Can love change you?
HAVE you ever had a friend or someone close to you literally just change before your eyes once they fell in love? For some, this change can be like watching a rainbow come out after a rainy day or watching a rose grow through the crack of a concrete pavement – so graceful and beautiful. But some changes can be compared to watching a show like The Walking Dead, where the people turn into zombies and no longer have a mind of their own.
For others this change can be seen as an elevation, a rise to higher heights where the person in love now looks down on those who are out of love and consider them to be peasants in their royal love kingdom.
But did love change these people or were they naturally like this before and being in a relationship brought this side of their personality to the forefront?
Zenorah:
Yes, being in love changes some people. Love has some people running around like mad ants, not knowing their head from their toes. It’s just the excitement of it finally happening – them being in love.
Stephen:
It depends on the person. For some it’s just who they are; that side of them was always there but it only surfaces when they are in a relationship. But some people do lose themselves when they are in a relationship as they become not an ‘I’ or ‘me’, but ‘we’ or ‘us’. It’s sad to see because these are the same people who struggle to find themselves when the relationship ends.
Karine:
I had a friend who fell in love and trust me, she was annoying. She went above and beyond for this man and when we spoke to her about the changes we saw in her, she cursed us out telling us that we were bad mind and jealous because she had a man and we were single and unhappy. She even went on to say how her man looked better than any man we could dream of having. I never spoke to her again, but I heard the man got her pregnant and left her.
Ryan:
My brother changed when he met his girl. I was happy for him but he was no longer my outspoken, blunt brother. He became like a ‘yes man’ behind this girl. I saw him doing things that I never thought he’d do, all in the name of love.
Jasmine:
I don’t think love changes people, I think people are who they are. But love does have the ability to bring out a different side of your personality.
