Love Like It's Temporary (Because It Might Be)

Relationships sometimes end, sometimes don’t. But if you want the best odds for yours, learn to love like it’s temporary – because it just might be.

Every single day, 6,600 people around the world divorce.

Tens of thousands more unmarried couples break up.

Many of those split-apart people never planned to end their relationships. Some thought they’d never leave their partners. But things ended, and they did.

When things end, people turn bitter – and spread that bitterness around.

Online, red pill men burned by breakup and divorce claim “marriage is a game rigged against men.” They call marriage a way to “lose half your money, your kids, and your freedom.” They console each other that “she was never yours; it was just your turn.”

Meanwhile, female dating strategy women burned by breakup and divorce claim “marriage is a financial risk for women.” They say “divorce rape is a myth – women usually end up poorer.” They console each other that “men use women until something better comes along.”

The shock, pain, and disruption of the end of an in-love relationship is enough to turn many people from hopeful naïfs to hardened curmudgeons.

Yet once someone grows bitter, life takes a sharp southward turn.

READ MORE: Most Important Thing to Becoming a Lover of Women? Don't Be Bitter.

Don’t let bitterness blacken your heart.

How do you manage to love, bond, and have relationships in the full knowledge that things might well end? Is it possible for a realist to avoid the bitter cynicism of the burned?

How do you hold two equally opposite ideas in mind: “I love someone very much” and “Someday this might end”?

The only way to mix reality with trust and hope is through enlightened romantic philosophy. Such a philosophy removes the stress and suspicion the jaded feel, without putting on the blinders the naïve wear. That philosophy is this:

Love like it’s temporary – because it just might be.