“You would know,” she responds. “The joy—the sense of completeness it can offer a person—is directly proportional to the amount of anguish one experiences when that love is withdrawn.”
Again, this is from Dr. Shields’ perspective. We fully agree that the more you love someone, the worse you will feel if that love, for whatever reason, vanishes. The question that remains is one we as authors can’t answer. It’s something everyone has to decide for him or herself: Whether the love was worth the pain it cost when it disappeared.
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