Would You Give Up Your Dreams For Your Loved One?

I would never do this. I have had my own struggles with being an enabler and putting my own goals on hold to help someone else achieve theirs. It is a wonderful thing to be helpful, but when you put your goals on hold to be a savior to someone else, it becomes unhealthy. I am very young, only twenty years old, and I have often had trouble with detaching myself from a loved one who is much older than me. I would spend days stressed out, anxious, not going to school, putting my dreams aside, just to make sure this person was okay. Meanwhile, I was not fulfilling my own needs and wants, so I just became more depressed. It is important to be caring and helpful, but it is more important to stay focused on yourself.

For me, I would drop everything to be with someone I love because if you really love him then it is worth the sacrifice. You only meet the right person for you once in your lifetime, you seize the day!

I don't know...personally my dreams are very important to me and I can't see me giving them up. Especially as mine are just places I would like to travel to...I haven't met someone I would be willing to give that up for and I may in the future, but we shall just have to see. Now that I have a friend who will go places with me, I am more excited to follow my dreams than ever before....

We should always hold on to the dreams we have. They make us what we are inside. They can be what drives us. We can love someone and have them love us. Dreams should not be the sacrifice. A loved one should never ask you to give up a dream. it would be giving up a part of yourself.

maybe not because part of my dream is my loved one. but when it is about career, yes i can. in fact i already resigned twice just to be with my loved one.

yes why not if he asks me to so and we love each other so much.

It is hard to say that in all situations it would be the right thing to give up your dreams for your loved one. In most situations I would say that the right thing to do would be to make the right scarafices so that both partners could have their dreams come true. For instances if someone sold themselves in some way or another to let their partner have their dream fullfilled it would be not as satisfying as it would of been for them both to work together to make sure they both succeed. But everyone's stories are different and in some cases it might mean one does truly have to make a scarifice for the other to see their dreams come true. I would think the only way to have true happiness and continue to grow as a couple is for honest open communication. Have you ever heard of people sacarficing their dreams for another but in the end bitterness and divorce or seperation of relationship ends. So each situation as to be evaluated in one own's heart what is right for them and if it is right for them most likely it is right for the other as well.

Life is all about sharing and sacrificing. I think without the obvious sacrifice the man-kind won't have reached to the place where we are today. The idea of sacrificing for someone Else's dream to be realized is a tough decision. But yes!! people do sacrifice their own goals and dreams for their loved ones. The sacrificing act actually starts from the Sweet Home where our parent would sacrifice so many desires of there's. The only difference is that either we ignore them or never see them.

I would not give up my dream unless it's for an equal or greater purpose that benefits my loved one. For example, saving her life, or helping her achieve her dream instead. If not for these kind of purpose, then I strongly believe my loved one should support my dream and not ask me to give it up.