Real Love: Unconditionally caring about the happiness of another person without any thought for what we might get for ourselves. There is only one kind of love—Real Love. Anything we use for a substitute for Real Love is Imitation Love. Through no fault of our own, few of us have either received or given much Real Love, and without it we have a terrible void in our lives.
Imitation Love: When we don’t have enough Real Love in our lives, the resulting emptiness is unbearable. We attempt to fill that emptiness with combinations of the following: Praise, Power, Pleasure, and Safety. Anything we use as a substitute for Real Love is Imitation Love. At best, Imitation Love provides temporary relief without fixing the problem. At worst, it allows us to “get by” and keeps us from looking for the Real Love that will eliminate our anger, confusion, and pain.
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