Ashley Charisma

"If you can't love a person through their complexities, let them go so that they can experience love in its entirety." That's the thought that came to me today. It reminded me of a promise that I made to myself, that when I stopped making someone happy or being a positive experience for them, that even if I didn't plan a permanent goodbye, that at least a brief separation was necessary sometimes in order to remind me and that person of why we entered each others lives in the first place. Its when you stay and watch each other die that I feel becomes a selfish disregard for the purest love and respect that you have for each other.

To be happily, mutually and exclusively in love is my favorite state of being. To see that same experience being shared between others is one of my favorite sights. If those moments could last forever, the world would probably be a better place and I'd have no reason to tattoo "Make Love, Not War" across my belly. (what? I needed something to cover up Thug Life!)

I love couples who have been together for decades. I study them hoping to learn the secret or magic formula to making it work for so long. A couple of my friends have parents who have been married for a minute and they still give each other the side eye and the bedroom eye all in one conversation.