This Girl's Explanation Of Why People Get Divorced Will Make Sure You Never See Love The Same Way Again

Aug 31, 2018 by apost team

A young woman's Tumblr post gets millions of views after she has an epiphany about love. She then has a change of heart.

Young poets and students sometimes have things to say that are so insightful that it blows us away. That rhymed. 25-year-old Taylor Myers' poem did not rhyme, but it garnered millions of views, comments, shares and attention. She wrote about a class that she took about relationships, and she said that this class changed her entire view of marriages and relationships. She said that she was bitter and sad at the time that she wrote it, and she never thought that it was going to get the attention that it got.

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In the poem, Myers said that ultimately the class taught her that people fall out of love for the same stuff that made them fall in love. For example, attractive spontaneity turns into irresponsibility or immaturity. Cute little bad habits become a waste of cash. It seemed to her that everything that drew a couple together eventually ripped them apart years later. That's saddened her so much that she said it made her not want to be in a relationship.

Tumblr users took a liking to the post. They left comments on it and read it and passed it on to their friends. One person left the comment that the post messed him up every time he read it.

When Meyers found out that her post was blowing up, she said that she never imagined such a thing would happen. Out of all the hundreds of poems that she had put out there, she didn't expect that this one that came from her admitted bitterness was going to soar to the top of the popularity charts. She felt the need to explain not only her initial post but something that she discovered a little bit later.

First, she explained her sadness and her bitterness at the time of the post, and then she explained that she got something very beautiful from the same class. One of the teachers asked a question of whether love was a feeling or a choice. The way the media and society portray love leans toward the feeling theory. Most of the students chose that answer.

That's not quite correct, however.

The teacher explained that true love is a choice. It's a conscious Choice people make after the initial feelings fade.

The honeymoon phase will always end at some point. The butterflies and the giddiness will fade one day. It's at that time when two people find out if they really do love each other.

They're willing to invest their time into working at that relationship. They will do everything that they can to make those old feelings come back. They'll put forth the effort to communicate, to spend time together and to try to figure out what went wrong. This is a choice and not a feeling.

Myers understood exactly why arranged marriages worked based on this concept. They work because the two people involved in them work to love each other. What do you think about love? Do you agree that it is a choice, or do you feel that it is a feeling? Ask your friends and family members too.