DEBUNKING MYTHS: WHEN IT"S TRUE LOVE YOU WILL KNOW THE MOMENT YOU MEET THE OTHER PERSON
I'm sure you've had this experience before.
You are in a crowded room. You're surrounded by boring, noisy chatter
when,
suddenly, this gorgeous guy enters the door. Your eyes meet.
Instantly,
time stands still. The universe grinds to a halt. Except for this
attractive man in front of you, everything in your vision becomes a
giant
blur. The hubbub of the crowd becomes a soft muffle and, from out of
nowhere, you here gentle violin music from the background.
One week later, he's your boyfriend. A few weeks later, you
discover
that your boyfriend's a pathological liar, buried in credit
card debt,
borrows money from all his girlfriends (you're his eight in six
months).
Your mind says, 'Dump him' Your heart says, 'But it was love at first
sight!' Here are the consequences ...
You become so focused on the magical first moment, you become blind to
the
dark side of the relationship.
Six out of seven days, you're fighting with your boyfriend. But you
can't
give him up because you met each other in such a magical moment. Your
car
keys fell and he picked it up, and then your eyes met, you smelled his
deodorant, and you dropped your keys again ......How can you not be
meant
for each other?
You become a love-at-first- sight junkie that you could miss out on the
'real thing'.
One intelligent woman told me, 'Bo, there's this guy who's courting
me.
He's okay. He's kind, he's responsible, he has a good job.......'
"I could hear a 'but' coming ," I
said.
'but there are no sparks!" she bit her lip.
"No violin music playing in the background huh?none. When I see him,
the
background music I hear is lululalu-lalulalula lei..."
Listen. You don't need a magical first moment to meet our potential
husband. The important things are mature character, financial
responsibility, ability for commitment, compatible mission and
values..."
I actually met this girl again on her wedding, and before she marched
down the aisle, she whispered to me, "Do you hear the violin music, Bo?
It's loud and clear."
It doesn't have to be love at first sight.
In fact, marriages with the least adjustments are those between friends
who've known each other for years before they realize that they're good
marriage material.
What is love at first sight? Many times, it's lust at first sight. Or
infatuation at first sight. Don't give it too much
weight.
Here's the truth: it takes a moment to experience infatuation but
true
love takes a lifetime.
#myths, #love, #marriage