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| Story ID: | 2154 |
| Written by: | Veronica Elizabeth Foust (bio, contact, other stories) |
| Story type: | Story |
| Writers Conference: | $500 2007 Family Memories Writing Project |
| Location: | Greensboro North Carolina USA |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Person: | Veronica Foust |
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Visitors| I have been doing a lot of thinking these days about what true love really is and I must say that it is hard to explain. I often wonder how my daughter says she loves me but can't forgive me for my past. I believe that she does not love me unconditionally. I have been able to realize that she can't forgive or foeget the mistakes I made in my past. But I also realize that I did my best to reach out to her and now it is up to her how our relationship goes from here. I think about my first love and finally understand that he never really loved me but used me and that I was such a fool. I was a young girl who fell in love at a young age and I really did not know what true love was. I now know that it was not just having sex with someone and creating children that you could not take care of. There is a lot more to true love than that. My mother was a great woman because she loved people uncontionally no matter how they treated her and it takes a special kind of person to do that. True love comes from deep in the heart and is genuine. A mother has true love for her children from the day they are concieved and no matter what they do a mother always loves her children but she can't make them love her in the same way. You always hear that true love is hard to find but sometimes we find it when we are not even looking for it. I really feel I left home at 14 looking for love and I was vulnerable to the first person who came along and acted like he loved me but he did not truly love me he just wanted to have sex with me. only problem for me was I fell in love with him and did not realize until it was too late that he did not love me. I was so foolish to keep hanging on to the hope that he would one day fall in love with me. If I only knew then what I have learned over the last 20 years of my life. |
