Love
is a decision
(Unknown - Maid of Honour Speech)
So this isn't from my academic reading, but from my research into a Maid-of-Honour speech as I have to make one in the not too distant future, and I am struggling with where to start.
I think this quote is true, at least some of the time. Sometimes love is easy, it fits and feels right, and works. But at least as often, love is difficult, it requires work, asks us to look past the things that are difficult at the moment to remember why we are in this. It is not always an irrational emotion but a rational decision, we weigh up the alternatives and decide that ultimately I am better off loving this person, be they partner, sister, brother, friend. It is a decision, perhaps more so than it is an emotion.
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