What is the meaning of love?

Dear Obaa Yaa,

I AM really disturbed about the new meaning of the word ‘Love’ in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship (not in marriage). I feel love should not be based on sexual intercourse.

What do our men mean when they say to a woman ‘I love you’ and what is our women’s understanding of the response ‘I love you too’?

Personally, I have come to understand that most of the time when a man says he loves a woman, all he means and needs is sexual intercourse, and when a woman responds ‘I love you too,’ she also means marriage.

This small research can be confirmed by Walter Trobisch in his book entitled I Married You.

At this juncture, I would like you to use your column to find out from some of our men and women what they really mean when they say to each other ‘I love you.’

Yaa Baby, Takoradi.

Greetings

Dear Yaa Baby,

I MUST say you are quite right to say that the expression of ‘love’ is beginning to take a different meaning.

People seem to have a motive when they say ‘I love you’ to the opposite sex. It may be that they pretend to love just for sex, marriage, or money.

What this does is that the pledge ‘I love you’ leads more gullible partners to disappointment and hurt, while the deceitful partner may also, in the end, fall into their own trap.

So, with the widespread abuse of the phrase ‘I love you,’ men and women should not hasten to believe anyone who says it to them. Even after starting a relationship with their partners, they must continue to observe their actions to ensure the pledge is genuine, not just words.

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