Is it True Love?
February 10, 2010 by adavant
Filed under Alyssa's Journal, What's New
Likely, if you have a teenage daughter, then you’ve experienced talking with them about “love”.
Are they in “love”?
Do they want to fall in love?
Are they experiencing what some of us might call “puppy love”?
One or all of these things “might” be the case, but none the less it is an important time for them and as moms we must be prepared to deal with and talk about the subject that we know is more than fuzzy feelings and butterflies in the stomach – L-O-V-E.
Love for us as humans is difficult to define. We know that God is love and that his gift of his only Son Jesus on the cross was the greatest sacrifice of love we will ever know, but we may often wonder, how we can understand this on a human level and how it relates to what we know and feel as “romantic” love or even “friendship” love. The truth is there are many different kinds of and levels of love, all of which we must learn to feel and understand as we grow older. And to be honest, the older you get the more you understand it, wouldn’t you agree?
So, how do you help your daughter to differentiate between what they know and understand as the love you have for them, or the love God has for them and the love they have for their friends or that they “think” they have for a member of the opposite sex?
As we celebrate Valentine’s this weekend, and this month is all about “love”, it is important to remember that when we talk to our daughters about love and what “true” love is, that we point out, if she is of the appropriate age that love does NOT equal sex.
In our society unfortunately teens are being led to believe more and more each day that if someone loves you, you have sex with them. This is leading to not only broken hearts, but broken futures. We must educate our daughters about the true meaning of love and instill confidence in them that will help them to stand for their own convictions about the Biblical meaning of love and what it can mean in their lives.
Check out our Mom-Daughter True Love Waits Guide to start the conversation on this important topic with your daughter today.
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