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You have good thoughts mrstace........

Imma break the rules and say I'm right in between on this one. For example, with my former best friend....man I loved that girl, I would have done JUST ABOUT anything for her, but then she seriously dissed me and I can't deal with that. I can't fight for for her if I'm fighting alone........therefore I "let it/her go".
 
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We could look at this question by looking at the ultimate relationship.......the one between God and man. God desires us to have moral character but we constantly let Him down, yet he still feels that this goal is truly worth it. So he fought for us on the cross. We could take this a step further and say that since he fought for all of us, yet many of us choose not to recognize that, then at that point, for those who choose not to recognize it....it becomes "not worth it".


The same for relationships...one can always be doing the fighting or "saving" of the relationship but if the other chooses not to recognize this expression of love then what else can you do?

Relationships should mirror the forgiveness and compassion God has for us but then there comes that point in time when it's no longer there.......this, IMO, resembles the end times for God. For a length of time (now) we are free to choose Him but at some point in the future we won't be as "every knee WILL bow and every tongue WILL confess."
 
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Closer to number 1 is the ideal, but then again you have to know when to let go, too. There are psycopaths out there who have been extreme number 1's, not taking no for an answer. I'm thinking of extreme cases like in the movie "Fatal Attraction", and John Hinkley, Reagan's would-be assassin, who had a crush on Jodie Foster. Not knowing when to let go is a problem too many people have.
 
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You could miss out on a lot of blessings if they came easy, that is for sure. A lot in life is truly fought for. I think that a person shouldn't give up easily, but there is a fine line of knowing when to hold on and fight and knowing when to let go of something. I think it mostly depends on the situation. Just think if our founding fathers had given up easily because the task of a free country was too daunting to them (not to offend our brothers and sisters from the UK!). Or even further back, what if Paul had given up the first time he was arrested for proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ.

But there also comes a time when holding on and fighting becomes detrimental to the person holding on. I guess it is a judgement call.
 
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