Do you still believe in love?

When I was younger I believe in unconditional, undying, passionate, always and forever love, love will conquer it all type.  When I got married I thought it was forever, that our love will conquered all (so naive!!!!!!), that no matter what if we stand together we could face the world.  Never imagined that I would be getting divorced, that wasnt part of the plan.  I've never been the highly romantic mushy type,  I don't need love poems or to be called pooh bear, I just wanted somebody to love me for I was, with all my flaws, somebody to talk to, somebody to listen, ocassional romantic gesture, loving words, a hug, a kiss, somebody to hold my hand, to cuddle with, somebody that I could count on to be there when things were good but also when things were bad. 
Sadly I don't believe in that love anymore, I don't believe in forevers and always, maybe passionate but not undying love.  I don't need anybody to die for me but somebody next to me when my time comes, I don't even think I believe in romanticism anymore - I don't need somebody to write love poems for me but somebody to talk and listen to what I have to say.  I still will like somebody to hug and kiss me, to cuddle and have fun with, a friend that can also be my lover, somebody to get along with but that passionate, feel madly in love feeling, I don't want it, I don't even think it is in me anymore.  I might care for somebody again someday, I might really like somebody but I don't believe in "been madly in love" anymore. 
I gave it all once, at the end I gave more than I should and got nothing in return, I'm not giving it all once more cause I don't want to loose it all once again. 

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deleted_user
deleted_user

i agree with you. i was with my stbx since i was 15 and truely believed we would always be together. but after years of being hurt over and over with one thing or another i truely do not believe that there is an undying love out there. i am even scared to look. i don\'t know if i will ever be ready to look.

sending you hugs.... :}
deleted_user
deleted_user

Why couldn\'t I have meet you so long ago. I know this sounds weird coming from a guy but you have the same desires I do. Why is it so hard to find? The simple things mean so much yet they are skipped altogether and we are left hurt.
Misred
Misred

You won\'t feel this way forever. I promise. (((HUGS))))
deleted_user
deleted_user

I guess I\'m the hopeless romantic type, not in the \"composing sonnets\" way (though maybe if I had been we\'d still be together, who knows?) but in that I refuse to stop believing in it. In spite of everything I\'ve been through I still believe love conquers all, if both parties want it to. I still believe in undying love, because I know that\'s what I have for her, even if she doesn\'t. I still believe in forevers and always, because you can\'t prove something doesn\'t exist through one failed attempt to find it.

In the end, I have to keep believing, because if it doesn\'t exist, then what\'s the point?
deleted_user
deleted_user

so i cant call you pooh bear? :) i understand - i want all of those things too. i cant even think about it now - even after 14 months it is such a foreign concept to me. who knew i was such a work in progress? i am still not where i want to be mentally/physically. and i have no idea what my faith has in store for me in regards to meeting someone new. i do feel like by learning to love me i am filling up some of the emptiness i expected someone else to. its been eyeopening to say the least.
i am sorry you are hurting today. xoxo