We gloss over our views of Love like a sign along the road. We already know what it says. Do we even see the word STOP? Of course not; we know what it says, what it means. We do the same with Love, but perhaps we are kidding ourselves that we understand it. If we don’t understand Real Love is fierce, we are missing something.

We grow up looking to broken people or images to teach us about Love. We spend more time learning to drive than how to find and keep healthy relationships. Driving carries inherent danger but so do unhealthy or even abusive relationships. We need to pull that into view if we hope to affect change. Most importantly, Real Love is fierce, but we are ignorant of its power.

Same Old Love

I know many people pine for simpler days of the past. I am not one of them. Truthfully, there is no period in history where Love hasn’t been used to steal as much as it was to give. There is no pretending that transactional and abusive counterfeits of Love weren’t expected or even applauded. We can’t even say there have been many sources of the concept of Love without ulterior motives. I would venture to say the concept of a healthy definition of Love has been absent, but we are going to change that.

If we ReThink Love and fuel it with stories of survivors who have seen the carnage of unhealthy versions up close and personal, we are sure to hit a chord that cannot be ignored. There is no hope for passing a better or safer future to the little ones who will follow us if we don’t make a shift in our definition of Love. Taking an innocent heart and wrapping it in toxic messages of aggression, utility and me-first will not fix the abuse or the narcissistic chorus that makes up Love & relationship culture today.

Advocate for Fierce Love

Are you ready to join a fight to spare little hearts and just maybe ours at the same time? We have a vocal community on Instagram where ideas and community drive a movement that believes we can do better. We have a YouTube channel full of videos to help shift views of Love that leave many vulnerable to dark hearts who would happily hurt a soul rather than Love it.

Practical Ideas That Make Love More Magical

If we ReThink our definition of Love, we have power. As long as we define Love as a feeling, we are locked and loaded into the role of bystander. If we choose Love, do Love, we are no longer at its mercy. We cannot find Love; we build it. It is not a passing fancy or a weak foundation like attraction. Real Love is solid and can hold the weight of life if we let it. It can and will grow more lovely with time if we understand what it is and cannot be.

Most importantly, we have the power in our hands to spare our hearts and the hearts that will come up after us. The rates of abuse are frightening for the teen population:

Nearly 1 in 11 female and approximately 1 in 14 male high school students report having experienced physical dating violence in the last year

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/teendatingviolence/fastfact.html

Think about those numbers, this is wounding hearts before they even begin to become independent. For this reason, It’s time to make the shift, but it can’t be a few of us. It is in all of our hands. I hope you will consider joining us in the fight for Real Fierce Love! This is a movement for parents, for teens, for teachers, for all of us!

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