Just Loved

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”– A.A. Milne

When you’re around the person you love, increases in dopamine and norepinephrine lead to feelings of: L is for the way you look at me. O is for the only one I see. V is very, very extraordinary. E is even more than anyone that you adore can LOVE.”– Nat King Cole

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Spending time together may seem less natural and easy, especially when you’re both busy or tired. But love means you keep trying and make an effort to show you care. You feel deeply connected In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love.”– Mr. Darcy, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and who wants to see justice done. And she believes that all the people God made – all the people God loves – are worth fighting for.’ The Rt Revd Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool This is Jayne’s personal story of how, as an evangelical Christian, she was consumed by self-hate and internalised homophobia. It almost crushed her. But after much angst, she eventually made the leap to self-acceptance and LGBT+ advocacy within the Church. It is a reminder of the harm that is caused when religion puts dogma before love, and of the power of love to challenge injustice.’ Peter Tatchell, Peter Tatchell Foundation

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”– Helen Keller Langeslag SJE, et al. (2016). Regulation of romantic love feelings: Preconceptions, strategies, and feasibility.DOI: The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”– The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak I fell in love with the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”– John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars”No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved, but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason.”– Shakespeare, As You Like It Loving someone can involve a sense of strong connection and trust. You know your partner well enough to rattle off their likes and dislikes, values, and strengths without a second thought.

Jayne is a woman of compassion and strength. She has contributed richly to the life of the world and of the Church – as you read this book you’ll see how. She has the courage of a difference-maker, and the focus and devotion of a woman of faith who loves God When you first fall in love, sex can also help increase closeness to your partner. Great sexual chemistry can make you feel good about sex and increase your desire to keep having it. Wanting to explore each other’s sexual interests usually doesn’t hurt, either. You idealize them Being in love can make it easy to idealize your partner’s best traits (great listening abilities, musical talent, warm smile) and gloss over the less than positive ones (doesn’t return texts right away, flirts with your friends). Kids are taking their own lives,” she continues. “Cell phones are like loaded guns. There’s bullying on social media and it’s sad. It’s important for them to realize who they are, and they’re wonderful. God made them with a purpose and they are perfect the way they are.” You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”

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Loving someone requires you to see them wholly and accept all their parts, just as they see and accept all of you. Minor flaws often don’t really matter over the long term. When you fell wildly in love with your partner, you probably had sex all the time. As your relationship stabilizes, you certainly still have sex, but maybe less often or with less intensity. Support is also available if you're finding it hard to cope with stress, anxiety or depression. Symptoms of bereavement, grief and loss From global poverty to modern day slavery, from the refugee crisis to the climate crisis, our world is scarred by terrible injustice. We worship a God who is not ok about that. We long to see God's kingdom of perfect peace and justice on earth as in heaven. Most people experience grief when they lose something or someone important to them. If these feelings are affecting your life, there are things you can try that may help.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”– David Byrne No one was more surprised than Messina to have Swindell choose “ Heads Carolina, Tails California” as the song he wanted to remake, for his latest Stereotype album. The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change from within and without.”– The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak

Things you can try to help with bereavement, grief and loss

It may not seem like it, but being in love is a somewhat scientific process. Falling in love involves a lot of hormones, which can supercharge your feelings and make them wildly fluctuate.