Love Thoughts: Learning to love, while trying to live

This book details a personal journey that explores many aspects of male and female relationships. It emphasizes the trials and tribulations that men and women have struggled with throughout the course of time. Having written numerous things related t... Read more

This book details a personal journey that explores many aspects of male and female relationships. It emphasizes the trials and tribulations that men and women have struggled with throughout the course of time. Having written numerous things related to the complex topic of love and relationships, I have been humbled by my newfound understanding of what it means to love and to be committed. As this journey unfolded, I have learned much about myself and even more about the degree to which a woman is able to love. It disturbed me to a certain extent when I realized that the deepest love that I had every felt for a woman is only the most basic love that a woman feels for a man. Women live to love and it's the foundation of their happiness. They will fight to keep it and stand in the midst of ridicule to protect it. Like many men, I was never taught how to love or to respect women. The knowledge I acquired was gained though bits of information obtained from balers, womanizers, old folks and television. In all, I learned nothing. I stumbled my way through a failed marriage, encountered my adolescence in my thirties, and found myself searching for love in my forties. I thought that I was a loving man, but later realized that the qualities I thought I had were self-serving and inconsistent. Life has caught up with me now and Love Thoughts is my written apology on behalf of the male species, for our failure to dispense love and romance to the hearts women. As for my punishment, I have assigned myself a lifetime of community service. This sentence will carry with it no chance of parole for the crime that I have committed. My crime of failing to love a woman, when all that women had sought from me was simply to be loved. These are my stories. Less