There Is No Such Thing As Love

Let me give it to you straight, straight like an arrow.

I’ve had these words stuck in my head for some time now. Lyrics from the tit­u­lar Dears track I first heard in uni­ver­si­ty, back when I would go home in the sum­mer and watch The Wedge on Friday nights.

I know that’s awful­ly cyn­i­cal to say, but I need proof that it is pos­si­ble today.

I just wish I could accept that fact. I’m start­ing to won­der if that’s why I keep hear­ing the words in my head. It’s my sub­con­scious remind­ing me, keep­ing me ground­ed.

Maybe that’s why we watch these movies. Hollywood would have us believe that love exists.

It’s the same sto­ry, where guy sees girl, falls in love, and hap­pi­ly ever after. In between, there’s always the overused plot ele­ment of the guy win­ning over the girl by reveal­ing him­self and his feel­ings. After all, this alone is enough to win any girl over, regard­less of whether she found him attrac­tive or not, she was mar­ried or sin­gle, or he was the nerd and she was the cheer­leader.

But love does­n’t exist in real life, as much as I want to believe that it does.

Not for me, any­way.

140 comments

  1. i dnt believe in it either,ive nvr met any1 i cnt live with­out i believe that love is infact com­fort food 4 the weak n unin­teligent im sor­ry bt ive been hurt too many times to knw that ppl r sim­ply ammusd n want someth­ng different,a new toy it seems n now i tru­ely do believe that pow­er belongs 2 those who care less!!!!!!!n im a gifl soooo if im sayin this bwt love it shld make u think.….…

  2. i may be cyn­i­cal or jad­ed, but i believe that love is a fan­ta­sy.
    we can talk big and say we’re some­thin but unless we actu­al­ly act on it and do it we’re noth­in.
    we all act on how we feel. if your coked up you’ll act coked up. if you feel tired, you’ll act tired. if you feel loose, drunk or goofy, youll act loose, drunk or goofy. but its been proved that if you act a cer­tain way you’ll feel that way. you feel tired, act hyped. when it gets tough as urself what a healthy and fit per­son would do right now. then do it. boom, there’s your proof. there is no love, there are only proofs of love.

  3. There must be such a thing as real love, because why are there so many fan­tas­tic songs and movies about it?
    Just because it’s nev­er hap­pened to me does­n’t mean it does­n’t exist.
    Or maybe it just lives for short moments of time, and that’s the real­i­ty of it.

  4. Do u know which is the most pow­er­ful sex­u­al organ in human body??? well its our brain. ya its right its ur fukin brain, every­thing boils down to your brain it can make you love or hate sumone or some time destroy u com­plete­ly. so wat­ev­er going in ur mind or brain i means loving,hating is result of chem­i­cal reac­tion hap­pens in ur brain.. so i believe their no such thing as love. jst freakin chem­i­cal reac­tion that make us to do so.
    i m frm india. htey say naah
    “mind is ur best friend if u con­trols its but worst ene­my if it con­trols you..!!
    so friend dnt let ur mind to over­come your emotion.stop wast­ing ur time in doin love. do some­thing wor­thy. take care

  5. I think Love seems to be more about mon­ey then love. Let’s face it mon­ey may not buy love but thanks to the Kardatians and tv in gen­er­al. Real house­wives etc. Women’s inde­pen­dence and women mak­ing more mon­ey than men and want­i­ng their men to make much more then them espe­cial­ly with this econ­o­my. It seems to be a so called man now is hard­er to be then it ever was before if that is the true def­i­n­i­tion of a man

    I can’t say that I was or thought I was in love at one time.. My last girl­friend and I stayed togeth­er for 7yrs but we only saw each oth­er 3days a week. Friday Saturday and Sunday.. But I think some­thing went wrong with her feel­ings or maybe I gave her to much free­dom to go out and she hooked up with an old­er man with a six fig­ure income who was and still is see­ing some­one while she is dat­ing him. I just don’t get it. But there is some­thing weird going on in her head or maybe she fig­ured this is the only way she will get what she wants.. every­thing at this point in my life real­ly sucks and there unfor­tu­nate­ly are no new prospects in this town. So I guess I need to come up with a new hob­by or 2..

