Is love really enough?
By pbbbsra
@pbbbsra (1214)
Philippines
August 7, 2011 3:57pm CST
When in love, we sometimes say... I don't need to be rich as long as I am with the one I love... When we were just starting and making our plans for marriage. I told my husband this, then he answered, but love won't be enough... Money is also important. Love and money will always be together... I stopped and got surprised with what he said.
Then he told me... how could we survive if we only have love? Can we tell our kids in the future, we love them and just shut up when they ask for food? If they are to go to school and we don't have the means... can we tell them, son we don't have money, but we have love, that's enough.
I understood him more now.. I agree with what he said . A family survives not only because there is love. There should be a source of income to support their needs. We can't feed our kids with just love at hand...
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9 responses
@Larena125 (45)
• Philippines
8 Aug 11
My friends often say that love is not enough. That is the reason why everyone has to strive hard in order for the family to be happy because they are provided for well in all the needs especially the children. If not some couple will end up fighting because especially the husband is not trying harder. Sometimes it ends in separation.
@Jenith (1381)
• Philippines
8 Aug 11
Love is enough. When there's love everything follows like if you love someone you need to work hard to show that you really love him/her.
On the contrary, no matter how wealthy you are but love isn't there, it's still useless... you won't be happy in your life.
@nurseclare (2209)
• Philippines
8 Aug 11
You're husband is totally right, we must provide them basic needs. We need money for survival purposes but we need LOVE for us to be truly HAPPY. :)
@keihimekawa (2009)
• Philippines
8 Aug 11
I agree on this. Love is important, yes, but you still have to think about what will happen in the future. Especially the financial aspect of it.
Most people married simply on love and currently they are now having a hard time coping with their daily life. It even threatened to break up their once happy relationship.
There are a lot of things to consider especially if you decide to get married. Love is important and MIGHT be the most important thing when you're in a relationship but when marriage is in sight, love is not the only thing which needs to be taken into consideration :)
@rawar31 (112)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines
8 Aug 11
Love is enough but it MUST be married to a third power that would give understanding, temporance and effort( thats God). As long as you both understand your life situation and be willing to be a team together and savour what you do have with each other, but be patient and motivated to work together to get to where you want, then love is enough. I am speaking from experienceLove entails many things and once you have it along with commitment to your marriage purpose and trust beyond two doubts( one doubt may come). Then you can conquer any thing
@mhelsdelacruz (160)
• Philippines
8 Aug 11
Love is not really enough in a relationship because you can't live on love alone. .you also need foods. .Especially if you have kids already they needs to go to school, they have also needs aside from the love you can give. .
@ladym33 (10979)
• United States
8 Aug 11
Well right now we are experiencing something we are not used to. My husband does not have a job and other than the little money I make on line we are not bringing in anything. We have some savings that will save us and our home for a few months, but I am very scared. We have three children. I fear if my husband does not get a job in the next couple of months and we could be in real trouble. I love my husband like crazy, but if he doesn't get a job soon we could be out on the streets with our three kids. Love is wonderful but we can't live on it. If it was just my husband and I it would be one thing but we have to think about the kids.
@thetis74 (1525)
•
8 Aug 11
One song said that sometimes love just ain't enough and it was true. One friend of mind told me that a lasting relationship needs money too because it can be a cause for some fight and eventually love then flies over the window. Haha. How I laughed at that because it can be really true. If you have so much love and got nothing to eat love will not fill your stomach no matter how filled your heart is. Money, for practical reason, is vital for our survival especially nowadays.
We are not at the time of Adam and Eve where everything was there to survive that they needed money for.
@Shankerj (241)
• India
7 Aug 11
Love is enough:Not really, but yes! Love is important. You will do everything for the fulfillment of the needs of those you love, so you will earn too.
Love is important and importance of money can not be denied too.
