Does love fade away or is Romance merely a fantasy?

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Re: Does love fade away or is Romance merely a fantasy?

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Love doesn't fade away. It stands the test of time and the trials of life. It stays when there is sickness and death. It is always there. Romance is what may fade. In the beginning, we try our best to show no flaws. We try to put the best foot forward. Later we get comfortable and stop trying as hard to impress the other person. That is the romance that is dying. The love is the feeling of companionship and knowing the other person has your back even if we don't "wine and dine" all the time anymore. If it was only about physical attraction it wasn't really love and will fade as time passes and changes occur.
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Love is always forever, that is if one really loved their significant other. Romance is what fades.
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I don't think love fades. My parents are still ridiculously lovey-dovey. It used to really embarrass me when I was a teenager. They work really, really hard on their marriage and it's something I've come to respect.
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I believe that love can be lasting and unconditional, but I also think that you have to work to keep that love/romance alive or it can become mundane.
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I think love can be 'killed' (for lack of a better word). If you don't work on it, wouldn't it just die away? Yaser and Nadia were pushing each other away, each almost repulsed by the other. They must have let their love die for them to have gotten to where they are. I believe that's why love is so heavily documented...yet barely understood.
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It is easy to fall in love, but I don't think you can just stop loving someone. Even if you aren't with someone anymore you still have feeling for them and love them. At least that's how it works with me. I believe everyone is different in this aspect because so many marriages end and so many people break up and end up not talking. It is possible they never loved each other at all, but again it depends on the people. Some marriages last years without fail, yet over half end in devorce. Sometimes people realize they don't belong together or they just grow apart. People are constantly changing their preferences and not many people stay the same. I know I'm not the same person I was 10 years ago. If people change, how is it possible to stay with someone who has changed to be the same as you or the opposite? Some may say they aren't the same person anymore, so how can you love someone after they have changed into a completely new person? You may love the old person, but not the new person the one they changed to be. After a certain age, people stop changing so much and stay relatively the same. Once they stay relatively the same it is easier to fall in love and stay in love. There are just so many possibilities with love it is so hard understand on a broad level because it is case by case. No one is the same, so no love is the same.
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For a sapling to grow into a tree, you have to water it and nourish it, from the start continuously and regularly. For romance to stay intact in a relationship, both sides need to give their best. Work needs to be done to maintain order, otherwise it is just chaos.
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If a love is genuine, I do not think it will fade. However, if the target of the love changes or disappears, then it will seem as if someone does not love that individual anymore. They love the old version of the individual that is no longer there.
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I think romantic love is an illusion orchestrated by our brain for various reasons including the more obvious. And, yes love just like all things fades away in time. So it's nothing more than a fantasy that the world is addicted to because it for the most part, for most people makes life a little more interesting.
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I think if you truly love someone, it will not fade away. Even if they undergo circumstances that might change the person that you love.
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Love is what makes us human. Our being here is a product of love and that is how we relate to our Creator.Romance is simply a subset of love and its existence depends on the people defining it -How they are relating for example. Otherwise the basic component that everything else is built upon is love.
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Love comes in many forms. The love you feel for your child is completely different than the love you feel for your spouse or significant other. True love is unconditional. I think many people confuse love with lust and there for feel love can burn out. Lust is a flash in a pan. A quick intense feeling that blinds all reason. Love however is pure and everlastingly.
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Love never fades, it's emotions that do. If romance is based on emotions, it will last for a short time unlike when based on love. Some people come together because of feelings rather than what drives the feelings; when feelings die, it totally becomes a different story. We can gratify feelings but not love, love endures the test of time.
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Love is a two-way street, both parties need to be in it to work. It is that simple...or hard!
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Frankly speaking, from the time my brain had started to grasp such sociological concepts that is my 5th standard, I've always felt love and romance to be frivolous.
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