Originally Posted by dusio

Love should be a "picture-perfect" state, am I right? How can people claim that a kind of a relationship with anyone can be perfect? Between people there can be devotion, attachment, sexual attrection, respect, etc. But where is the perfect nature of all of it? In all of it we can find a lot of ups and downs.

But in a state of mind of reference to the existential truth, the real wisdom there is only this and nothing more. It gets you higher than you can imagine. In such a state you cannot have any mixed feelings or doubts. There is no place for any recreancy, no place for becomin' suspicious. If you want the truth of your existence, you want only that thuth. And only that counts. Love appears in philosophy or in one's own existence regardless of "anyone-else"

Well, more or less...

Originally Posted by radical_abacus

Well, my issue with love is that too many people expect it to be perfect, which is wrong because there's no such thing as a perfect human being. So when you ask if love should be a picture perfect thing, my answer would be no, and people who expect that it is are only setting themselves up for disappointment. I think love is a good thing, in its imperfection, not because it aims to be perfect. If that makes any sense all all.

But I certainly see what you're saying; thank you for the explanation.