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Jul 31, 2005 23:09

lately ive been thinking soooo much..its like i have 389029235 rocket ships blasting off at the same time...w/ each new discovery, idea or concept i feel enlightened and extremely content...ive become extremely interested in the question "why"...i feel like thats all i ask myself...."why do people do that", "why do i act like that", "why do people lie", "why this, why that" and im slowly learning that not all questions can be answered w/ why which makes it all the more intreguing....but yeah im done for now...i read something sorta interesting today so i guess ill post it if you care to read it...its about love hate relationships....Love-hate relationship

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A love-hate relationship is a personal relationship between humans, or figuratively between a human and an inanimate object, like a computer, or a field of study, or body of ideas, or a profession, involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and enmity. This relationship may or may not be of a romantic nature.

The term comes from the way one may love the object/person one moment, and yet the next moment feel great rage or hatred for it. For example a computer may impress a user with amazing video game graphics one moment, yet the next moment it crashes at a key point during the game. As a colloquial expression, if someone says "I have a love-hate relationship with legal studies", what the person is trying to express is a marked ambivalence about his/her study of the law; Parts of it are fascinating/attractive to the person, while other aspects are personally repellent to the same person.

A love-hate relationship often occurs when people have completely lost the intimacy within a loving relationship, yet still retain some passion for, or perhaps some commitment to, each other.

An addiction is also a kind of love-hate relationship. Another symptom of a love-hate relationship is one in which there remains a high degree of sexual intimacy, but the emotional intimacy has degraded or vanished altogether. Some in these circumstances have observed that the overall emotional feeling is not wholly unlike an actual substance-abuse addiction.

A love-hate relationship is between two people who refuse to accept the liking of each other or the enjoyment of one another’s presence. The couple usually holds a weak grudge towards one another creating a feud between emotional depression and 'happily ever after’. The relationship is held together by the hatred each person conjures when feeling incomparable to the other’s perfection. This anger is the cover up for the “love” part of the relationship because the couple dislikes society's knowledge of the affair. The hate is also powered by the teasing of each person while the frustration reaches its maximum level through the restriction on releasing their sexual tension and intimacy.

On the other hand, the relationship may be held together entirely by insecurity; the people in the relationship may believe that (for some reason or another) they are "unable to live without" one another, and knowing no other existence but with each other, choose the certainty of staying together over the risk of leaving. The two people in such a relationship are totally incompatible, but believe that they are both with the best person for themselves that they are going to get.

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