When do two people love one another?
Love has so many meanings it is challenging to talk about love between two
people. Some folks love their dogs, a sunset or certain clothes. I love
baseball . . . really, I do. I mingle with people who love to go to church or
bowling. My friend loves to garden. One of my colleagues loves to see someone
sing . . . I think his name is Dave Mathews. There are those of us who love
good food. The use of the word “love” has very wide boundaries.
So, what does it mean when two people love one another? I have a working
definition based on loving someone for nearly forty years. For me, love is
mutual faithfulness, commitment to each others interests, values and sacrifice
even to your partner’s whimsy. My belief in God is deeply rooted in the love I
have found in the woman I met on a college campus on March 26, 1967. The joy I
have found in this relationship has to be related to a power greater than
anything on this earth. She has supported me in good times and in bad. She has
made sacrifices for me that no man deserves. I pray each morning and each
evening that I can be half the man she deserves. We have found love. We are one.
We disagree. We are different people. On some level, however, our lives are so
intertwined it is hard to know where her life and my life are different. Trust
me. This is not like loving baseball.
I know this description is deficient. The reason is I only have words to
describe this love. No one could ever reduce to writing the depth of feeling I
feel when I look deep into her eyes and her soul touches mine.
Jan Ricks Jennings, MHA, LFACHE
Senior Consultant
Senior Management Resources, LLC
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Reformatted March 17, 2023
Republished with permission from the Hospital News
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