When I was extremely young and shockingly stupid, I thought you weren't supposed to ever get angry at anybody you cared about (lest you suspect I'm exaggerating the "shockingly stupid" part, I also thought Mount Rushmore was a natural phenomenon). I honestly believed that people who were truly in love would never dream of having a good, old-fashioned, knock-down, drag-out fight. I guess when you're the type of girl who walks around thinking that the wind just sort of sculpted Teddy Roosevelt into the side of a mountain, the concept of a fairy-tale relationship makes total sense. Lisa Kogan
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I think this quote is an interesting one. Unbeknownst to us, when we are young, we are trying to learn what it means to be in love. We are trying to understand that idea of being in love. When we are young, we do not have the experience or life experiences to know how it feels to be in love.

So, when we look back at our lives and compare ourselves, or ourselves with someone else, there is a lot of "all or nothing" syndrome involved. We say things like "I have never been in love," or, "I have never fallen out of love." So when you compare yourself with someone else who actually has been in love, you may feel that you have failed at being in love. You may feel that you did not even get the chance to get into an argument with the person you were in love with.

It could make you feel like a failure because there was no fire and passion. It could make you feel like an idiot because there was no fight or fight-to-the-death between the two of you.

Source: Someone Will Be With You Shortly: Notes From A Perfectly Imperfect Life

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