Love is a variety of different feelings,
states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection to
pleasure. It can refer to an emotion of a
strong attraction and personal attachment towards another. It can also
be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the
unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". It may
also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other
humans, one's self or animals. In playing out love, selfishness is ruled
out, you try to satisfy your partner, you don’t try to get what you
want but to do what your partner wants. So love means different things
at different times to different people. And in this write up, we are
interested in love on the interpersonal concept especially over a man
and a woman who have developed and expressed strong feelings of
affection for each other. It is natural for a man to profess love to a
woman and in many cases; they end up getting married as husband and
wife. Good news!
A man and a woman getting married is not a
guarantee that there must be love between them. Some marriages are
characterized by hatred, envy, jealousy, quarrel, fight etc. Certainly
by no measure this is not love. That strong emotion of attraction is
found wanting and on the other way round there are homes that thrive in
peace and tranquility, characterized by charity, kindness, and such
virtues as understanding, patience, trust, acceptance, tolerance, etc.
Such are could be found in homes where the man and woman live as friends and play
mates and not as cat and dog, they live as compliments and help-meets to
each other. Such homes are love personified. The love in such homes
doesn’t just happen; it is a conscious decision of the man and the woman
to live in one accord. It is common in homes where the man chooses to
love his woman.
To the woman, to love is the ability of the man to
show care and handle her like a baby. To win her heart, loving her the
way she wishes to be loved. To love is to make her and to make her feel
woman enough because that is the dream of every woman to be loved,
cherished and appreciated in the hands of her man. Love is so beautiful
and it covers all sins. When a man loves his woman, he understands her
love language and sings it romantically to her best tune and this to the
woman is awesome. Everybody has unique love language which is that
particular gesture that makes him or her exceptionally happy his/her
relationship. Such gestures as words of affirmation, gifts, acts of
service, quality time and physical touch are the five love languages. I
listened to a woman shared her thoughts over love language. According to
her, ‘I feel on top of the world whenever my man baths me.’ To such
lady her love language is an act of service. While this to her is
romantic experience, it may mean nothing to another lady who may say
‘what is so special about husband bathing his wife that I should feel
happy?’ When a man loves his woman, he religiously understands the love
language of his woman and sings same to her in his very best tune.
When a man loves his woman, he doesn’t go about bullying her for
whatsoever reason. Some men are fond of fighting their wives, and this
has caused some women their precious life-fight between husband and
wife. Too bad! Recently, the sad news of the death of Roke Bewaji Shonde
dominated the social media. Ronke, a mother of two (4 and 6 years)
joined the list of young women who died untimely in the hands some
senseless, irresponsible and heartless men whom in the name of ‘my
husband.’ Ronke is not the first, many precious lives have been lost in
this manner where someone who deserves not to live, who has no human
feelings takes life wittingly. The unfortunate thing is that many are
suffering in their relationships and such is only obtainable when a man
does not love his woman. God made marriage for beautiful
purposes-companionship, friendship, enjoying life together and not for
anyone to be abused.
When a man loves his woman, he finds treasures
in her and buys for her such beautiful things he sees outside. If he
hasn’t the money to buy such, he becomes troubled and nurtures the dream
of getting that for his lovely woman. When a man loves his woman, he
surprises the woman like never before. He takes fun in surprising the
innocent woman, while the woman ends up smiling like a queen of a king,
and indeed she is a queen because she is loved by her king. How
beautiful it is for a woman who is loved by her man; she feels
exceptionally happy. She testifies among her friends the friendliness of
her husband.
When a man loves his woman, he makes up his mind to
compromise. He understands that romance and passion may bring people
together but compromise and respect keep them forever. When a man loves
his woman, he understands that there is no such thing as a perfect
couple. He treats her with kindness and corrects her in love. He
understands that though his woman has some weak points, yet he finds her
gorgeous enough to be called a princess while rejoicing over her
strength. When he is being hurt, he calls her attention and makes his
feelings known to her in the most humane way and of course she makes a
change and apologizes all because of love. Sometimes when he is tempted
to nurse a regret, he remembers the old memories, such memories that
made him marry his woman, when a man loves his woman, their bond of
loves becomes unbreakable.
When a man love his woman, he sees the
weakness in her yet finds her gorgeous enough, when others see the worst
in her; he sees but the best in her. Though she isn’t a saint, he
confesses ‘she is my great companion.’ That is the one fit to be called
‘my love.’ A man who knows how to carry his wife along is not a weakling
but a powerful man. He understands that his wife needs to be
appreciated and one of the ways of achieving that is not by making her a
slave but by giving her a sense of belonging. When they join hands
together in agreement, they chase ten thousand.
When a man loves
his woman, his actions and behaviors make the woman to call him such
names as my lord, my king, my hero etc. when a man loves his woman, the
heart beat of the woman is normal.
Thank for your time with me. i would appreciate it if you can air your view/comment in the comment section. God bless you.
Chisom Anyanwu
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