There are many kinds of love. Often, Cupid, symbolizing love, is depicted with a blindfold on, and ve can be blind. But everyone wants to find happiness and wants it to last. There are also the able, unforeseen changes in physical shape as well as in character because of exposure to certain ions when one is getting older. Blindness is sometimes caused by a tendency to attribute all kinds d, but non-existing qualities, to the object of one’s affections. There are also those who are “falling e with love” as the old song goes, especially if one has the need to give, to help, and to nurture. t qualifies as “blind love,” or being too young, too hasty or... pressured by immigration issues. Two days after my graduation from college, I married an American citizen on my student visa. I ceived a notice that I had to leave the country and apply for another visa and a green card. That e very complicated because I was born in the Netherlands but of a Belgian father, so my ality was Belgian. The U.S. Immigration Service said I should apply for a spot on the crowded ality. A change in the U.S. immigration rules was called for, eeping the newlyweds separated for weeks with an ocean in en. I had gone home to the lowlands while I waited for the nd my green card. I got them. Happiness was mine, even h I was unaware of the many hurdles of marrying a medical nt that lay ahead of me. However, years later and wiser, I was not blind to the omings of the Tomek House that we bought after we had married eighteen years. Now, I have learned that it makes to live together for about two years before making such a s commitment as marriage. Then you can really get to know ther, to get acquainted with each other’s flaws, as well as mpromises that you should be willing to live with. Are you g to put up with bad table manners or with a voice or an you really dislike? Is there a preference for a more ample, rly figure instead of a lean, athletic one that cannot be ed, even by eating oatmeal, whipping cream and ice cream?
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