Questions about love, affection and human survival
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:37 pm
This question has to do with my concerns with marriage, dating, friendship, relationship and so on. I was wondering, from a Christian world view standpoint, can people not live long or survive long without love and affection from other people? I mean, is it possible for single people who live away from family, never communicate with their family, or (God forbid) do not have any family members alive or have lovers in their life, to live without being told or shown that they are loved? I say this because even though I still live close to my family, my family is rather cold and distant, they treat me kind and humanely, but they never try to show me any love and affection since I've become a grown adult. Because of the economy and my inability to find a large income, I haven't been able to find a potential wife and because of moral degradation among people in my age group and the fact that the very few good women in my age group are already married (Conservative Christian women from what I've seen tend to get married in their late teens early twenty's) I currently don't see myself ever settling down with a woman anytime soon. So to keep myself from dying young what possible source can I turn to for love? Since I have very few real friends (most of them are acquaintances or people whom I do business with) and today's Internet culture makes people more unfriendly, cold and impersonal and society seems to be getting more and more like that with every passing year. About the only option I know of is to turn to God for that love and affection, but how do I get Him to move in that area of my life? What do I do if somehow He wants me to just be strong than the average person and somehow endure the rest of my life without love? What if He does want to show me love and affection but I can never tap into it like many charismatic believers can? From some of my science study, I've been told that love or the feeling of love is a combination of certain chemicals in the brain (and I assume this is coming from a naturalistic perspective). But if somehow this is indeed a major factor, what are the chemicals and how do I properly and legally obtain them and properly ingest them? But I hope not to get that desperate, I hope you can offer me some ideas on how to either develop better social skills with people or better tap into one on one communication with God. Thank you and God bless.