Can love last a lifetime?

Love is an essential emotion that keeps the world running. However, in a world where everything is superficial, we must investigate if love can actually last a lifetime. This is our focus on this week’s edition of WhatsApp conversation.

Sarah Agboola

Well, I guess no one can actually, accurately answer this till the moment they die, in the lap of their loved one, the smile on their face, a tear in their loved one’s.

But maybe the number of times the calendar has changed since you first felt that butterfly flutter in your stomach doesn’t matter because when you are with the one, time passes like a dream. You can experience an entire lifetime’s worth of happiness and joy and excitement and pain. Yes, Pain. Because nothing in this world is immortal. Even happiness isn’t. In the end, it doesn’t matter how many times you told her how much you love her or the number of times you bought her flowers, but the times when you held her hand when the going got tough, held her side when she needed you the most, gently caressing her head, patting her shoulder, taking her in your arms and whispering into her ears that this too shall pass.

 

Tomisin Salami

Love is an emotion and it has to do with intensity. We have people who fall in love at 14, they break up and see their first love five years later, they still feel a thing. That is because a lot of people don’t fall out of the first love they have; pure, intense and undiluted love. This love has had kings wage wars; with first love and if kept, it could last an entire lifetime as it is free of guilt and heartbreak. Some people can keep the same intensity though and they can build a love that lasts a lifetime or maybe even two.

 

Adejuwon Adeola

I don’t have much experience in matters of the heart, but I think what we call everlasting love is just two people who are committed to doing the hard work of being together, which is choosing each other everyday, forgiving, understanding and knowing each other everyday.

While there may be people who are forever entrapped in that first wave of emotions that got them attracted at first, I think for most people, being together for long is more about them committing to the relationship and not just about the feelings, because feelings are not always there. And I think this is what love is all about, after all, choosing that same person everyday.

 

Tosin Awoniyi

Yes, love can last a life time; The reason is this: Romantic love do last a life time and can lead to happier and healthier relationships. Romance does not have to fizzle out in a long term relationship and progress to a companionship/friendship type of love. Relationships can last a life time when each person is willing to go through the muck to get there. More so, when two people fall in love with each other and loves each other genuinely without much friction between them, love can last a life time. Although we all know that there is no perfect marriage out there and that every marriage has its own challenges, but despite all that, we still have some love that can stand a test of time any time any day.

 

Amos Oni

YES, love can last a lifetime and that does not mean you have to be together. To be honest, that feeling of true love will never go away completely. With time, you will learn to live with that pain, your heart will learn to live with it.

If you love him/her truly, then it is really difficult to get over him/her and get over that love. There is no easy way to unlove a person and it is not that easy. Accept that your feelings for him/her are true, deep and real and acknowledge and feel that emotion. Feel that love and also feel that pain completely.

Then wish him/her well and try to stay away for you want him/her to be happy if you truly love him/her.

 

Stella Eberechukwu

Oh yes!

I have seen several devoted couples who have been married forever! If this can be the case for them, it can be anyone and everyone who is ready to go through the phases to see that the love they want to stay with them throughout their lifetime. It is possible, we have seen it happen, the question is whether this present generation is willing to pay the price.

 

Mercy Kabawa

It can, but it is rare.

Love which has jealousy, arrogance, violence and constant nagging to each other is not considered good bonding. As such, it goes beyond the “God when” moments we see on Social media. Only the love which is beyond such issues can attain divinity and can last while you are here. Love is a beauty and those who understood the deep meaning of love devote their whole life to it. Love is not just limited to a specific person, love is an extraordinary thing, once you understand, you will take it with all seriousness.

Next week, the question we will be dealing with is “As you get older, what are the things that are becoming increasingly annoying?” To be part of the next edition, send your response to 08133601345 on WhatsApp.

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