ong to spend the rest of my life withsomebody. As time passes by and I become older, I come to realize howin some cases a person who is in love is supposed to feel wonderful, butin the end just winds up being more lost and confused than she startedout to be.I was caught up into the confusion myself. While in arelationship, I began being the person my boyfriend wanted me to be andhid the person that I really am. It resulted in more pain than it didin happiness. He seemed to be content with the situation, but was itbecause I did everything to make him happy or was he really in love? Iwas convinced I knew what love was. I felt the weak knees and the needto rush the relationship, but I was mistaken by the wrong feelings. Itdoes not always bring pleasure and laughter into my life, but somedayhope it will. Although my relationship caused a great amount of pain,in the end it worked out for the best. It seems the people we love hurtus the most, and we become miserable with them, yet at the same time, weare miserable without them. It is a continuous circle of nothing butconfusion. Confusion is not all we experience with this feeling. Peopleclaim to get interesting symptoms from being in love, or infatuation asI call it. Dizziness, lumps in the throat, nausea, knotted stomachs,and weak knees occur when the attraction begins. Even indigestion canbe mistaken for this particular passion. In any other scenario we woulddislike these signs and claim to be sick, but because of theinfatuation, we automatically feel we love the person. I learned loveis not something that grows rapidly. It is not a need to marry thatperson. It is a friendship that slowly grows. It does not cause us tolose our appetites or go weak in the knees. This passion that we feelinside is more than that. If we based love on this, it would not lastlong. A big problem with society today is many people confuse thejoyful feelings they get from their boyfriends or g...
