Quote Originally Posted by TomOfSweden View Post
Please guys. Let's stop using Mother Theresa as a symbol of unconditional love.
Sorry my example didn't fit your given paradigm. Tom. The mention of anything to do with religion caused you to miss my point entirely, it seems. What I was pointing out had so little to do with Mother Teresa as a symbol and so much more to do with the ideas and questions about how love can be sustained and made real within a lifetime. I might have used a non-traditional approach to the discussion of a couple's love for each other, but my intent was only to address the issues within this thread.

I knew mentioning a religious figure would tend to create a certain mindset with some readers. Using Mother Teresa as an example of living and expressing love (again, which is what the thread is about) had nothing to do with religion and everything to do with thinking about it all with a different perspective. Referencing a religious figure doesn't mean I'm using religion as a standard for love and the expression of such. Not at all. I intentionally used an "outside the box" reference to answer a few questions that were specifically related to J-Go and Amber's situation (which is also what this thread is all about). That you didn't understand the way in which I used the Mother Teresa idea is of no consequence in regards to what I meant to convey to these two people about their situation. (And you're very right in saying that no such religious discussion about it belongs here in their thread.)

What I am hoping is that J-Go and Amber got something out of my nonconformist take on a discussion of living love, as they are processing quite a bit in their lives at the moment it seems. If not, then I failed in my attempt to assist them in my own small way.

(And Tom, since this is not a thread on anything religious (spiritual maybe, but not religious), I sent you a pm about your edit comments.)

All the best to you both in your search for your own happiness, J-Go and Amber, separately and together.