It's hard to accept love when in the past you gave love and received pain. It's very difficult to trust, which is a big element in giving and receiving love, when your trust has been betrayed repeatedly. I believe that living in the cyber age has contributed to the problem because there is so much more danger of being deceived when you cannot look into a person's eyes, hear the tone of their voice, watch their body language when all you have are words on a screen. The world is becoming more and more impersonal and there is less interaction between people on a face to face basis.

I think it is hard for some to accept love beacuse of fear. Maybe we are just not used to have someone care sooo much about us. It sacres us that there is someone out there that cares soo much and would do anything for us. When I fell in love for the 1st time is scared the crap out of me b/c i never felt like that before and i didn't know what to do with the feeling. I am only 16v but to be love doesn;t have an age on it. But i also think that everyone will have many loves in their lifes if were lucky. Someone once told me that if we endup back together than it is ment to be. i agree with that person. Love is a scary thing to all of us even if we hate to admite it.

We can not do this anymore, because everytime you are absorbed into someone's life you take part in thier life...the truth be told we are not supposed to be in anyones life this world is so full of hate and deciet...it is how can you say...fucked up

Well until next time i wish yall joyous or painful times.

Sincerly, The Face in the Moon

MY PERSONAL OPINION ON THIS SUBJECT MAYBE TRITE , BUT I THINK IT'S BECAUSE OF FEAR. TO EXPOSE ONE SELF TO YOUR BELOVED...... WILL THEY ACCEPT YOU AS YOU ARE FLAWS AND ALL ,SCARY? LOL . LET'S CALL IT A NECESSARY EVIL, YOU HAVE TO BE OPEN TO RECIEVE WHAT YOU NEED AND WANT.

Our educational system is geared towards making us incapable of love in the healthy sense. We are constantly bombarded with messages that if we let our guard down we'll be taken advantage of and exploited, not only emotionally, but financially as well. We are taught that this is a dog eat dog world. We are taught to fear for our lives, fear for our jobs and mistrust everyone. All very counter intuitive and unnatural things.

It is easier to control people who have no attachments such as love. read : 1984 by George Orwell, or The Prince by Machiavelli, or "Fear : The History of a Political Idea" by Corey Robin for more interesting tidbits.

I think most people are afraid to love because love can be so fickle and unkind and once people experince that for the first time they never want to feel that way again. So then people shield themselves from their emotions and don't believe in love anymore.

A big problem (espically in teens) *I'm a teen I can say this*

Love is very fickle, one week someone might be all over you and the next week they might be chasing someone else, and that is emotionally scarring.

Anywho that's the way I think of it.