Are they actually innocent in the equation.
Points to ponder - does real love conquer all?
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You know I had a very similar post to this. It's a very hard thing to figure out. Of course this falls into one of those grey area's I hate in life.
http://www.lifeasjacob.com/2007/10/07/duties-of-friendship/
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