A wise man told me once that as long as I searched for love, chasing it, desiring it, needing it, it would evade me.
It took years for me to understand what he meant. I thought at the time that he was just telling me that the whole idea was pointless, and that love was only an illusion that does not really exist.
I know better now.
Love is not the beginning.
Love is not what draws men to women, and women to men.
Love is not the catalyst for stable relationships.
Respect is the beginning.
Physical Attraction is what draws men to women, and women to men.
Maturity is the catalyst for stable relationships.
When both man and women have respect, attraction, and maturity, and have shared these things with each other, love is the end result.
As with everything in this toxic wasteland we live in, it seems that all men and women want the prize, but few men and hardly any women seem to want to run the race for it.