Can love be rationalised by checklist?
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Re: Can love be rationalised by checklist?
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Love involves a deep emotional connection between two people that transcends simple rationalizations or checklists. It involves feelings of affection, empathy, and understanding, as well as a willingness to work through challenges and support each other through both the ups and downs of life.
While it's important to have some criteria in mind when choosing a partner, ultimately, love is a complex and deeply personal experience that cannot be fully reduced to a checklist. It requires a willingness to be vulnerable, to take risks, and to open oneself up to the possibility of deep emotional connection with another person.
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I feel like we all have our own expectations of what our future life partners will be like and I see nothing wrong with having a checklist to see if the people we meet can measure up to it. However, my advice is to be flexible and open to changing the checklist from time to time. No one is perfect, and if we don't accept that and refuse to see past the characteristics and values written down, we may be alone forever. In summary, a checklist is fine because it allows you to see what you look for in a partner, but don't treat it as a bible and be open-minded to change.Olga Markova wrote: ↑20 Feb 2023, 12:47 The book mentions the checklist of 267 qualities, values and characteristics of an ideal life partner Mark made for himself after his divorce. The abbreviated list of 100 of these traits is published in Chapter 17 of the book. I appreciate Mark's thoughtfulness in his trying to understand his own expectations so thoroughly and in such detail, but I personally would not care to be assessed against any like checklist - that makes me feel as if I were an item of furniture or other property. What do you think?
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I just can't seem to wrap my head around the fact that Crystal has all of those 267 traits. So, she has everything he wished for in a partner. I mean, is that even possible?