Nurturing Agape, Our Highest Form of Love
Without this, we can’t experience the deeper connections.
By Dr T J Jordan
Many of us have never experienced real love. That is, love without judgment or hidden agendas, love without a demand that we become something more than we are. Love that is unconditional.
Many of us have missed out on kindness, respect, and full connection because we have mistaken something less for love. We have missed out on intimacy.
We might have fallen into obligation or familiarity, expectation or conformity. We might even have become contractually bound to situations dominated by judgment, punishment, or other forms of emotional abuse.
In our dysfunctional relationships, we don’t get to fully disclose our true identities. We keep an emotional distance because we’re afraid of being hurt or because we don’t know what is possible. In dysfunctional relationships, we don’t learn the meaning of unconditional acceptance — and we certainly don’t receive unconditional love.
Then our attempts to love with our bodies — to have sex — leave us in pain and loneliness. We learn the “wrong” lessons — that love…
