MASLOW GOT IT RIGHT
Played It Safe By Sandwiching ‘Love’ — Intimate Relationships — In The Middle Of His 5-Tier Hierarchy Of Needs …
I Might Argue To Myself Love Deserves To Be Bumped Up The Pyramid To The Next Level. Relegate Esteem Needs — Feeling Of Accomplishment — Down A Notch. Or, Is It The Other Way Around?
“Do We Ever Fall Out Of True Love?”
Meh-Be. I’d Say, I’m Perfectly Incapable Of Unloving … If I’m Stretching The Truth. I Tried — I Failed — Miserably To Magnificently. I Wish I Wasn’t So Dramatically Inept At Uncoupling Love. Heart, You Shameless Bastard … We Should Talk More.
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Also found myself musing on Maslow this week!
https://beckyjo125.blog/2020/06/28/6-months-down/
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I’ve not been able to unlove. The men of my past were loved, and I still love them on some level. That’s not to say we need to be together, but I will probably always love them. (Que Whitney Houston)
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Michael, I’d like to add one more thing if I may: how abou embracing that uninvited guest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjJbJb2r5c
My best wishes are with you. Yours, Sovely
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Thank you, Sovely. Enjoying Uninvited Guest.
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The song or the guest or both? My best wishes are with you. Love, Sovely
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Both 🙏
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Sincere words and thoughts, thanks for sharing Michael. I always remind my heart to love like it is the first time, it’s always worth it. Yours, Sovely
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I think you are onto something here ref. Maslow’s pyramid. When love is absent, esteem does not seem all that important.
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You’re so right …
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Love is complicated but people are complicated…….but I’d like to think in the end love always wins
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I doubt that their is a “Truth about Love” that applies to us all. We all are unique, and therefore, love uniquely. A relationship happens when the two (or more, polyamory accepted) ways, have enough confluence to allow intimacy. Thanks, Dr. Bob
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perhaps love should be at the base of the pyramid…it’s the foundation for everything…
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I knew there was something fundamentally wrong about Maslow’s pyramid …
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time for some new research…
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Love is complicated. And simple. Also complicated. Because of the layers.
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It’d be a lot simpler if women kept men out of love. 😳
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