Is It Really Better To Have Loved And Lost Than

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  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    Absolutely true! In my experiences I've learned so much from every relationship... each one has made me stronger and better equipped to face the next one so every one has been better than the last. In time the pain goes and you can remember the great times you had. Being heartbroken usually implies that you want what you had... cos it was better than not having it. In time you accept that you no longer have it but, if you're heartbroken, you still want it back.

    i'm mainly pissed off with myself for not telling my first ex straight to his face that he is a bastard, after he called me a bitch and was acting like a complete psycho. i know i shouldn't and with time my anger will go, but i do regret it.
  • genie wrote:
    i'm mainly pissed off with myself for not telling my first ex straight to his face that he is a bastard, after he called me a bitch and was acting like a complete psycho. i know i shouldn't and with time my anger will go, but i do regret it.
    :o aww... that's shit. I'm lucky that all my relationships have ended reasonably amicably... i.e. no shouting match and we've both got to say what we wanted to say. I didn't get MUCH closure on the last one so it took me a bit longer to get over and that was the hardest bit, really not understanding why we were ending! But I still got over it :) and I'm still glad that 'we' happened.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    :o aww... that's shit. I'm lucky that all my relationships have ended reasonably amicably... i.e. no shouting match and we've both got to say what we wanted to say. I didn't get MUCH closure on the last one so it took me a bit longer to get over and that was the hardest bit, really not understanding why we were ending! But I still got over it :) and I'm still glad that 'we' happened.

    it's wasn't actually a shouting match it was more one sided thing, he was getting more and more pissed off and agressive and i was getting more silent.

    i'm also glad that i met someone like him ( we never loved each other though), now i know the kind of guy i want and the kind of guy i don't want. also now i know that i should stay well away from people who don't get on with their mothers and get put on some tablets to make them calm ( honestly what was i thinking back then :rolleyes: )..... if i see any guy like that again, i will run away as fast as i can.
  • genie wrote:
    it's wasn't actually a shouting match it was more one sided thing, he was getting more and more pissed off and agressive and i was getting more silent.

    i'm also glad that i met someone like him ( we never loved each other though), now i know the kind of guy i want and the kind of guy i don't want. also now i know that i should stay well away from people who don't get on with their mothers and get put on some tablets to make them calm ( honestly what was i thinking back then :rolleyes: )..... if i see any guy like that again, i will run away as fast as i can.
    Wow... that sounds nuts... glad you got out of that one Genie :o . I've been lucky enough to learn from OTHER peoples mistakes relationship wise. I know some people who have been in some pretty fucked up ones and I think that may have something to do with why I'm usually single.

    On a side note though, not getting along with your mother isn't always a sign of anything. I haven't been in the same room as my mother since September... and that certainly WASN'T by choice. But yep I understand that a lot of people have problems and have to be on medication... but it's usually quite a worrying point for me.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • I dislike these types of threads so much. lol
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    Wow... that sounds nuts... glad you got out of that one Genie :o . I've been lucky enough to learn from OTHER peoples mistakes relationship wise. I know some people who have been in some pretty fucked up ones and I think that may have something to do with why I'm usually single.

    On a side note though, not getting along with your mother isn't always a sign of anything. I haven't been in the same room as my mother since September... and that certainly WASN'T by choice. But yep I understand that a lot of people have problems and have to be on medication... but it's usually quite a worrying point for me.

    yeah it was easy to get out of that one. it's just next time i will be more aware of warning sings ;) yeah, if someone doesn't get along with parents it's ok, but if i see other things as well then i will react.

    being single is good for clear mind and nervous system :D:)
  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    I dislike these types of threads so much. lol

    so are you passing through then? :D you can use interstate 40 if you don't like route 66 ;):D
  • genie wrote:
    so are you passing through then? :D you can use interstate 40 if you don't like route 66 ;):D



    Why dwell on the love that you lost. Move on cause there is so much better ahead. :D

    There I feel better now. :) lol
  • As far as romantic relationships are concerned. I can tell you that as a very shy teenager, I felt very lonely. So yes. If you're really not sure, try putting yourself in the shoes of someone that's never known they're family. An orphan, maybe? (I didn't mean for that to come out as patronising as it sounded). I just meant, no way! To have never loved means that you'd feel practially inhuman and therefore very lonely.
  • nfanelnfanel Posts: 2,558
    definitely better to have loved and lost.
    heartbreak is the WORST feeling in the world, but it's worth it for what's on the flipside.
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    nfanel wrote:
    definitely better to have loved and lost.
    heartbreak is the WORST feeling in the world, but it's worth it for what's on the flipside.


    True, very true!!
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    You been listening to Poison again Inhiding? :p

    **Sings "I Won't Forget You"**
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    gabers wrote:
    You been listening to Poison again Inhiding? :p

    **Sings "I Won't Forget You"**


    hehehehehe, I totally forgot that song...

    Must go to "youtube" now, thanks Gabers!!! ;)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • To Never Have Loved At All ...??

