Blinded By Love : Love Is A Fragile Love

The last of the three components of love is decision/ commitment. According to, “A Triangular Theory of Love,” this component, “includes the cognitive elements within a relationship.” Furthermore, this is, “the decision that one loves someone else, and in the long term, the commitment to maintain that love” (Sternberg, 1985). In other words, this is choosing to develop a relationship with an individual and choosing to love and remain loyal to that one partner for a long time, or life. Similarity, “the cognitive component, which reflects the decision to make a long-term commitment to a loved one” (Kassin, Fein, & Markus, 2016). In other terms, this long-term decision to stay with a loved is mainly based on the fact that the couple is in love.

Six years ago, a summer afternoon, my dad hugged me and I said “I will be gone for three days, I have a job in Austin, but I promise that I will be back before your birthday. I promise.” Days, weeks, months almost two years passed by and I did not receive any phone call or text message from him. Throughout that time my dad was gone, my mom told me that she was getting the papers ready to divorce my dad. I was noticing that the last three-four years that I was living with both of my parents, their relationship was getting worse. It was not a healthy situation for anyone in the house. What I mean about not being healthy is that my mother and father were damaging one another, emotionally and verbally, which my brothers and I would watch everything. Every day was the same routine, we forgot how it was to have a peaceful home. Around that moment, I honestly never thought divorce was going to be their solution.

1862 England (Victorian Era) was somewhat of an uptight society, especially compared to today. The majority of people, especially those in the upper class, were expected to be utmostly prim and proper and follow societal norms at all times. This included love, or what love was defined as during the period. George Meredith, in his poem aptly titled “Modern Love”, sets a scene where a husband and wife are sleeping side by side, both reflecting sorrowfully on their melancholy marriage. Meredith argues in this poem that the institution of modern love is inherently flawed, by exposing to the reader that while the husband and wife still care for each other, they want to leave each other because they are both scared of “modern love”. By doing so, Meredith is able to justify his overarching message that applies to all: love is a feeling that cannot be artificially replicated, and attempting to do so is only a detriment.

In 2008 the snowboarding brand, Burton released the contentious ‘Love’ series of snowboards, which featured images of 80’s playboy bunnies emblazoned on the boards. Parmett reviews academic debate concerning the objectification of women in sport and uses the series of boards as a case study of modern gendered lifestyle branding.

One boundless power in our universe is the power of love, which rips down barriers and creates a world where everything is in harmony. Love’s immense strength can be portrayed throughout literature. In Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, and John Green’s book, Fault in Our Stars, the theme that love overpowers everything is conveyed throughout the pages. In Shakespeare’s play, two-star crossed lovers fall in love despite the quarrel of their families. In John Green’s book, two cancer-stricken teenagers fall in love despite their limitations. The theme of love overpowering everything is evident in both stories through the external conflicts that failed to prevent their love, the lovers going great lengths to see each other, and deaths of the other lover.

Romantic love is a force that exceeds our rational judgment. Out of nowhere, it descends upon us and destroys our previous notions of ourselves, making us act in uncharacteristic ways. We do not choose whom and when to love; and falling in love reminds us of how little control we have over our lives. In spite of this, romantic love is often viewed today as a sure path to ever-lasting happiness. Shakespeare, however, was far more realistic in his portrayal of romance. In his plays, love often functions as more of a treacherous force overcoming the characters’ rational selves than a source of ultimate fulfillment.

