How Will We Love?

I was looking on YouTube trying to find a video to post that would be interesting to me and I came upon this video, "How Will We Love?" It is a documentary exploring romantic love, relationships, and long term commitment. I found this very intriguing to me and a few quotes stood out to me from the beginning. As the interviewer was asking questions of an elderly couple he states," Would you like to live. Would you like to love like they did?"

I found this a very thought provoking question. Many people today do not know what it feels like to be truly in love and many people do not know what it takes to make it through the struggles it requires to acquire true love. This film talks about this obstacles and the common perceptions society has of love.

I also liked the quote "very few people get out of love alive." This quote may sound morbid but it is just explaining that 95% of all people have experienced the heartaches that come from unrequited love.

An interesting concept that was talked about was a "love map". A love map is the conscious but mainly unconscious list of characteristics you are looking for in a mate that developed during childhood. It is what one expert believes to be the main reason why people fall madly in love with that one special person. This love map is triggered when you meet the person and you know they have those characteristics that you need in a mate. This is different than the sexual drive, romantic elation, or particular attachment some people have towards partners.

This video is pretty long and takes a long time to load on youtube so I am going to have the whole video posted here and the trailer linked to this page so you can decide which you would like to view.


This is the whole video.


This is the link to the trailer.