grind-the-rust [2009-12-22 03:42:48 +0000 UTC]
I guess it's because humans don't have eternity to love and give and be in. And probably don't live long enough half the time to find the kind of mate they have a mutual need with. True, there is defeatism, too, but if I'm permitted to throw in my two-cents worth, from what i have observed - more often than not, we give up when we start doing mutual harm.
Sometimes, indeed, it is habit and fear of change that keeps human beings together, rather than genuine patience or affection, other times it's servility on one side and self-righteousness on the other.
Which doesn't make self-sacrificing, brave and patient love any less noble - Love, after all, is a kind of madness that overrides the baser instincts.
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