Do you think it is possible to love more than one person at the same time? Is it moral or reasonable to feel that way? I am not talking about merely lust and besides I have lots of self-control. Sometimes I even confuse myself with my feelings and yet my feelings seem to be real. Do you think I should work on controlling my feelings more so I can eliminate or change this feeling or just let myself feel whatever I feel and be all right with it, I don't want to hurt anyone - including myself.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Is it Possible to Love More than One Woman at a Time?
Dear Sappho,
Do you think it is possible to love more than one person at the same time? Is it moral or reasonable to feel that way? I am not talking about merely lust and besides I have lots of self-control. Sometimes I even confuse myself with my feelings and yet my feelings seem to be real. Do you think I should work on controlling my feelings more so I can eliminate or change this feeling or just let myself feel whatever I feel and be all right with it, I don't want to hurt anyone - including myself.
Do you think it is possible to love more than one person at the same time? Is it moral or reasonable to feel that way? I am not talking about merely lust and besides I have lots of self-control. Sometimes I even confuse myself with my feelings and yet my feelings seem to be real. Do you think I should work on controlling my feelings more so I can eliminate or change this feeling or just let myself feel whatever I feel and be all right with it, I don't want to hurt anyone - including myself.
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Dear Confused,
ReplyDeleteAre you asking me if you should limit your feelings of love? I think not! Love has infinite capacity to exist and knows no bounds except the limitations we place on it. Love is as ubiquitous as the air we breathe and stars in the skies. To clarify, are we talking about love, or infatuation? Infatuation is a prelude to love. I believe love is always a wise choice and advise you not to second guess yourself and limit your ability to feel love freely. Why rob yourself of one of life’s greatest pleasures. Praise Aphrodite and be grateful for your ability to feel that most elusive and sought after emotion. But please don’t forget to love yourself as much as you love others.
Fondly,
Sappho
PS: Here’s what a few other others have to say;
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times she has experienced it. We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much love a heart can hold. ~Zelda Fitzgerald
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. ~Margaret Atwood
Love is the poetry of the senses. ~Honoré de Balzac
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~Mother Teresa
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524
Think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy directs your course. Kahill Gibran