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Healthy Love

by Adverb

We have dedicated Contemporary Love to the promotion of 'healthy' love, romance and relationships, without having said anything about what we consider to be 'healthy'. Thought I'd take a moment to share some thoughts on the topic.

In my opinion, a healthy relationship is one in which all of the parties involved have a sincere desire to see those or that which they love grow and flourish. That's what healthy things do. They grow and flourish. We promote the well-being and development of what we love when we love in a healthy way.

This applies to every form of love - self, mate, family, country, profession, etc.

It implies the notion of reasonable sacrifice on behalf of what we love, a lessening of self-interest and selfishness and becomes the healthy expression of the love we feel.

Of course, it is a simple thing to make such basic definitions. It is another thing to live by them day-to-day.