With Love and the Complications of Love

The moral case for realizing that love is complicated.

Love is complicated.

It's messy and it doesn't always work out the way you want it to. Sometimes you love someone who doesn't love you back. Or you don't feel something at the right time for the other person to feel it at the same time. Either because their life is in a different place or because they're with someone else. They feel love for who they're with and so even if they do feel something in that moment, it's not something they can act on. Despite all this, there are people who manage to find each other at the right time and at the right moment. However, even then there are problems to deal with. Love doesn't just stay the way it is. It changes when circumstances change. People can become comfortable and not see the ways in which the person they're with has changed.

As a result, love takes work and a willingness to listen to the one you love when the way they feel has changed. Unfortunately, not every relationship can end up working out in the end. People do break up and have to move forward without them. Yet at the same time you can have lingering feelings which you're not aware have stuck around. Then you can run into the person again and all those powerful emotions come rushing back. You didn't want them to and you tried to hide them but in the end you can't deny them. You love them and there's nothing you can do about it. When the feelings come it can feel like magic. Like there are powerful forces in the universe who are trying to push two people together and the only thing you can do is give in.

Of course the problem is that then you have to do the work. No matter how fun it might feel to get swept up in the magic of it all, that feeling can't last forever. If you try to force the feeling to continue you can end up creating problems in your relationship. Things which weren't there before until you put them there. So in trying to keep the love and magic alive, you can end up making it fall apart. It's a strange thing but then love can be incredibly weird. There's a reason why people spend so much time thinking and talking about it with the people they love.

With Love is very much about the way in which love can be complicated. Lily Diaz, played brilliantly by Emeraude Toubia, is having difficulty navigating all the strange dynamics love can put you in. She wants love to be magical and powerful in the way it seems to be for the people around her. Her parents and grandparents seem to have it so easy. Other people in her life look on the outside like they're very happy in love. Although in reality, things are complicated for everyone she knows. There are parts of their love life which she doesn't see. When they're revealed to her, it becomes clear to her that she's not alone in the confusing way love seems to happen.

Because after all, love is complicated.

Do yourself a favour and explore the complications of love by checking out With Love as soon as you can.

With Love is available on Amazon.

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