I thought a lot about love.

where I work, I see all the time couples who have decided they are in love to marry, or at least they think they are in love enough to have married. I’m not a psychiatrist or marriage counselor so that I draw my own life experiences. Thus, of course, that my own point of view, is here.

The view that we as adults on love, marriage, forever and always has a lot to do with our childhood. If you are an intact family, you tend to be based on a family intact. If you’re a single mother, you are more subject to a single mother.

A person perception of men and women come to our first experience with them, Mom and Dad, or lack there of. If these experiences are positive, then we’ll probably find a positive in our own lives and relationships, when these experiences are not positive, we will probably not, or not, with much hard work and introspection.
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