“For love is as strong as death!
Many waters cannot quench love; neither can the floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.†Â
My first love; I remember her very vividly as the first day I saw her conjure the exact image of her beautiful light toe to her neatly tucked-in hair bouncing across her shoulder with a regal grace. She was the only one visible amongst one thousand females in Amphi. My heart wandered on; it was beating so fast that I lost count of the rhythm. How I wish I could take a picture of myself then so that I can be sure I was the one with this erratic behavior. But as days go by, weeks draw near and months crawled on with my thoughts filled with her ravishing face, my heart longed to experience her presence and my eyes popped to her magnificent figure.  I hoped this feeling will never wane. Oh was I wrong!
Love is a subject that often attracts the greatest attention from the fully convicted atheist to the adept believer. It is a universal language that transcends all culture, race and country. It is actually the theme of the best selling movies to the best selling music. What ever the event is, if you integrate love, you will always be on point. I wonder if that is why I am writing this article to attract you to read it but I guess not. This is because it is a very difficult subject to broach. I actually don’t like writing about love may be because it has become very complicated or it is difficult to define but I like to improve the lives of my fellow humans so was I moved when people are affected by this love syndrome experienced in relationships especially between man and woman ( apologies to gays).
Here is a story, to set you on;Yinka – a female – is confused about her 3 months relationship. She is not sure of the future because Emeka seems to be acting inconsistently. He gives excuses whenever she asked him over to her apartment and she is scared if there is any future between the both of them. She sees all the barriers ahead of her; he is not from the same ethnic group; he likes partying; he likes alcohol; he talks of not settling down soon. This thought has almost consumed her that she decided to talk to someone to lighten this burden weighing on her. Well she talked to me and below describes our conversation; which she permitted me to print, hope it helps you;
ME: How is Emeka?
Yinka: I have not seen him for the past three days
 ME: Has he called you?
Yinka: I am beginning to think he is involved with another girl
ME: Why the thought? Is it an intuition?
Yinka: I saw a funny text on his phone so I’ve just being wondering
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ME: give me a summary
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Yinka: just a funny text and something like “I still love u” he was actually reading it in front of me
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Yinka: I’ve just being thinking about what will happen if it doesn’t work out eventually
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ME: I don’t think that is the issue
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Yinka: so what do u think the issue is?
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ME: the issue is not about it working out but if you trust him
Yinka: that exactly is the problem “TRUST”
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ME: Well, I have to ask some personal question if you don’t mind; this will give me a clearer picture of the issue
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Yinka: hmmmmmmmm, like, ok shoot.
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The personal questions and answers were edited because every one is different in this stead.
  ME: Tell me about yourself; your believes and valuesÂ
 ME: Tell me about yourself; your believes and values
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Yinka: Another problem is that he likes partying and drinking; there is no party in town that he does not attend; this can so piss me off.
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ME: that’s not the real problem
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Yinka: oh really; I think a guy should have a sense of responsibility at least
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ME: sense of responsibility is a perspective issue
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Yinka: alright
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ME: do you like yourself and really want to be happy?
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Yinka: Yes now; yes
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ME: Please, answer my questions
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Yinka: Alright
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ME: How many relationships have you had?
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Yinka: 3 serious ones
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ME: Do you consider Emeka a serious relationship
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Yinka: to some extent yes but it could be better
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ME: What attracted you to him?
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Yinka: I enjoy his company and it was a long time I dated someone; he actually came at a time I needed someone
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ME: from the personal story you have told me, he loves you.
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Yinka: Well, I have been bad sha
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ME: We must ascertain if you love him
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Yinka: Love is a strong word
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ME: Love is not a noun but a verb – Love is not very strong, it is what you make of it.
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Yinka: OK
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ME: U are actually the issue here not him
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Yinka: ReallyÂ
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ME: You have half your heart in the relationship and you want it to work
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Yinka: Putting everything in it is scary; what if it does not work? I will now be heart broken
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ME: Any which way your heart will be broken; you are worried about the heart being broken when you are already broken with worry.Â
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Well, I think this is where I will stop for now and continue in my subsequent post. Relationship gets complicated because of the definitions we give to love. We even worry over the problems we cause. We always look at the wrong things instead of the important things.
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