I was explaining this concept to my friend. Things are often not what they seem to be.
When someone says "I love you/him/her/it,,, etc" it is time to decipher the meaning correctly.
The love could be of two kinds.
- Like the love a woman has for her child. Most mothers would give her life for their children. This is the giving kind of love.
- Like the love a woman has for dark chocolate. She would like to take a huge bite and gulp it down, destroy it and then let out a contented burrrrp. I call this the love of consuming or destroying.
Unfortunately the English language doesn't differentiate between the two kinds. One has to exercise caution when one hears a partner claim that they love them. What does the partner think of you as? Child or chocolate?
A similar miscommunication happens when someone claims that (s)he is not choosy and that (s)he wears / eats whatever her mother/husband gives her. Here again there could be two meaning:
- The person is truly not choosy. She might eat / wear whatever other people give her without complaining. Truly catholic in taste.
- The person is very choosy. Except that her husband / mother knows what she likes and gives her only those stuff, so she doesn't have to reject anything they give.
You can see that the two are completely different. So again be careful how you interpret when someone says they eat / wear whatever some X person gives them.
A third example is your partner claiming to have good taste because he chose you. Oh oh...Heads you lose, tails he wins.
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