Reflection 21-The Spirit Of Romance

The Spirit of Love...attraction, infatuation, courtship, and intimacy. We all can relate to these of so touching subject matters. When I ponder on the subject a few things come to mind from experience and learning about love such as when I first feel in love and when I thought I was in love. I do believe that love begins and was created by God. He showed us many examples throughout the Bible on the importance and basis of love. Not going into detail on the different types of love, but most focus on the agape love...brotherly love. In order to love another person we must first love ourselves then that love will out pour onto others. When one feels love for another person its becomes an attraction which is basically two people who are able to reproduce form a intimacy for each other. Love is a component that can be taught meaning that we could be taught to love through situations, experiences and circumstances. Then, on the other hand, love is something that is embedded in the heart and nurtured through life. We all express love differently in all the relationships we encounter and we also share it in a variety of ways. Whether it be in a homosexual or heterosexual relationship, we all go through the steps of love. Based on Freud's perception of love he believes that love is regression and sometimes believed to be true, but when you think about the cycle of life and love everything always tend to return to the original foundation. When reading the article a lot of the information was not quit clear, but when love is in power, when love is the ultimate source of a person it over powers whatever issues that a person entangles them self with. I do believe in the different steps of love, attractions, infatuation, courtship, and intimacy. Infatuation more so deals with the lust of the eye. When we see an individual, male or female we try and base our love on their looks and outer appearance, but I have seen so many relationships fail based on infatuation. This happens in many cases because its the beginning stage of a relationship and there has not been a true test of love; its merely puppy love In the courtship stage, that is when you have the heart of the other person. During this stage it is solely on sharing and giving yourself to that person and getting past being alone period.In closing, the intimacy is shared when the individuals know that they share a common bond and attraction for each other and decide to make that conscience decision to share those feelings for each other.