Most individuals have experienced this feeling of ache in their chest—heartbreak. Despite the emotional pain they feel, heartbroken individuals are expected to function normally in their lives; however, it is not simple. What is preventing individuals from picking up the pieces of their shattered heart? It is their own mind. Markheim Heid in an article titled, “Your Brain On: Heartbreak,” asserts that being in love has the same brain chemicals as a drug addict. In short, when heartbroken individuals lose their “object of affection,” they keep craving that “chemical”—just like a drug addict wanting more (Heid). It stands to reason that the human mind affects people with a broken heart. Moreover, Guy Winch, in a 2018 Ted Talk titled, “How To

The Voyage began with my parents becoming high school sweethearts, I of course was not born until a years later. Love sprang up in the middle of their high school period of life and continued. After their many years in high school they preceded to begin a life together and as soon as they had the chance they pushed

In 2006 my parents had sat my younger brother and I down to talk to us. They looked so serious, my mother was crying and I was scared. They told us they were going to get a divorce. I didn’t understand why because they were happy together and they still loved each other, they even told us that while they were

you. Whether for a significant other, your favorite delicacy, or for hobby you enjoy. Love brings

Written by one of the best writers in the modernist era in the 20th century, a great story by the name of ‘’Araby’’ emerges. This great short novel was written by James Joyce. In the story Araby, Joyce’s main focal point is the young man who portrays where he lives in North Dublin Street with his family who is his uncle and aunt in a household. The author reminisces the time when he used to run with his friends throughout ‘’the dark muddy lanes of the house to avoid his uncle or when Mangan’s sister came out on the doorstep to call her brother in to his tea’’ (Joyce 243). The young man is obsessed and deeply in love with the young girl, who’s her appearance was well-defined by the light from the door half way opened ‘’Her dress swung as she moved he body, and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side”(Joyce 243). The author also mentions about the previous house owner, a priest who passed away and left in the back-drawing room several books that he occasionally took a glance at. The young boy’s dominant personality trait is his determination. This results in disappointment and frustration as portrayed by James Joyce in Araby.

Love can be defined as honesty, trust and respect; it occurs when two people touch each other 's soul. Every series, every story and every movie speaks about how two people fall in love and live happily ever after. All stories come to that same conclusion but what happens when two people don’t belong to the same social class. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a story about Jay Gatsby, a man who is part of the working class that becomes wealthy through illegal acts and throws extremely corrupted parties every Saturday night. In this novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald illustrates the lack of true love between Tom, Gatsby and Daisy. The protagonist, Gatsby is in love with Daisy Buchanan, a woman that is married to Tom Buchanan, a very wealthy man and he believes that the amount of money he possess will change Daisy’s heart. When Daisy discovers that Tom is cheating, he uses his status and power to deceive her in order to fulfill his desires. Tom, Gatsby and Daisy represent the upper class which with closer analysis demonstrates the Marxist theory by Karl Marx. Marx explains it as the practice of socialism which includes materialism, class struggle and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of class stratification. By critically analyzing these characters from a Marxist perspective, the matter of the

Does brain equal behavior? Some people have argued that they have difficulty saying it does because they find it hard to believe that our individual, tangible brain controls emotions that many consider to be intangible, such as being in love. This paper will discuss the role that the brain actually plays in love- why we are attracted to certain people, why we feel the way we do when we are around them, and whether or not this is enough to say that in the case of love, brain does equal behavior.

Mum’s planning on getting a divorce, she wants custody of me and it’s only fair I guess, she did carry me for nine months then give birth to me after all. Though, I wonder what went wrong with my parents, they were so loving toward each other during my childhood. On sunny afternoons we would go out to the park and have picnics, dad would push me on the swings and mum would watch me as I played on the slides. The arguments began just as I had started secondary college, at that time I was new to year seven and scared, so I forced myself to believe that everything was okay. I wasn’t naïve though, I knew my parents were fighting and were no longer as perfect as they used to be. It’s been two years now, the screaming matches have dissolved into

I have been doing a great deal of thinking about the relationship of vulnerability and love. Believe it or not, you are the most vulnerable when you are experiencing love. Years and years ago, I used to believe love was simply an elusive feeling, more of an ideal than a reality. Love was simply a fascination that you felt at the beginning of a relationship but never achieved in a way that was portrayed in the movies or in romance novels. In hindsight, I believe the “love” that I felt was merely a combination of physical attraction, a fondness for the girl’s personality and the security of being in a relationship. What I have since learned is that true love requires an additional ingredient more powerful than any other factor: vulnerability!