Love is powerful, it can overcome most anything. We all want it but none of the hurt. We push people we supposedly love away just because we’re afraid. Afraid of getting hurt. Until we go through life and find that one guy we fall deeply in love with. But then we are still mean, we still have that instinct to not totally let them in. We want to but its hard, we still push away we don’t mean to we just do. Most of that is caused because we were hurt by someone before and the pain of a broken heart is unbearable.
I came from a good home, my parents were still together and lived in a good neighborhood. Then I met Casey. I loved him and my parents couldn’t get enough of him. He was amazing we dated all the way through high school then college came and we couldn’t of been stronger. But something happened and sparked something horrid. Than all the sudden I was in a very harsh relationship, abusive, emotionally and physically. It all started one day when he saw me out talking with one of my best guy friends. I wasn’t doing anything wrong. I was actually about to take his one year old because he had work and needed someone to watch his baby. But when I told Casey that he didn’t believe me. He went crazy with jealousy and just snapped. I was afraid and that day was the start of the abuse. The next day I packed up all mine and Carson, my baby’s things and tried to leave, but he wouldn’t let me. Everything went rapidly downhill from there. I was terrified to wake up each morning just because I knew that each day I would be hurt even more. Now I don’t even say he’s mine anymore, my love from him has faded. But the strange thing about the abuse is that he apologized and brought me flowers and gifts after he hit me. At first I forgave him, bec...
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...st listen to me. It was to keep him safe. Casey was a jealous person I knew he would hurt Luke. I heard him yelling my name. That went on and on. Then I started to hear Casey threatening my guests, then there was screaming, and gun shots. I couldn’t let him hurt my friends and family. At this point I had no idea where Carson was, last time I saw he was getting food with my mom. Casey wouldn’t hurt anyone if I went out. All he wanted was me. And that's what I was going to give him.
If you’re reading this Luke then I am probably dead, he finally found me and he did what he always said he was going to do. Now you know everything. I'm sorry I didn’t tell you before. But I truly did love you Luke with all my heart. I need you to do something for me, take care of Carson. I'm sorry, you are already an amazing father to him. You are his father. I love you both. GoodBye.
I fell for a con man, I was brainwashed and an I guess you can say I was in his spell, I was in the cult of my abusive relationship. I was six-teen when I met him, he was twenty-one. We had nothing in common. What did I have that he could possibly want? Just like in a cult he wanted someone that he could manipulate, control, be taking care of financially. I believed that marriage was forever, you know for better or for worse. I didn’t even want to divorce my husband at first. It took me six months after I finally left him to file. I am an old school catholic women. You just don’t leave your husband. So with that being said, I hide the abuse from all of my friends and family. W. An abusive relationship is like a leaking faucet that starts with a slow drip and over time the slow drip has become a flooded house because the pipe has finally broken. First comes the fight, then comes the violent episode, then the honeymoon phase after the violent episode. The make-up sex was so intense. He would love to hit me then make me have sex with him. He would say it is such a turn on. He would always say I cannot believe I did that. I am so sorry it will never happen again. Sometimes months would go buy even years, but it would always start back up. I will say that the emotional abuse I suffered was far worse than the physical abuse. I would rather my ex hit me
Love can influence people in mysterious ways, the underlying cause is promise, that there is hope for something greater than oneself. We also see how this can create a chasm between family members. The fact of the matter is, love can stem from various situations, memories, or personal thoughts. There are some forbidden marriages that turn out to be a good thing, there are also parents who want give a home to an unsuspecting child they never knew they wanted. Certain situations determine who a person is through the experiences they are given and the feelings that are felt from it. Most of the stories that have come along are giving to us with an example of separation, a longing for love, an outcome that may or may not be beneficial in the long
Love and or the lack of love affects all people differently. The lack of love can cause guilt, and make some people feel unwanted. Love can make us realize that those around us are more than strangers, they are the ones who truly have our backs even in the darkest of times. Mary Hood’s story “How Far she went” tells us about some of the ways love can affect people. The story starts out with granny taking care of her granddaughter, because the granddaughter’s father can no longer take care of her. The granny and the granddaughter often do not see eye to eye with each other and therefor it causes them to bicker and at times leave each other’s company abruptly.
I was married to a controlling narcissist for 25 years. I jumped when he came home and our household became stressed when he was around. The kids were scared to ask him if they could do activities. He put me down every day in private, in public, and in front of the kids. He had nothing good to say to me or about me. He began over a period of 15 years talking about a fantasy of seeing me have sex with another man. This grew over the years, he was obsessed with the thought, and he began trying to set something up without my knowledge. I realized I was just an object to the one who was supposed to love me above all. I was severely depressed and didn’t eat. I had no appetite and lost 26 pounds in two months and I didn’t think anyone cared about me. I was so beaten down I had no voice and just wanted to go to sleep and never wake up to get out of the pain. However, I didn’t because of my children. I
When I was a freshman in high school I found my first love. My first love and I were in an off- again/on-again relationship for nearly four years. I was so overwhelmed with the attention and so-called love that I did not understand that my honesty and vulnerability was going to be taken advantage of significantly. He would be extremely loving one day and then the next he would be condescending and negative. When I would open up and tell him how I was feeling or why I was upset he would dismiss my feelings or make me feel insecure for even speaking my mind. It took me nearly four years to realize that I should not be defined as someone who should not express what I was feeling just because of an unhealthy relationship. My vulnerability took a tremendous blow and was almost non-existent by the time I was going into my senior year because I was filled with so much shame and hurt. My friendships and perspective relationships began to disintegrate because I fell into the myth of believing that vulnerability could be overcome alone. Over the span of a few months I began to open up again and I ended up finding my second love. We had the most perfect relationship at the very beginning so I began exposing my vulnerability, later I found that this was one of the biggest mistakes I had ever made. Similar to my ex, he began taking advantage of my vulnerability and used it against me to belittle
While it is easy to concede that love is an important part of the human psyche, the power of fear far surpasses the power of love. In comparing love and fear, there can be a direct relationship to one another. To love someone you will have the fear of rejection, heartache and pain of losing trust in your loved one. Romance novels, love songs, romantic movies have derived from a place within the writer with the knowledge of pain, miss trust or heartache.
