[QUOTE=Prodigy;40864]I will invest fully into each relationship I have with high quality, high value woman moving forward. I think that that’s the only way to have a truly meaningful relationship. If you’re always holding back, you’ll never really experience the full potential of what the relationship can be...[/QUOTE]
I agree 100% and it was the point I was trying to ultimately get at. When you decide to love a woman, love her. Period. End of story. BUT, do not devote all of your heart, passion, and energies to her and her alone. A person should never devote their entire energies to just one thing.
Also, understand that there are different types of love. People tend to forget that. They tend to think that love is love and that's that.
Wrong.
In Ancient Greece, they identitfied 5 different types of love:
Agape -- this is meant to represent an ideal type of love, something that transcends the physical. This is the highest and purest type of love and is generally used to refer to the love one holds for a God or set of beliefs.
Eros -- is passionate love. This is the what we normally think of when we tell a girl that we love them.
Philia -- is a dispassionate, virtuous love. It includes loyalty to friends, family, community, etc.
Storge -- is natural affection like that felt between brother and sister and parent and child.
Xenia -- is hospitality.
You see, not all love is created equal. There are different types for different things. The issue that people have today is that they don't understand that you can love other people in different ways and still have a great, passionate love for your significant other. This is what I'm referring to when I say carve out parts of your heart, passion, and energy to devote to worthy causes. Don't spend all of your capacity to love on eros or storge or philia, etc. Spread that shit around.
If focus your attentions on other things, besides just eros, then if your relationship does flounder and fail you'll certainly be hurt, but you won't be broken. You didn't spend all of your emotional capital focusing on one type of love, even though women WANT all of our love to validate them and to make them feel more secure that you won't leave her. This is when men get hurt, this is when men become broken and jaded...they, wrongly, believed that all of their love and passion had to be channeled through the eros category when, in fact, they have every right to love other things and people in different ways. That's what I meant by carving out parts of your heart for certain things.
Devote that part 100% to what you have allocated it for, but do not increase that allocation lest you run the risk of being truly hurt...
