I’m no expert or psychologist here, but my take on love has changed over the years. Our history has a fair share of love stories, some true, a lot of folklore and a plethora of them purely out of imagination. Jumping back to the article - a woman in her mid-forties running away with her soon-to-be son-in-law? Not that it’s a first for me. Youngsters eloping to get married is nothing new to us. We’ve seen and heard this for years. But what a complicated entangled relationship this turned out to be.
My guess is when the groom’s family visited the girl at her family’s home. The boy's eye definitely wandered and, lo and behold, landed on the least expected person of the family - his future mother-in-law. No one saw that coming, no doubt.
I don’t know the trivial details of their love story except for the fact that they were missing the most important moment of their lives - hypothetically speaking, a daughter’s wedding and one’s own is the moment of a lifetime now, isn’t it? They were smart, unlike most couples. They planned their finances enough to rob the family of money and jewelry.
Love I tell you makes one do such crazy and bizarre things, even if the mother had to break her daughter’s heart and steal the man of her life. In this whole situation, I’m sort of torn to take sides; mother, daughter, son-in-law or the hardly spoken about husband. Falling in love is not wrong and living with the one you choose is definitely not a crime. But how does one justify this behavior?
Regardless of what may have happened, I only wish the couple don’t end up getting caught - it’s wishful thinking. We all know that’s bound to happen, and when they do, it’s hard to fathom the consequences. Poor things, people around will drive the ‘love’ devil out of them. And then they’d go down in history books like all else.
My conclusion about love? Love is many, many things, but definitely not blind.
I don’t know the trivial details of their love story except for the fact that they were missing the most important moment of their lives - hypothetically speaking, a daughter’s wedding and one’s own is the moment of a lifetime now, isn’t it? They were smart, unlike most couples. They planned their finances enough to rob the family of money and jewelry.
Love I tell you makes one do such crazy and bizarre things, even if the mother had to break her daughter’s heart and steal the man of her life. In this whole situation, I’m sort of torn to take sides; mother, daughter, son-in-law or the hardly spoken about husband. Falling in love is not wrong and living with the one you choose is definitely not a crime. But how does one justify this behavior?
Regardless of what may have happened, I only wish the couple don’t end up getting caught - it’s wishful thinking. We all know that’s bound to happen, and when they do, it’s hard to fathom the consequences. Poor things, people around will drive the ‘love’ devil out of them. And then they’d go down in history books like all else.
My conclusion about love? Love is many, many things, but definitely not blind.
Since I didn't read the article and thus don't know any details, I can only use my imagination and experiences to offer my comments. Having been in love a number of times I can attest to the fact that when one believes they are inb love they definitely often do unusual and even irrational things. Many times the line between love and lust is blurred and later, when things come into focus, one realizes which side of the line they really were on. When it comes to a decision to marry one must make sure the side of the line is really love. Love requires friendship, acceptance, trust and commitment beside physical attraction. In my opinion, speaking from personal experience, one should take the time to be sure that all the elements for a committed relationship have time to develop before taking the wedding vows. To return to the article in question; I am of the opinion that this was more likely a case of lust rather than love and wonder how long the couple will stay together once the thrill wears off. Finally going off on a tangent, the article's scenario reminded me of the 1967 movie "The Graduate" starring Dustin Hoffman and Katherine Ross where the mother of the bride-to-be seduces the would-be groom in an attempt to sabotage the wedding because she feels the groom isn't worrthy of her daugher. True love and freedom win out in the end.
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