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Wednesday, May 17. 2017

Falling in love


Lust, infatuation, True Love, erotic intoxication, romantic passion - call it what you will. We all know that new passion is exhilarating and agonizing too. Humans will do unwise things to taste that fruit.  From a scientific standpoint, this is caused by a little devilish prankster named Cupid who gets a kick out of making people crazy.


It is obviously a normal and frequent occurrence, and it is powerful stuff. How is a bourgeois Christian person to handle it when Cupid's arrow strikes in a way which complicates life?  How to break free when you have feelings for the wrong person.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 16:40 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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How is a bourgeois Christian person to handle it when Cupid's arrow strikes in a way [that] complicates life?

Same as with anything else: Declare it a product of blind evolution.
#1 Ten on 2017-05-18 07:06 (Reply)
Love is a many splendored hormone.
#2 Ten on 2017-05-18 08:27 (Reply)
All men are whorendogs.

-Popular rightist belief
#3 Ten on 2017-05-18 08:28 (Reply)
Good advice in that article. It's temporarily fun to indulge in a secret infatuation, but what you're really doing is substituting a relationship that doesn't exist for a chance of something real. You're not dealing with a real person who has his own independent role in a relationship with you; you're neither giving nor getting anything real. As the author says, you're in a blind alley, and nothing will do but to turn out and go back out.
#4 Texan99 on 2017-05-18 10:00 (Reply)
I can't identify with anything in the article. It reads like an article in a woman's magazine or a cheap romantic novel. I never fell in love with a relative and I feel confident that if it were to happen I would not be in a quandary about what to do about it. It all seems fake, made up to puff up the article. Maybe it's true/real and I'm just out of touch. But it seems to all be a problem for those people who are eternally dreaming of a romance instead of actually living their life.
#5 IdahoBob on 2017-05-18 10:16 (Reply)

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