TED演讲：如何知道他/她是否真的爱你？
在一段感情中，人们总是容易缺乏安全感，怀疑自己的伴侣是否真的爱着自己。
如何辨别一个人是否真心爱着自己呢？是相信他们的话语，还是观察他们的行为？
比起这些，对方为自己的做出的牺牲和选择也许才是最直接的表达爱意的行为，但这也绝对不是判断的唯一标准，或者索取别人好意的借口。
演讲者：Femi Ogunjinmi
一名认证的生活教练、国际关系教练、获奖励志演说家和电台脱口秀主持人，十多年来一直致力于改善单身人士和情侣的生活。
By show of hands, how many of you have ever gotten in a relationship because you felt that you were in love? Very good. Good.
How many of you’ve ever broken up and say to the person you don’t deserve me? Uh-huh.
As a matter of fact, I don’t even know how I fell in love with you in the first place. Oh, I know you were drunk in love, right?
In my line of field, as a relationship coach, clients come to me with their love problems. One client wants me to evaluate her relationship. She’s being with her boyfriend for over four years. There is no promise ring, no engagement ring, no conversation about wedding.
And on top of it is cheating on her. She wants to know if she should continue with the relationship or kick the guy to the curb.
So I asked her: “How many times has he cheated on you?”
She says at least four times. When a lady says at least four times, multiply that by 2 – 8 times.
“Do you love him?”
“Yes”, she replies.
“Does he love you?”
“He says he does but his action does not show it.”
“What action specifically?”
“The cheating”.
“If you loved someone, would you cheat on them? If you truly loved someone, would you cheat on them at least four times, multiplied by 2?”
She says no.
Well if your answer is no, then you know what to do. True love that is not backed up by the right action is not true love.
Another client says he’s happy in his relationship. He loves his girl but he’s cheating on the side with a married woman. And they are both in love together. And he does not know how he got himself in this situation.
I said you know how you got yourself in this mess. You shifted your focus from your girl to someone else. You divided your attention and your emotions.
Someone who used to owe the first priority on your heart no longer hold that position. That’s how you got yourself in this mess.
“So what do you want to do?”
He says he would like the married woman to be able to manage the situation.
“What do you mean by this?”
“Well, every time the woman is with her husband, she always thinks about him, and does not want the husband to get suspicious so that he does not stop the affair.”
I’m like, wait a minute. So you want to continue having this affair with this woman? He says yes.
Really? How would your girlfriend feel about this? Put yourself in her shoes. You have a boyfriend who says he is happy with you, is in love with you but at the same time he’s cheating with someone else that is falling in love with him? Can you actually love two people at the same time?
He says I don’t want any changes. I just want the situation to remain the same. I want to keep both women in my life.
I said wow, you are just like McDonald’s slogan. You are loving it; aren’t you?
Love is powerful.
According to a survey, about 9 out of 10 Americans cited love as an important factor to get married. Past statistics show that 50% of first marriages, 67% of second marriages, and a staggering high of 73% of third marriages end up in divorce.
The question is: if love is an important factor that influences people to get married, how come it does not hold the marriage?
HOW COME IT DOES NOT HOLD THE RELATIONSHIP TOGETHER?
When we examine love in a breakup, I believe one of three things has happened. It’s either one: there was no love at the beginning of the relationship to start with.
Two, there was something bigger than the love that broke the relationship.
Or, three, the love declined.
I can understand when you feel like your love is depreciating, and you tell your partner I just don’t love you right now, especially when you are having a meal together.
And your partner becomes inquisitive to ask why, because he just ate the last piece of the pie. If you love me you will let me have it. That’s what you say right ladies.
At the same token, I believe there is nothing bigger than love that can break a relationship. Absolutely nothing. If the couple truly loves each other.
And that is what I want to talk to you about today.
TRUE LOVE
There are different types of love out there. You have the Filial Love which is brotherly love. It is what you share with your family, friends or colleagues.
Another one is Eros. It’s a sexual type of love. It gives the feelings of arousal. This is what you feel when you see a beautiful sexy person just walking pass.
And you’re like, oohh… you cannot stop looking at them. You cannot hold yourself together. You begin to fantasize and have all kind of imagination about that person. You are having Eros type of love.
The next one is what Mary J. Blige called Real Love. Y’all know the song real love, oh I’m searching for real love. So I want to make my heart feel real love… and we are still trying to understand what she meant by real love.
You see all these types of love cannot sustain a relationship. They cannot hold a relationship together. But true love which the Bible also describes as Agape Love can hold a relationship together, can keep a relationship for a long haul.
WHAT IS TRUE LOVE?
True love is passionate love. You have two independent words: passion and love fused together to make a strong definition. Passion is the force that drives the love for something. It’s default that keeps love going.
Love without passion is like a body without a soul. It’s like a car without an engine, no movement would happen.
And just in case, you are wondering how you can tell if someone truly loves you, or if you truly love someone? Sacrifice.
Sacrifice for one another will indicate if you truly love each other. And sacrifice is given up something for another thing that is far more important, just like giving up that piece of pie for your girl, that is far more important.
Or it’s the release of something in your possession in an exchange for another thing that you love.
This is exactly what God did when he released and sacrificed his only son Jesus just to have us. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.
God demonstrated true love, Agape love — love filled with passion and sacrifice.
I had an opportunity to demonstrate my true love. I was in college. I enjoyed galvanizing people for networking and I do this by throwing parties.
And if you know one thing about throwing parties, the more women you have there, the more men want to come in, spend money at the bar, buy drinks, pop bottles.
So my goal every time is to have as many ladies at the party. This, however, opens the door to always have women around me.
I remember after throwing a party three women that do not know each other say they want to spend in the house. They wake up in the morning. One begins to feed me breakfast. The second one gets jealous. She goes into the kitchen, grabs food, comes back, she starts to feed me.
The third one looking like this is crazy, should I join the party or what?
I’m thinking to myself it’s on a dream but no it’s a reality. I’m like you have up in my house with the bunnies.
But that reality was short-lived as I meet a girl that I’m truly in love with. And she’s truly in love with me as well.
But she does not like the lifestyle that I’m living. She does not want to compete with any other woman. This is a deal-breaker for her. And of course, it’s off situation for me, because that means I’m going to have to give up throwing parties and spending time with other women so that I can have and keep her.
So I begin to analyze the situation: what am I going to do, who or what should I pick? Her over them or them over her?
This is my Kairos moment, my moment of decision. This is where true love and sacrifice come into play.
So I made a decision and the sacrifice to give up both throwing parties and spending time with other women, so that I can have and keep this girl that I’m truly in love with.
A few years later, we got married and we have two beautiful amazing children together.
You see true love is the only type of love that can keep and sustain a relationship. It will help you to make the ultimate sacrifice to give up playing games, quit destructive habits, and seek counseling when you can, to acquire tools and knowledge in order for you to have a healthy relationship.
Because of the love problems that people are having is the reason why I wrote my book Revelations of Relationship: What You Don’t Know About Finding True Love and Sustaining Relationship.
I want to admonish you all to find and practice true love in your relationship.
Cheers to your improvement.
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