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All You Need Is Love

I think it is annoying and cliché to hear someone talk about the love of their life. As you can guess, this happened recently. I actually read a comment (on Facebook, where else?) about someone's love of their life. I rolled my eyes and then started to contemplate why that label bothers me so much, especially since I could so easily just roll with it since I have the most amazing husband.


What I came up with (while running of course) is that first it is totally overused. I bet you could interrupt a gaggle of high school girls and at least one of them would claim to have met the love of her life. Second, I don't think you can really know the love of your life until your life is coming to an end. Ask almost anyone that has been divorced or has ended a long relationship, and I'll bet they called their former significant other the love of their life at one time or another. Third, I think you can have more than one love of your life, which kind of takes away from the whole concept.

I am a perfect example of multiple loves. I would say my husband and my girls are the loves of my life. I obviously love them in different ways, but I also can't imagine my life being complete without any one of them.

If I want to take the idea to a whole other level to further prove how much of a truism it is, I could call running a love of my life because I love it and I plan to do it the rest of my life. Or reading because I have always loved doing it, it makes me happy, and I plan to do it for the rest of my life too.

Well, we might as well take this all the way. Who and/or what are the loves of your life?

RUN: My running miles have been low this week, however I am getting to know my bike pretty well. My legs haven't been happy to hit the treadmill, so I have been taking advantage of the opportunity to cross train by riding the bike (and loving the chance it gives me to spend some time with one of my loves...reading).
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  1. AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    I think we can love multiple people too. I LOVE my bf. I want to marry him someday and have kids and live happily ever after. But there were a few people in my past that I also loved very much--just in a different way.

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  2. ChristinaJune 18, 2010 at 7:52 PM

    I think I know who is the love of my life, but I haven't verbalize it yet because who knows where life is going to take me.

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  3. CoachhrdJune 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM

    Nice thoughts to share!

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  4. 5 Miles Past EmptyJune 18, 2010 at 10:29 PM

    I agree...we can have many loves. My old college boyfriend, my husband, my child, my dog...I feel this way about soul mates. It's hog wash. But maybe that just means I missed out on the soul mate boat. Who knows? i love my hubby and that is all that matters, right?

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  5. JillJune 19, 2010 at 5:01 PM

    Your girls are adorable, you're very blessed! I agree we can have more than one love of our lives, how cool is that??!!

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  6. MichelleJune 21, 2010 at 5:16 AM

    Those are great pictures!

    I've sure had a few loves in my life, but Dad Wonder is the only one who gets me.

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  7. Iron MikeJune 21, 2010 at 6:15 AM

    I love that picture on the railroad tracks. I'm impressed that there are tears despite both a binky and a lollipop.

    And it took me until the very end to realize that you are biking indoors (I hope).

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  8. LindsayJune 21, 2010 at 10:02 AM

    Love the pics!!! My loves right now are my bike, and having the kids home for summer.....

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  9. RunToTheFinishJune 21, 2010 at 1:24 PM

    probably a little like calling someone my best friend, I just don't like the label exactly...but Hubby and Running are really my major loves...oh and peanut butter

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