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How do you show someone you love them?

Posted on Apr 23rd, 2008 by clyde : muse muser clyde
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 23, 2008:

I try to see who they are completely and love them for their brilliance and uniqueness and special talents as well as for their shortcomings and weaknesses. Both can be endearing. By knowing that person, i am more than likely to engage in a loving way and highlight just who they are in their uniqueness and respond to who they are. This requires a lot of listening, reading between the lines, NOT projecting my own nonsense onto them, etc. i like the idea of full attention and full listening. Something I don't always pull off real well, but i try. there's this dual sort of thing going on. our wheels get turning on different things you know. subtextual stuff. Not necessarily bad. Really cool stuff. but...I do get caught up in analysis and the fascination of the experience when face to face. That tends to enhance the listening though in many ways. This sort of 'sidebar' current. cool surprises are always good. thoughtful ones. goes with the knowing the person really well. having lots of energy and turning on like a light bulb when they're around is sort of a thing that just happens. nothing planned there. trying to always be original and creative. fighting for the relationship and remembering they're amazing qualities when we're down or the relationship is down. Not giving up. keeping them in my life and forgiving. i guess that's the unconditional part. Showing concern and compassion and being there when in pain. all sorts of stuff i guess
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Goddess2day   : Poet, Philosopher, Writer, Wannabe.
31 minutes later
Goddess2day said

This is so sweet, Clyde….like pure, unconditional love…

Amy :-)

clyde : muse muser
about 1 hour later
clyde said

At the end of my divorce, the thing that struck me the most was the idea that the person had been lost, the friendship. The core of it all. So…that one was burned in me pretty good. To be the best friend I could and never lose sight of that and the essence of a relationship. That sort of takes my selfish designs out of it. Amazes me that someone with whom we can experience such depths with, pledge our lives to both mortally and eternally, we can then start to miss what a relationship is all about. Like the possessiveness destroys the freedom we all need inside of a committed relationship. Then there is the taking for granted. Oh well, some lessons come with a larger price tag than others.

thanks Amy.

and…

hey you! =)

and btw…still think your response is best on this topic.  that they are someone's baby and to treat them as such.  That really stuck with me.

Goddess2day   : Poet, Philosopher, Writer, Wannabe.
about 2 hours later
Goddess2day said

…I know exactly what you mean… and your honesty shines through so radiantly… and fills me with enlightenment…

so good one…Clyde…

and..

hey you!  :-)

thanks for remembering…and for saying such sweet stuff to me….

You really rock, and to me you will always be somebody's very, very wonderful baby

Amy :-))

clyde : muse muser
about 2 hours later
clyde said

awe…

wittow tiny happy inner tears

big grin back

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