What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

I have mixed feelings about the short story, although I did really enjoy the writing style because I feel that it naturally flowed and was easy for me to follow. The structure of the story for me was almost as if I was watching a scene from a film. I strongly feel that when it comes to the topic of love too many people feel that it has to be one certain thing; that love is this, and it is not this. I would argue that love has to be defined by the people in the relationship and that with that society should stop imposing their beliefs on other people. The lady within the story that had just cam from an abusive relationship I found her very honest and mature in that she was able to realize that although what she had may not have been conventional love it was still some type of love for her and her boyfriend. Granted, I may look at that relationship and not consider it love but she was completely right when she said that for him that was love. That was the way that he knew to express whatever love he had for her. And truth of the matter is her only options were to either stay with him and accept and embrace that type of love or to believe that, what they shared is not what she would define as love. I do not think that it is fair to pass judgement on people that have lived in or do live in what society considers dysfunctional or unhealthy relationshps. When two people enter a relationship whether it is romantic or not, that relationsip is to be defined by the people in it.