• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content

Suzanne Maiden

The stories I have to tell...

  • Home
  • Book
  • About
  • Grief Guide – Start Here
    • First To Do’s
    • 1 Begin
    • 2 Support
    • 3 Balance
    • 4 Listen
    • 5 Suicide
    • 6 Judging
    • 7 Emotional Parasites
    • 8 Comforting Rituals
You are here: Home / Behaviors / When Love is Irrational

When Love is Irrational

November 15, 2008 by admin 5 Comments

By:  Suzanne Maiden 

Have you ever loved someone and it makes no sense?  I recently had a client who stated that he loves a woman with such fervor and such frenetic intensity that throughout the session he repeatedly asked me if he were sane.  I reassured him, that his sanity was well intact.  He struggled to wrap his mind around having profound feelings for another when it felt irrational to his cognitive side.  This man could not make logical sense of why he could have such profound and deep feelings for a woman that appeared incongruent with his internal checklist.  Have you ever loved another and it makes no sense? 

Sometimes love is irrational.  Sometimes love makes no sense.  Sometimes love does not care about age difference, or ethnicity, or physical criteria, or health, or money; love does not care if it violates your mental checklist.  Love is non-discriminatory.  Love Just Is.  Love expresses itself without our permission, without our conscious consent, and without our logical cognition.  Love insists on being acknowledged.  Love wants expression.  

Love wants a voice – which may be nothing more than a divine whisper.  Loving another can never be wrong.  Love is the closest emotion to the divine we can express as spiritual beings who temporarily have a human experience.  Love is the Alpha and Omega.  Love is trump.   

Filed Under: Behaviors, Relationships

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Denise says

    November 17, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Great to see you writing again –

    Reply
  2. Kristin says

    November 24, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Yes, love is so damn irrational. I still find myself remembering the irrational, crazy love of the one other man than my husband. That whisper is softer now, just something that makes me remember how much more fun it is, at times, the love for my husband. Much love Dear Zanny!

    Reply
  3. Zanny says

    November 25, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    Yes, Kristin – oh so true. Love just is – even when unbeckoned and unwanted… Thanks for writing.

    Reply
  4. walker says

    April 6, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    you’ve got a good point 😀

    Reply
  5. Stephanie says

    September 15, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    These words were exactly what I was looking for, today. Thank you so much

    Reply

Leave a Reply to walker Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Help stop Spam * Time limit is exhausted. Please reload CAPTCHA.

Before Footer

My Blog Posts by Category

  • Home
  • Grief Guide – Start Here
  • SIB – Self Injurious Behavior

Copyright © 2025 · Wellness Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in