by RNorrisFaulkner

Created on: November 23, 2009   Last Updated: November 24, 2009

Love is hard to identify and is misidentified more than most of us know. In my life and times, I've witnessed obsessions, love binges and romantic fixations. But there were no rhyme or reasons for why so many got so attached to the wrong he or she. Some affairs of the heart made no sense. And getting a piece of the action is "true love's" enemy.

It seems all of us have loved that someone our minds had no answer for, we just knew this was the one. But something happened. When our love affair of a lifetime didn't last a lifetime, heartbreak headed our way and we were thrown. Some of us were still hooked long after the romance was over.

Many times we fall in love with an image we craft. So, we stubbornly hold on to it for too long. Some people carry a senseless torch for years, when there was no foundation for such a thing. Loose ends should have been tied-up long ago to a romance that wasn't what it seem, for what they thought it was, it wasn't.

Love is not an unbelievable attraction. When folk call love what it is not, it's like taking a bet you have no business. When daring gamblers think they have leverage, they bet bigger. Leverage means greater risk. Big bets are riskier, sometimes irresponsible, but when one thinks they're holding both jokers, they tend to get cockier and take on a gamble that should have never been made. What does this means?

A gambler on a hot streak will crap out eventually if he continues to go for broke, for he doesn't understand when to fold 'em. Relationships are the same way: If he or she doesn't know what love is, they will crap out sooner or later as well. A gambler who stays in the game too long is called a fool because he lost all of his winnings and didn't have to. The one in love is called a fool because all of the signs were there to get out when the relationship wasn't what it appeared to be, for they didn't have to get their heart broken.

Some people fall in love with one of the physical persuasion such as pretty hair, a beautiful or handsome face, pretty eyes, nice legs or a terrific body. These wonderful features are not love or a reason to call ones self in love. With others, it may be the personality, the voice, the smile, again, these are not love or reasons to believe one is in love. And because one has never had the kind of chemistry or connection with anyone else, still, does not mean one is in love.

Love with worth has a solid foundation, true love, anyway. Everything in our lives has a foundation of some sort,

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