“Love is Jealous” A Misconception Widely Accepted - Counselor Sandra Akua Akude

 “Love is Jealous” This misconception is widely accepted and used because it’s believed that, what you love must be guided and protected jealously. This is not a wrong view though, but the question is; how can this jealousy be measured?












Most times the act of jealousy breaks its bounds like a collapsed dam; the water gushes out and destroys everything on its path; It spreads like wildfire and ruins things that were built over the years in a twinkle of an eye. 


There have been so many crimes, murders, suicides and wars as a result of jealousy. 
Does guiding and protecting someone jealously define love?
We need to ask ourselves, could jealousy which is very destructive give the meaning of love?


Another misconception of love is that “love is blind”. This is not just a physical blindness but also the blindness of the sight of the mind. This is a very popularly used cliché. Because most people believe it takes blindness to be tolerant. 
Majority of Juvenile delinquencies are as the result of parental negligence, Such parents assumes that turning a blind eye to the wrongs their children do is an act of showing them Love. 


On the other hand, those dating and some couples are also of the view that the best way of showing love to their mates or spouses is by turning blind eyes to all their wrongs, errors and weakness. From experience, I’ve discovered that, there is a thin line between tolerance and ignoring wrong.  A lot of individuals and families are so much confused about these two distinctive words. 

For clarification, let’s have a look at the definitions:  
Starting with tolerance. “Tolerance is the ability or willingness to accommodate the existence of opinions, behaviour that one dislikes or disagrees with. While ignoring is refusing to take notice of or acknowledge. It is disregarding intentionally. 

Tolerance involves analysis, understanding and acceptance. Whereas, Ignoring is turning a blind eye to something without acknowledging and understanding it. 
Ignoring or turning of blind eye which is assumed to be best expression of love, gives rise to ill-mannered children; shattered home; bad leaderships and perverse society.

Awful behaviours and attitudes cannot be corrected or managed by turning a blind eye to them. 
This brings us back to the search for the true and practical definition of love. 

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