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Old 10-04-2011, 11:14 AM
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LaTeeDa
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I don't think there is a universal definition of "love." It means different things to different people, and even different things at different places in our individual journeys.

When I married my husband, I loved him in the way I knew at the time. I think I actually changed over the years more so than he did. Although his alcoholism progressed, he was essentially mostly the same as he had been all along. But, I changed. The meaning of love changed for me, from devoting myself to someone else to living the best life possible in the limited time available to me on this earth. The kind of love I had in the beginning was not sustainable, especially with alcoholism in the picture.

So, yes I do love my (now ex) husband, but in a very different way than I did all those years ago.

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