Love, love, love. This word is so deep that some languages have more than one word for it. In Greek the word love is divided into Eros, Filio and Agape. The Eros is the kind of love a man or woman has for a lover/ spouse, while the Filio is the love for family members. The Agape on its own part is the unconditional love that comes by grace.
My question then is, if love is so different why do people struggle to keep it all? A young man gets married, then his mother or family begin to feel threatened that she is taking away his love for them. They simply do not know that it is possible to love his wife to the moon and back, and also love his family. The English language and many other languages have made the colour of love just one single shade, but it's not. There are different shades for every one, you don't need to crave for the other person's shade in your special person's life. You mustn't ruin your family because you feel your special person love's the other more.
Are you in a mixed family and you feel your spouse loves his children more than he does you? That is simply not true, he has a hundred percent of Eros for you and the same amount of Filios for his children. Enjoy your relationship in the light of the Grecian definition of love, and don't constrain yourself to a conservative definition. Go on and enjoy yourself! Cheers
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