What is Love?

‘What is Love!? …Baby don’t hurt me… no more!’ as the pop dance song by Haddaway goes. Haha, if you know the song, you’re probably hearing it in your head right now.

Actually love never hurts, but it is our ideas about love which hurt us in the end.

Let’s see if we can dismantle these ideas and notions about love so we can open the way to a more authentic experience. But don’t take these words for it, see what you recognize in your own life.

The Idea of Love

Growing up we are sold so many ideas about what love means and how love ought to be. Such a strong need and desire is love, that Disney, Hollywood, Hallmark, the diamond industry, and so many others have fought to corner the market on love. Before them it was religions which dictated how love should operate.