Love does NOT hurt.

All the songs and poems moaning the pains of love and I bought it. Love hurts. We teach it to each other all our lives and the older we get the more shy many are of caring again. They can't take the pain, the hurt to their heart will be too much to bear, they say.

They are wrong.

Loving does not hurt.

Repeating: Love does NOT hurt.

It won't hurt your heart - ever - to love.

What hurts is having to stop loving.
What hurts is when you can't love anymore.
What hurts is when one you love is gone, or doesn't love you anymore.

Stopping love hurts.

Loving doesn't.

I have hurt from being left, having someone die, dogs getting run over, cats the same, kids moving away, and more. I have hurt in love before. But it is NOT the love that hurt. It's trying to let go of the love that hurts.

I don't know how to tell you how that thought - love does not hurt - spun my head. I am stunned by how backwards we got it. Love does not hurt.

Don't stop loving; Stopping the love hurts.