Love is Pie?

My husband called me a little while ago and told me about an interesting thing he'd heard on the radio. They were talking about a common problem among women, that they feel like they have only a certain amount of love to give. He said they were comparing it to a pie and once the slices were gone, that was it. Jason wanted to call and see what I thought about that. He said that he's never seen me act that way but apparently, according to the expert on the show, I'm in the minority. The way I see it, if you're raised Mormon or in any other Christian-based faith, we're taught that the Lord loves us all equally. If we're made in his image, doesn't that include our hearts and capacity to love? One thing that Jason said really stood out is women were calling in and talking about if their husbands spent too much time with family or friends, they felt like it took away from them. Like if he loved his mother, it meant he loved them less. This is an interesting thing to think of. I did some research and found a book called 'Love and The Capacity to Love' it goes more into the scientific reasons behind why we love and the different forms of love (love for a parent, love for a child, romantic love).
"The capacity to love and be loved is now viewed as an innate, species-typical tendency that has powerful effects on psychological and physical health from infancy through old age. It has also been established that this capacity can be affected in deep and lasting ways by early relationship experience” Peterson and Seligman. What all the articles and quotes I found talked about was how to nurture love and how love can shift as your relationships with those around you change but nothing was ever said that we have a limit for love. I was just wondering what other people thought about this.



Naturally, talking about love gets me thinking about these two kids. They will always be my boys and my only biological kids. But that doesn't mean they'll be my only children. No matter how many children we add to our family, it won't change how I feel about these two and the children joining our family will never feel like they're getting a smaller piece of the "pie". The way I see it, we may not physically carry all our our children but that doesn't mean they're not family.

Blood only goes so far, but unconditional love goes the distance. After this life, no one will care who's related to whom and where your family came from, the only thing that will matter is how you treated those around you. Whether it was with love or not. We're told to even love our enemies. If we really had a limit for love, the Lord would never tell us to waste on those who've slighted us.

Okay, I'm going to climb off my pedestal now, everyone can see up my skirt. :)