“The prospect of pain generally, the pain of loss, of breakup, of death, is what makes it so tempting to avoid love and stay safely in the world of liking” (p. 3 l. 196). People are scared to be loved because they are afraid that their true personalities will be rejected, and instead they chose to ignore real love and stay behind a facade. He says: “To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived” (p. 3 l. 206). In order to actually live life, you must take risks and love. People can never know what happens when they throw their love on something or someone, and they might end up getting hurt. But life is about risks, and as he says: “Who knows what might happened to you then?” (p. 5 l.
According to the Academy of American Poets, Margaret Atwood, was born Ottawa, Ontario in 1939. Margaret had both a Bachelor’s degree from Victoria College, University of Toronto as well as a Master’s degree from Harvard. Atwood is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry which have been translated into multiple languages as well as published in over twenty-five countries. Margaret has also received many honors for her work and was even named woman of the year for Ms. Magazine in 1986. Atwood has taught at many Universities and today resides in Toronto (Academy). Among her works is a poem called, Orpheus, a poem that alludes to the myth of Orpheus. Atwood writes the poem from the female perspective to convey the feelings of manipulation and the selfish needs of Orpheus. In both the myth and the poem the male character is manipulative and disguises his selfish needs as love for the female character.
Love is said to be one of the most desired things in life. People long for it, search for it, and crave it. It can come in the form of partners, friends, or just simply family. To some, love is something of a necessity in life, where some would rather turn a cold shoulder to it. Love can be the mixture of passion, need, lust, loyalty, and blood. Love can be extraordinary and breathtaking. Love being held so high can also be dangerous. Love can drive people to numerous mad things with it dangerously so full of craze and passion.
It felt so dragged out because all I wanted was to see him and tell him the news. Our connection felt different, phone calls were made shorter and they weren’t as frequent. I missed him. Two nights had gone by without a phone call or even a message. This wasn’t typical of Luke. I was becoming increasingly worried. I tried to distract myself from the situation and went to Atlanta to visit my parent’s for the weekend. This provided a distraction from my despair. When I arrived home, the flat fell silent. I sat aimlessly on the sofa, starring at the telephone, hoping that maybe it would ring. I tried turning my television on but I was oblivious to anything around me. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I knew something was wrong. Fifty-five minutes passed, as I stared at the phone. That was when I heard it
My children and I are survivors of domestic violence. It all started 21 years ago when I met my now X husband. When we first started dating, I thought I was the luckiest young woman ever. In just a matter of a month Tom was so “in love” with me that we were not only completely enmeshed in each other’s lives we were on each other’s bank accounts, he paid off my credit card debt, and then moved into my apartment
To better understand the concept of "love", lets define the value of love. Love is the most valuable commodity in the world. We all need love just like a fish needs water. Without love, life would not be worth living. With love in our lives, we are empowered beyond belief.
There is a powerful feeling in the world that can change a person's way of life and thinking as well as the culture of society. This feeling is love and it is part of what makes life worth living and in the end livable. People tend to find the feeling of love to be either beautiful, painful, or disdainful, but for the most part unexplainable. Meanwhile, some might say that it is just a chemical reaction in the brain that happens to increase the chances of reproduction. Ultimately, love comes in many different forms and each form gives its own meaning to love and worth to human life.
Love is the most powerful emotion that most of us will ever experience. People can do some grateful things out of hate and fear, but love can push us to do much, much worse. It is often love can cause us to hate, whether it is out of jealousy, or anger because our loved one has been hurt. Love, ultimately, is a sacrifice, whatever the relationship, and it must be the most powerful force in the universe because as human true sacrifices for nothing less.
Love in itself is a chance you need to be willing to take. There is no love without risk and even worse than risk, there is no love without loss. Everything in life is a risk, but risking to open yourself up and fully give yourself to someone can be the hardest of them all. It is courageous to love because falling in love can be hard. Relationships have the potential to either end well, or end horrifically, but the thing is, that’s the risk you have to be willing to take. The reason relationships are so complicated is because of the people in them. People make them challenging and complex. Who can tell you before a relationship starts if you are gonna be toxic, or gonna be part of something very special. The risk everybody takes on a daily basis with love, is a risk that can have a very giant reward, a big ring and a wedding. Some people are afraid to fall in love because they fear heartbreak, and I could say i’m that person. When I am in a relationship, I put in everything I have. I value all of the relationships I am apart of and I strive to make them better everyday. But sometimes I just need to face the world and realize that at some point, most of the relationships I have today will fail because people make mistakes. Heartbreak is inevitable, and that is okay. I will be okay. Heartbreak has a way of reminding us that we are in love, and that we do know how to love. The desire people have to make things last will force you to giving love another try. When you set all your reservations and fears aside, you will allow yourself to love and prosper in a relationship. Heartbreak in a relationship doesn’t just occur when you and your significant other break up, you feel heartbreak when someone you love passes away, you lose a friend you thought you would have forever and for many other reasons. Although heartbreak does suck, it is a part of the excitement of life. In relationships you are never supposed to know how