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“To do it better requires beginning not from theory but from practice, with the grainy particularities of everyday live. In everyday life, people in love or people contemplating marriage ask themselves very specific, concrete questions. Am I really in love, or is this mere infatuation or just plain lust? How can I tell? Is my love for him (or her) reciprocated? How can I be sure? Do I as a man (woman) love in the same way as she (he) loves as a woman (man)? Do we seek the same things from on another? Is sex lovemaking? What has sex to do with love, or love with sex? Is there a difference between being in love and loving? Can my lover also be my friend? Can one be in love with, or can one love, more than one person? Can this love I have last? Forever? Regardless of how we change or what happens to us? How? Is there really somebody out there who is my destiny? Is there somebody out there who will love me, as I am and for myself? Is there somebody out there for me to love? If not now, when?”
excerpt from:
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying
by Amy A. Kass & Leon R. Kass

I have answered all these questions … and more.