If Love is a Choice Then Choosing Love is Choosing Connection

It Goes Way Beyond Feelings

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It goes beyond kindness; it is the epitome of kindness to choose love. What or who you choose to love is about you making a connection.

So, what do you choose every day? Is it sports, a sports team, a person, food, writing, career, family, or …?

You’ve heard, “love is blind.” Love can make you do things you never thought possible, but doesn’t that teeter on addiction?

Let’s face it, if your “love” is gambling and you gamble quite a bit, then isn’t what you love really an addiction?

Don’t confuse this with loving deeply and with great devotion. No. There is a line that can be crossed in the name of love that becomes unhealthy and damaging.

When it comes to people, we choose to love sometimes beyond their faults because everyone has faults. When you wake up every day, look over at your partner and say, “I choose you today,” you are choosing to love that person no matter their flaws. You are choosing connection.

Anyone who is or has been married or has children knows that love is a choice. You choose to see the good. You choose to remember why you married that person in the first place. You choose to remember why you decided to have children. You…