So many movies, books and songs celebrate the fight for love, the struggle to take someone back, the heroism of not resigning to a break-up.
This may sound romantic but, if you think about it, fighting for love is almost a contradiction in terms.
We all agree that love cannot be bought. But can love really be won, either?
Or, to put it another way: how many examples do you know of truly loving relationships that had to be enforced, fought for, hammered into their shape? (Movie characters don’t count.)
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