Hate the saying " if you love someone then you should let them go. lol

United States
January 23, 2011 1:25pm CST
Who in the everlasting heck came up with that saying and what exactly was he or she implying here people. No No No if I really love somebody I don't want to see them go in the first place duh! If I love somebody I can't let them go its just not love if you can say goodbye. I want that Titanic love, Jack love her and he said never say goodbye or something. So I can't relate to that saying, matter of fact lets lose that saying and come up with a new one like, " If you love someone than you would rather lose your everything before you let them go."
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14 responses
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
hello brettregistre! when you love someone and enters into a relationship with them,it is always (mostly anyway) with the thought that it is for keeps. When both party involved loved each other very much and wants to spend their lifetime together, then this saying does not apply at all. What it does apply to however are situations wherein only one of the two is in love or both might be in love but one or the other might want to do something for his/her own gratification that will not involve the other person. For instance, you have fallen in love with someone who is not in love with you, then it would be better if you will let that someone go rather than imprison him/her with your love. When you love someone you would always want their happiness and if you're not making them happy then it is better to just let them go.
• United States
24 Jan 11
Thats another good way to look at it. You really made me think about it, and now I can say that maybe there's some things in life we have to let go to fully understand what it is that we had or have. Maybe its just my type of love, I guess I have that selfish type of love , maybe because i'm one in a million. :)
• Philippines
25 Jan 11
Hi Brett Yeah you right, why do you have to let go of someone you love. But you know love is a two way relationship, it is not enough that you love her, she should be able to give back the love you have for her. If not, you are not in a win-win situation, so better yet release her and let her find her happiness in the same way that you going to find you happiness. At first, it is not easy but as you go along, it will.I have been to such situation and I even felt i'd die, but in the end,I'm still here more positive and i appreciate life more now.
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
We have different interpretation of this sentence.For me these words means literally. If you have love someone so much but that someone falls out of love for you because of something you did to him/her and she /he wants to go or whatever.If you have done all things or you have both tried everything just to save your union you must let her/him go if you really love him/her.
@jennbart (1330)
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
Maybe try to fight for the person you love first. If things wont go well, then that's the time that we can let go.In that way, there wont be no regrets as we tried to make things work than let go without a fight at all!:)
@koikei (206)
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
greetings! sometimes love just ain't enough, LOL. i think it applies to people who love each other, but they have to pursue something else at the moment, which they feel is much more important. if you want the other person to grow, then you let them go, and one day if you're really meant to be together, you'd get back again
@annie_ako (102)
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
i actually do that thing.. :) if i see that the boy i love is happy with the other girl, so why do i keep on holding on?hmp..i mean i'd rather let him go and let him to be happy than acting that im happy in spite of the sadness that i feel.. "it's better to give than to receive".. :(
@maean_19 (4655)
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
Hi Brett! The saying is not a heck or senseless. It is just how you interpret it is shallow. Of course, who would let go of someone you love when the relationship is strong and firm? Will you let go of someone you love who is loving you as well? A big NO of course because there is no issue to consider. The saying then is not applicable to such kind of relationship. More so, the saying of letting go of someone you love applies to a relationship when that someone you love is loving someone else or happy with that someone. Or the degree of your love aren't the same. If that is the case, would you hold of someone you love who does not love you back or who is happy with someone else? It is a selfish thing if you don't let go, right? You may fight for that love in a while, but can you hold on to it forever when you cannot force that someone to love you back? Therefore I say my friend that the saying is sensible it is just how you interpret it.
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
Greetings! I agree that its hard to let go if you love someone. Its really really hard but if I love someone and he doesn't love me, then I can say that its time for me to let him go because he wouldn't be happy with me. I love him so I'll let him to be happy with someone else because I love him. I don't want to see him sad with me. I would rather choose to let him be happy with someone else. Well, if I love someone and he loves me too then I wouldn't let that person go? :)
• China
23 Jan 11
lol?? You think it's very easy to say. No my dear friend it's not so easy if there is love. But still people say this that because still true love exist. Love means not only think about ownself it means think about that person whom you love so much. If that person don't want to stay with you or not happy with you and she/he wants to go then we should let them go as then they will be happy.
@knicnax (2233)
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
Me too. Sounds really stupid. Though it does happen that sometimes, the person they love does come back, but it's not always true. Love and life isn't a fairytale. We should stop wishing that it is like once. If you love someone, you'll fight. Of course you don't want to lose the one you love. Who wants to lose the one they love? No one does! Though, there are times wherein we really have to let go, and to help us let go, we just think that "I love him so I'll let him go". It's an excuse to appease our broken heart,
@saihai (128)
• India
24 Jan 11
I do not know who came up with this saying but he never said that what we will do if our love does not come back :P So i would always prefer to hold her back till my last breath! If i love someone it does not necessary she will love me back but at least she cant ask me to stop loving her as well!
• Philippines
24 Jan 11
I do believe in this saying but it really is a matter of what situation are you in. It's like if you are in a situation wherein you love someone so much but everything is in the wrong place and wrong time, that is the best advice, you just don'y let go of a person for no good reason at all.
@Bloonana (36)
• United States
23 Jan 11
It means, if you love someone, but they don't love you, you should let them be with someone else who makes them happy. If you really loved someone, you would want them to be happy, whether that came from being with you or someone else. If the person is happy with you, duh, don't let them go, but if they don't want to be with you, you should let them go.
@dellmore (84)
• United States
23 Jan 11
it's true though. You have to get to a point where you realize you can't be together and want them to move on and find the person that they were meant for yahh know