    I know I did­n’t love her but I did con­sid­er her my best friend and me hers but when you out right cheat on some­one and then your con­front­ed and still lie to that per­son even after he proves it to u what the he’ll kind of friend can that be…

  6. It seems love is about mate­r­i­al things more then any­thing else and I’m sor­ry today that if that’s what the women I seem to be attract­ed to want I guess that leaves me with noth­ing. Cause I will not spend what I can’t afford.. Credit cards need to be paid off not added to..

    Guess I should of worked for wall street. Lol.

    • unfor­tu­natly some­times men are like that to. But more mon­ey does not equal hap­pi­ness. Why do so many peo­ple think hav­ing more things or more expen­cive things means more than com­pan­ion­ship? It sucks

  7. I think we all want to believe there is love.…true soul mate cant go on with­out you love…
    But I dont believe it.…

  8. Love is a secu­ri­ty blan­ket for a lot of peo­ple. Or should I say a lot of women.. Where is the males secu­ri­ty it just seems to be one sided.. Man pays for every­thing but does­nt have the secu­ri­ty.. Funny how that works..

  9. There is no such thing as love in today’s soci­ety. It is just anoth­er form of insan­i­ty. For bet­ter or worse, in sick­ness and in health, til death do us part. Here are some hypo­thet­i­cals. That is sup­posed to apply to how much mon­ey you have, or don’t have. Whether or not you are hap­py or sad that you can­not pro­vide for the one you declare your love. If you are in good health or bad health. TO THE END! Best of all, who has more influ­ence over your sup­posed love inter­est. You, or their friends. I am speak­ing from per­son­al expe­ri­ence. It’s too much to ask of any­one to remain true to you if all they wor­ship is mon­ey and mate­ri­al­ism, your feel­ings are always going to be in at least sec­ond place. This coun­try needs a reset.

    P.S. Don’t mar­ry some­one that has bro­ken their back and neck and expect them to be able to do what nor­mal HEALTHY peo­ple can do.

  10. No such thing. We as women are taught there is so we get mar­ried and we are put in our place. It’s a fairy tale that’s it

  11. And the fairy tale lives on. Howard Stern has it right.. What peo­ple are real­ly think­ing.

  12. I’m a teenag­er and I don’t belive in “love”. It’s not because i’ve had heart­break, hell I’ve nev­er even had a boyfriend! From the things I have heard and seen about it, I would not wish that unto myself. I like the idea of it, but not for myself.

  13. Well,u c my whole 25 yrs of life i hav been try­ing to prove ppl dat lov exists, but the world proves me wrong, there is no such thing as love ‚at least not in this cur­rent world, its just a desire-dri­ven world, if they hav the con­vinc­ing and manip­u­la­tion pow­er to prove some­one right is wrong, they win,u lose. I have tried lov­ing ppl just as they are but it turns out, they back­stab any­time. I hav bro­ken all bound­aries in this world (religion,looks,color,behaviour,etc) to try to b in a hap­py relation,not per­fect but just normal.…but i hav bro­ken my heart a dozen times .….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….….now i just dont believe in love.IT JUST DOESNT EXIST !!

  14. I Also dont blv in love either. There is no such a thing like Love, its jst need,
    Someone don’t want to live alone, have its own need ‚which cant be ful­fill alone, so he/she get in to rela­tion­ship. in between if they find some­one else who can ful­fill their need bet­ter, they for­get their ongo­ing rela­tion­ship, go to that new per­son and start rela­tion­ship with that new per­son, and named it as “LOVE”.

  15. love is actu­al­ly depen­dence or lust or both. any­one in a rela­tion­ship is mak­ing it 99% hard­er to know there high­est self and become enlight­ened

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