How many times have you experienced true love ?

What was your story ? Are you still looking for the one? Do you believe there is such thing as “the one” or “have you ever had someone you thought was the one break up with you”

Do any of you feel this way? Why or why not

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2x experienced it

3x said it (I love you)

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Overrated. Biochemically no different than consuming large quantities of chocolate.

-Al Pacino

 

I'm still young (19-20 yo). I felt it for the first time when I was 17 at a summer program.

That being said, there's no such thing as "the one." Within a few months of leaving the program, I stopped thinking about her and focused on other things in my life.

 

Would like to think I have, but I really don’t know. Only had one GF of 2 years. She was smoking (genuinely 12/10) which certainly helped, made me laugh like no one else and was more caring than anyone I’ve ever met. Problem? She was the most jealous person ever and was borderline abusive. Tried to push me down the stairs several times etc. Stuff like that. After those experiences my feelings towards her turned so south that I don’t know if I could have ever loved her. Hmmm. Weird to reflect. Interesting yet highly tumultuous time in my life. Learned more and matured more in those two years than I did in the previous 18.

 
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Best: Getting high every day in college and laughing, fucking and contemplating life until the sun came up (literally). Just being young idiots without a care in the world. I also remember we were both relentlessly applying for internships together at the time. Both applied for 100+ each. Good times, haha. It doesn't sound like much but when it's you and your partner both pursuing a common goal and putting in hours of work each day, you get this sense of purpose and connection with them that just feels right and I've found is a sense of fulfillment that is hard to match. It's hard to explain. 

Worst: On my birthday, at my mother's house. A girl who I have known my entire life sent me a birthday message. I replied with something along the lines of 'thanks dude! ❤️'. Note the heart emoji. Didn't think anything of it because why the fuck would I? Was just being friendly to a family friend who sent me a birthday message... Anyway, I went to have a shower and when I got out saw she was scrolling through my phone. Again, don't think anything of it. She knows my password, is the other FaceID on my phone (same as me to her) and I had nothing to hide. About 2 minutes later as I'm getting dressed she says to me in a stern tone 'Why the fuck did you reply to her message with a HEART'. I was completely taken aback.

She then proceeds to genuinely burst out crying, saying 'What kind of a man are you to reply to another girl's messages with a heart'. 'My father would never do this to my mother'. 'You are an unloyal motherfucker, and I hate you'. 'If you do this again I am breaking up with you'. She kept on and on and on. In each instance getting increasingly personal and hurtful. 

At this point I couldn't hold back anymore. I burst out crying and couldn't stop. She had truly picked apart every part of my personality/character and drove it into the ground. It seriously, seriously hurt to see someone I held so much love for act like this, when all I did was reply to a message in a manner which was being friendly with no mal intentions. You know what's funny? She did the exact same thing to her guy friends on her birthday, and I didn't bat an eyelid. Why would I? Most people I know use hearts to text. It's not a big fucking deal. 

The worst part was my mother heard everything. Saw me crying, heard what my GF was saying, and she knew that all I did was send a heart - something my mother didn't think anything of either. The lot. This was a big deal because she saw first-hand what my GF was like, and immediately turned against her. Take my word for it. It's hard to stay in a relationship when your mother sees shit like that. 

My GF went home the next day. I saw her twice more before breaking up with her. Made me realise that the jealousy, manipulation and emotional abuse were too much to take. 

Sorry for the long response, haha. 

 

I’m not entirely convinced that love exists after a certain age. Guys just say “I love you” to a girl to get her to sleep with him and conversely girls say “I love you” just to get money from a guy or to easier control him (see the most helpful comment in this thread). All of this added with the fact with the ease at which people cheat on each other and move from one person to the next makes me think that emotional love dies out after high school or maybe college.

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

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