“Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires….Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand: Make me feel whole.”
To Discuss:
What are some other differences between love and attachment?
To Do:
On a continuum from love to attachment, assess your own tendencies in your relationships. Contemplate how you can move closer to love.
What God say’s:
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
New International Version
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
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