What is Love?

Try not to confuse "attachment" with "love".  Attachment is about fear and dependency and has more to do with love of self than love of another.  Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because you're empty.  It is about what you can give others because you're already full.  Yasmin Mogahed

Well happy valentine's day!  Today's quote popped up in my queue and I thought, "Why not!" *grin*

When you can love without tying someone to you and trying to tie yourself to someone then you know you are loving in healthy and right ways.  Yes we can be attached but what is the attachment created from?  Chains of fear and co-dependency or "chains" of freedom and unconditional love (which aren't chains at all really)?  When we attach ourselves to someone and call it "love" it is only really love when we are not dependent on them for our emotions, our fulfillment, and our satisfaction.  Those things we can only find in the true source and author of love, God.  Nobody else can provide those for us and when we try to force someone, by attaching ourselves to them, to be those things for us we create chains of fear, insecurity, mistrust, and other unhealthy behaviors.  When we try to be that for someone, by attaching ourselves to them, the same chains are created.  True and healthy love overflows from us once we are tapped in to the only true source and are satisfied in Him.