Sting

There is the concept that if you love somebody enough to let them be happy you'd be willing to let them go. Then there are the controdictions that that you can love somebody so much that you can't live without them. I suppose that every person is different and thus the way that love goes can't be written up as a chapter in a school book.

With so many variations on the theme of love are there any actual rules that must be abided? Do we just come to understand these rules or do some evade even the greatest of lovers, or maybe they all just evade me . . . ?

Also comes the question, who gave up, the one that left or the one that let go? Can the two stay together but still be appart? To set somebody free because you want them to be happy, but then keep them so close because you want to be happy as well, is that fair? to you? Keep them close enough that when the time is actually right you can just reach out and pull them back in?