Is Love Rational?

On Facebook, I responded to a comment. Someone had commented about how love is “never rational.” This same person then asked, “what else makes one open up to the potential for so much pain?”

No one desires to experience pain, but settling for not having love can be just as painful. When we decide that love doesn’t exist to us just to ease our pain to cope, we have just limited ourselves. When we stop reaching outside of ourselves to make a love connection, we will feel limited. When we stop taking chances in love, we sacrifice an amazing relationship made for us!

When we take “love failures” personally, we may limit what we do because of the fear of failure that may happen. For example, we may be fearful that we will pick another “bad one” if we don’t trust our own ability to make important choices like picking a significant other.

When we think of pain in love, we may think of a break up or abuse, but what about the absence of love? Any absence of love could be painful.

When we open ourselves to love, we can take an approach of rationality, but we have to allow ourselves to feel into energy so that we can determine if it feels right for us. Love is not rational in its essence because we feel with our hearts.