    Of course, or you'd have stayed in a perpetual state of naivety about how relationships work.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    I don't know why I am responding since I am in a fog now and not clear of the answer at all........

    still, this is too tempting to not answer to.........

    There have been times I thought I was in love, when I was younger and it was just a disaster. Those were not the relationships that I like to think of really, if they were to be done over, I would have done like this cool guy I use to work with use to say, "played it better". He use to say, "it's all in the way you play it". Now I get it. I allowed myself to be made a joke from the same guys who sure enjoyed the joke sometimes. enough said on that.

    and then there is my current situation where I have been married for 17 years (damn, that sounds so long) and I am seperated for almost a year now, and I see that we never ever had the real love that people dream of, hope for and sometimes really do get. I just don't know how they get it, because I sure didn't know it at the time; that it wasn't really love like it should have been. But when I am sad and lonely, I think that if carma,or fate or whatever it is suppose to be called, plays a part in this life thing, then it is as it should have been because I have 4 wonderful kids that have been worth all of the disappointment, sadness, and whatever else I now feel because the marriage gave me these kids. I can't look at my ex husband or whatever the hell I am suppose to call him; sorry I SO do not know that answer, really, and say that he and I had these kids because he just doesn't have what it takes to be considered a good father; he is so out of touch with reality.......it's sad really. So I feel that I had the kids alone, mostly, except for the chemical part, and now I still do. And even though I really am quite repulsed at him (after all of the times I wanted things to work with him and he was cold), because he killed the whole thing I am so glad that I have my kids because although they will grow and get on with their lives, as they should really, I hope they will always be in my life and I in theirs in appropriate ways as they grow.

    I still wonder about the love thing.........I wonder if when they are grown up and I think about getting into another relationship maybe if I will find real love.
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • AmentsChickAmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with that cliche either.
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  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Posts: 7,265
    I've been in love with life, and I've loved family members (still do on both counts). I've never had that you-complete-me love.

    Is it better to have lost in love than never to have loved at all?

    Sure it is. It may make a person jaded, and just give that person memories, but within those moments/months/years of soul-completing-love all the world is at that person's frontdoor.

    What else is worth living?

    (besides a plate of spaghetti :D)
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  • AllieAllie Posts: 2,908
    To Never Have Loved At All ...??
    yes

    some people go their whole lives w/o having the experience of being with someone you consider a true love. I feel blessed to have had that experience, even though it didn't work out
    "...like a word misplaced, nothing said, what a waste.."
    "Sometimes life should be consumed in measured doses"
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  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    it's better to have loved and lost.........than to have never lost at all.
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    brain of c wrote:
    it's better to have loved and lost.........than to have never lost at all.


    I'm sure we would all love that...:)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    maybe you're right, I just thought that sometimes heartbreak is worse then being sick at times...
    no doubt - in some ways it's better, but in other ways it isn't. I don't think that there is any definitive answer to this...
  • in_hiding79in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    no doubt - in some ways it's better, but in other ways it isn't. I don't think that there is any definitive answer to this...

    probably not, but at least we all tried!! :)
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • TrailerTrailer Posts: 1,431
    genie wrote:
    hehe, this is funny :D:) you loved this girl but then after you split up you forgot about her. it's like saying ok so this pen doesn't work, so let me throw this one away and get the next one :D

    I knew you'd like that one genie:D haha.. you're so deep with your pen metaphors! LOL
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • SENROCKSENROCK Posts: 10,736
    Trailer wrote:
    I knew you'd like that one genie:D haha.. you're so deep with your pen metaphors! LOL

    now, im not agreeing with u cuz ure hott or anything but...its true what u said earlier. and how genie put it. i mean, its easy-one "pen" breaks.....GET ANOTHER!!!!! :D
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  • glasshouseglasshouse Posts: 1,762
    from personal experience:

    most definitely.
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

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  • Depends on the partner, the circumstances of the relationship, and whether the sacrifices you made in life to be with that person were justified at the time, and/or later.
  • Yes!

    To experience love (true love) is such a gift. And can be a lesson if you view it right.

    And to lose it - for what ever reason - might hurt like hell, but to have had that is truly a blessing.

    And will prepare you for the future.
    "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
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  • geniegenie Posts: 2,222
    Trailer wrote:
    I knew you'd like that one genie:D haha.. you're so deep with your pen metaphors! LOL

    you knew i would like that? :eek: that kinda shit creeps me out, it makes me paranoid thinking what else you might know or predict about me.

    saying this however, there is one person in here that i think i can predict...well because i think he's a bit of a dork, in a loving way of course ;):D
  • writersuwritersu Posts: 1,867
    yes, and as Mick Jagger so elequently put it,



    "If you can't rock me, somebody will............"
    Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on The Creek......


    Together we will float like angels.........

    In the moment that you left the room, the album started skipping, goodbye to beauty shared with the ones that you love.........
  • PJPOWERPJPOWER Posts: 6,499
    Depends on whether or not the person blows their head off after losing...
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