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rdfreak ([personal profile] rdfreak) wrote2004-10-22 06:26 pm

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OK before [livejournal.com profile] sugar84 and myself were discussing whether love is the same as obsession as far as people are concerned. I was telling her that I had learnt that it was different, but it took me a while to figure it out. It took me a while to figure out that in liking the women in my life I didn't exactly know them intimately yet I said I did. So I had to create immages in my poor little head to couteract not knowing them really, as much as I'd wanted too. So, while I believed that I "loved" them, it was not the case, but they were still on my mind 24/7 .. so .. I matured a little and loved a little, I mean .. really. .. I know there's a difference.


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[identity profile] internet-king.livejournal.com 2004-10-23 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Well I had the same problem, as you'll prob notice I didn't have enough space either, but I kept writing because I'm stupid and I thought that the things will still being typed because jaws sometimes doesn't read things properlly in those form so I thought it was the problem with the jaws, not the character limit, lol! Anyway, what I tried to say was baisicly kind of what you said that obsession usually means that you do think about someone all the time and you think that you love them, yet you don't neceserilly know much about this person. I used to be like that when I was younger, but now I really have to get to know person quite well, need to enjoy their company, have some kind of common interests, have to feel like I can trust this person and that they'll listen to me and help when they can and that I'll feel safe telling them anything I want. I think when you have an obsession with someone you don't really have many reasons, you think they're nice, but I bet if you're only obsessed with someone and someone asked you why do you love this person so much, you probablly wouldn't have too much to say except that you think they're nice and you can't stop thinking about them, but if someone asked you what's so good about that particular person or asked you some personal question about that person, you probablly wouldn't know a lot. Of course you can get obsessed over a friend who you might know better and you might know soeme things about this person, but I still think it's very much different from love and also obsessions usually end as quick as they start.