新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第四册 课文 4t01c

[-1:-3.00]In other words,love comes into an imperfect world to make it possible to live.
[-1:-4.00]Love is open.If I love you,
[-1:-5.00]I encourage you to reach out and develop other relationships.
[-1:-6.00]Although our love for each other and our commitment to each other
[-1:-7.00]might prohibit certain actions on our parts,
[-1:-8.00]we are not totally and exclusively married to each other.
[-1:-9.00]It is a false love that cements one person to another in such a way
[-1:10.00]that he or she is not given room to grow.
[-1:11.00]Love is selfish.I can only love you if I genuinely love,
[-1:12.00]value,appreciate,and respect myself.
[-1:13.00]If I am empty,then all I can give you is my emptiness.
[-1:14.00]If I feel that I'm complete and worthwhile in myself,
[-1:15.00]then I'm able to give to you out of my fullness.
[-1:16.00]One of the best ways for me to give you love is by fully enjoying myself with you.
[-1:17.00]Love involves seeing the potential within the person we love.
[-1:18.00]In my love for another,
[-1:19.00]I view her or him as the person she or he can become,
[-1:20.00]while still accepting who and what the person is now.
[-1:21.00]By taking people as they are, we make them worse,
[-1:22.00]but by treating them as if they already were what they ought to be,
[-1:23.00]we help make them better.To sum it up,
[-1:24.00]mature love is union under the condition of preserving one's individuality.