Do you?

Love.
What a vague, generalized term.
I love my new outfit. I love my job. I love my home. I LURVE my children!
How can one word have so many different intensities, meanings, applications?
How can one word be so obvious, yet so difficult to understand?
How can one word represent a universal desire or need that is innate to all of us?

ALL of us.

We are born with this yearning - to know, feel and give love.
It's not just a human trait, but animals seek it as well.
In its absence, we fail to thrive.

I am fortunate enough to have experienced all forms of love yet I seek an even greater knowledge of the word. I want to know love outside of myself but yet I want someone to give that in return. Is this my fairy tale fallacy? I'm not really talking about happily ever after but rather acceptance ever after. Awareness of each others strengths and weaknesses with a willingness to accept each other and deal with the inadequacies and vulnerabilities we all face at one time or another.

Intimacy in physical form should be secondary to true transparency in the emotional sense. The ability to see ALL of each other and be truly uncovered but yet still comfortable with that awareness would be ideal. I seek authenticity in a man - not just as it pertains to me but also to others. No masks, no pretentions. Just...... REALness.

Needle in a haystack, maybe. Possible? Absolutely. I believe. Do you?