Author:
\nEternal! It is loving in spite of temporal addictions, bad habits, attitudes and faults. It is looking the other in the eyes and saying \u201cI LOVE YOU\u201d and feeling the eternal connection. It is an INSTANT COMMITMENT that will endure the eterni\u2026ties. It is your TESTIMONY that what ever happens you will love your partner past death do us part and through forever. Somehow that person would be patient while I struggle with their popularity, time consuming demands, and inspired dreams.<\/p>\n
They would picture what ETERNITY would be like stuck with me yet for some strange reason they would still love me\u2026<\/p>\n
TRUE LOVE IS ALL THAT MATTERS EVERYTHING ELSE IS A WASTE OF TIME!See More<\/p>\n
Commentor 1: Nice.<\/p>\n
Liz: Instant commitment? Gonna have to disagree there.<\/p>\n
Author: Why?<\/p>\n
Commentor 3: \u2026a myth, chemically identical to eating large quantities of chocolates\u2026.. lolololololol<\/p>\n
Liz: Why would you instantly commit to someone? Had I done that in high school, I would be in a very different place right now. Doesn\u2019t mean I didn\u2019t love that person but choosing to commit to someone takes time. You need to make sure that is really what you want and what Heavenly Father has in mind.<\/p>\n
Author: Yeah the above is talking about when you know you are Truly in Love with someone\u2026 like when you knew you wanted to spend Eternity with Shane\u2026 not someone in high school\u2026<\/p>\n
Liz: I get that but\u2026.I was truly in love with that person. I had to make a choice.<\/p>\n
Author: Correct\u2026 and when you made that choice you made a commitment in that instant that stuck\u2026 you did not waiver from it\u2026<\/p>\n
#Shane Livingston
\nI dunno\u2026there is a semblance of truth mingled with a lot of conjecture and hyperbole in your quote or assertion\u2026.if you are asserting that instantaneous felicity is what determines true love, then you are also asserting that instant gra\u2026tification is also acceptable and allowable\u2026so therefore, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!!!!<\/p>\n
Albeit \u2018true love\u2019 if it exists may also promotes the doctrine and concept of \u2018fate\u2019 and absence of choice which is contradictory to the notion that there is opposition in all things\u2026.we live in a world betwixt with maxims and oxy-morons\u2026..the main thing that we, as agents free to choose, have is the ability to choose and we have a direct and distinct ownership of the accountability attached to our choices\u2026.<\/p>\n
as much as I know that Liz and I were the right choice, it is not to say that it was instant nor did our commitment start at first sight\u2026.can it occur sure\u2026does it make it any less great, not at all\u2026months later when we committed to each other then committed in a temple marriage, our battle for \u2018true love\u2019 did not end there, rather it is on-going and never constant nor complete. If it was, she and I may grow out of true love as too many couples do, and forget that love is work, as opposed to persistent and free\u2026.<\/p>\n
fwiw my $.02See More<\/p>\n
Author: Again you two are way over analyzing this,,, lol<\/p>\n
Liz: A poem or thought is meant to be \u201cthought\u201d about, no? Not everything is constant or a given ?<\/p>\n
Author:
\nLol yes it was a thought, from an LDS hand out, which I agree with.. and the thought itself is a simple one.. unless you want to complicate the hell out of it by trying to over-think it\u2026 sorta like most people do about love.. its actuall\u2026y quite simplistic in nature\u2026 True Love is Eternal Love, it is only True Love once you have decided that person is going to be your Eternal Companion\u2026 it may be love otherwise but it is not true love. True Love exalts. Therefore True Love is a choice, its made the moment you decide you want to have an Eternal Marriage with the other person and therefore in that instant of your decision you now have made a commitment in your mind and your heart to that person\u2026 but thanks again for picking apart something simple and sweet.. it was a comment made to help someone ?<\/p>\n
Liz: I don\u2019t know why you are upset about it. <\/p>\n
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