How do you express/feel love?

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) said:

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It's a well known idiom, and warning to recipients of gifts. a gift horse

philadelphos said:

She thinks efforts and gestures are a pointless, waste of time, money, etc. She's a materialist and narcissistic self idolater, so in her mind, it's her (dictated) way or else. So I suppose love is like a language, mutually understood by both parties.

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So . . . @MeGuy > how do we express love to a narcissistic materialistic dictatorial person? This can be good to know, because any of us might be acting like this, at times, even if we can share in a sensitive and considerate relationship with a special someone. I offer how God's word says to have "longsuffering" in our relating >

"with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love," (Ephesians 4:2)

Because even a really loving person can at times get the wrong way, somehow . . . I think this means. So, because our Father knows this about us, He is saying that even with our most special people, have "longsuffering" always ready. And our good example can help to get someone back to loving . . . to restore the person > Galatians 6:1.

Also, what if we have a person who is not in a mutually tender and caring and forgiving relationship with us? Can we express love to that person, even if he or she is even incapable of expressing love?

Yes, have hope for any person > love "hopes all things" (in 1 Corinthians 13:7). And we can help any person, by our good example, showing how we stay ready for love, all the time. And we show the person how to be, how to relate, so the person can get effected by our example. Of course, as a Jesus person I understand this means how God is able to spread how I am, to make the other person become the same way. How we really are inside ourselves can indeed be what we are spreading to make others the same way, including our children.

And 1 Peter 3:1-4 to me shows how housewives can by their good example help ornery men discover how to love.

com7fy8 said:

So . . . @MeGuy > how do we express love to a narcissistic materialistic dictatorial person? This can be good to know, because any of us might be acting like this, at times, even if we can share in a sensitive and considerate relationship with a special someone. I offer how God's word says to have "longsuffering" in our relating >

"with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love," (Ephesians 4:2)

Because even a really loving person can at times get the wrong way, somehow . . . I think this means. So, because our Father knows this about us, He is saying that even with our most special people, have "longsuffering" always ready. And our good example can help to get someone back to loving . . . to restore the person > Galatians 6:1.

Also, what if we have a person who is not in a mutually tender and caring and forgiving relationship with us? Can we express love to that person, even if he or she even is incapable of expressing love?

I would say so. And it can be by our good example, showing how we stay ready for love, all the time. And we show the person how to be, how to relate, so the person can get effected by our example. Of course, as a Jesus person I understand this means how God is able to spread how I am, to make the other person become the same way. How we really are inside ourselves can indeed be what we are spreading to make others the same way, including our children.

And 1 Peter 3:1-4 to me shows how housewives can by their good example help ornery men discover how to love.

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L o o o o o o o n g - s u f f e r i n g.
is like climbing a bamboo ladder that has broken steps and massive flesh gouging splinters, barefooted, to give Rapunzel her tea. For her to spit it in my face. Lol

I wake at 3-4am and leave by 4-5am. After a long day at work, my feet and back sore, arms scathed, thirsty and exhausted. I'm looking for a soft landing, a soft bossom, or sofa. The last thing I need is a mean face, argumentative words, and an inhospitable home.

It's a tall order for most, and feminists would scoff, but this is Rebekkah's example in Bible Gateway passage: Genesis 24 - King James Version.

"Behold, Rebekah came out …with her pitcher upon her shoulder. And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. …And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink. And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking. And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels."

Marty Solomon: "In order to water a camel takes the bedouins and those living in the Middle East 10-20 trips into a cistern... so she needs to make at least 100 trips down into a cistern, a 100 times up and down the steps" (see 00:11:30, A Mission Realized)

Rebecca lived in Aram Mesopotamia, similar (but probably smaller) to this one at Dara Turkey. dara turkey cistern - Google Search

It would be like a fuel attendant refilling 10 semi-trailers by the bucket. Happy tears.


Camille Corot, Breton Women at the Well near Batz, 1844. Oil on canvas, Musee du Louvre, Paris.
Breton Women at the Well near Batz

Express love as if the person is a part of you, of one flesh, or was married to you; I'm thinking. Ultimately marriage is the goal anyways. You can love someone without marriage, if it's not romantic. But if the relationship is of a stranger and of an intimate nature, then it's best to pretend marriage, I think. Marriage before bed stuff. And where i live, a lot of people seem to encourage bed stuff before marriage, which is dangerous.

I personally don't express love too much. Most women I've met are online and I don't trust online women much. I would rather express love towards someone local or someone I know more about.