If you love her, set her free!
By manong05
@manong05 (5027)
Philippines
4 responses
@okik35 (41)
• Philippines
7 Feb 07
yes, i also believed that but to a certain point only. If you hav ealready exhaust all your effort and still losing, then there's no sense in staying. you should know when to let go. the important thing is that you were able to let the person know how much you love her/him. And if letting go is enough proof of your love, then let go. you can still show your love in some other ways.
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
7 Feb 07
No, not giving up, but fighting within limits.
I've never been one to give up either, not when it's something that I want, but when it comes to relationships, sometimes the fight has to be done on our own ground instead of our partners.
The cliche about letting someone go if they want ... you have to disect it for it to become a reasonable approach. If someone doesn't want to be with you, there's nothing you can do to make them. You can't force love. We can fight, tell them we love them, cry, beg and plead .. but in the end, if they want to go, what choice are we given? Keep them there through force or guilt .... then knowing that they aren't with us because they want to be, which is far from self gratifying.
So we let them go, in hopes they'll come back, and we fight with ourselves ... to let them go their own way, to let go of emotion, hurt, anger or depression that doesn't serve any practical purpose.
@manong05 (5027)
• Philippines
7 Feb 07
I like the way you said "fighting within limits". It only proves the point that no matter how we love a person and let that person know how much we do, time may come when we have to let him/her go not because we have stopped loving him/her but that person thinks he will be a lot happier without us. After he left figthing with ourselves is inevitable but just like what you've said, it doesn't serve any practical purpose. The sooner we get it over with, the better.
Very well said.
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@jonatechme (104)
• Kenya
22 Feb 08
Love is two way, love and be loved. Giving up on someone who doesn't love you is ok for in pursuing this kind of love is not only futile but also a waste of your precious time which you would be spending with another lovable person who inturn loves you.