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If it feels good and you're not hurting anybody, do it! This conventional wisdom is based on emotion, not logic. Conventional wisdom is something that human beings commonly accept—often without thinking about it.
What about the common experience that people call "love"? Is love a combination of what looks good to the eye and makes the heart race? Doesn't everyone experience the same euphoric feelings when they fall in love?
If these physical reactions accurately define true love, why are there so many divorces? And why wouldn't "love at first sight" seal a marriage "'til death do us part"? The Western world's sky-high divorce rates strongly indicate there must be more to true love than natural, short-lived emotional reactions.
Movies and marriage
Consider the movies. A few years ago, the movie The Bridges of Madison County was touted as "the love story of the century." This remarkably short-sighted advertisement illustrates how many people equate a brief clandestine encounter with true love.
The movie appeared to respond to a public that the entertainment moguls felt were more interested in falling in love than staying in love. This also faults a gullible society that encourages such movies. Today it's almost rare to see a movie in which a couple doesn't meet, fall in love, jump into bed together and live happily ever after—
a scenario that almost never works out well in real life.
Clearly, people contemplating marriage and married couples need help in defining and understanding true love. Do you know what defines true love, the kind of love that establishes and promotes a fulfilling, lifelong marriage?
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