2007?:
Love hurts feelings.

Love is being overprotective and jealous
of a child, parent, lover, or friend.
Love is overanalyzing.
Love is worrying to death
and taking out frustration on the person you love most
because you cannot see that person enough.

Love is neglectful,
forgetful, and takes people for granted.

Love is vindictive,
reactionary, revengeful, caustic, critical.
Love is having arguments
without anyone winning
because both people had to throw their hands in the air.

Love is showing you care
to realize that the other person
has no idea where you're coming from
(like dying for someone,
refusing to marry again,
or bringing someone to God).

Love is misunderstood.
OR
Love understands so well
that you grate on each other's nerves.

Love is abandoning a child.
Love is adopting a child.
Love is keeping a child.
Love is never having children.
Love is comparing children.

Love is saying "love"
too much or too little,
making people interpret it as no love at all.
Love is interpreting hateful actions as love
so that they will be. But you'll never know.
Love is never knowing if you're loved,
but through that knowing that you are always loved.

Love is worse than poverty, illnesses,
life, or death.
Love is all of these things,
and wealth, health,
and happiness.

Love is psychological confrontation.
Love is confronting yourself alone in a desert.

Love is giving too much or too little.
Love is keeping too much distance or not enough.
Love is being too honest or too secretive,
too cruel, or too kind.
Love is too much like.

Thanksgiving 2017:
Love is taking a 10-year break from a poem, book, or relationship
to record the transformation resulting from life lessons for posterity.
Love is forgiving
and accepting that we are not our mistakes.
Love is recovering from mistakes, such as cheating again and again
while refusing to call it what it is.
Love is realizing that the solution is trust and self-acceptance.
Love is not recovery from a person.
Love is willing to start over with a clean slate.
Love is waiting for you to process
my confession of undying love.
Love is waiting for you to decide
that it's worth it to solve the countless obstacles in our minds
and our karmic riddles.

11/24/2017