If you had to pay $5000 to tell someone you loved them, what would you do?

1. I ain’t prone to saying such things (at least not seriously saying that).
2. I’ll never collect that much money.
3. Love can be expressed without cheesy lines.

Why would I want to pay that much money, just to lie to someone?

Well, I certainly wouldn’t pay them $5,000! Hell, at that point, I’d just scream it at them on principle whether I did or not. How could they stop me?

What stops one from doing anything?

Yes people would pay me so much money I’d be rich. I have a lot of love in my life. Would I pay that amount to tell someone? Of course. I love my mom and dad the most. I’d spend whatever fortune to tell them that. Love is priceless. So the love knows no limits (in response to your question). Hypothetically speaking. I’d also tell my cat I love her (she’s like my child since I’m still young and don’t have any kids). And if I had to spend a fortune to save someone’s life that I love, of course I would do that as well.

I’d find a way to show them so that I didn’t have to tell them.

@Patton how would you feel if someone paid to tell you?

It would depend on the circumstances. Perhaps they are overseas and for some reason they cannot come to me (incarcerated, in poor health). If paying $5000 allowed me to say “I love you” and I did love them, I might very well pay that money.

Perhaps the person has some form of disability that has prevented us communicating. If there is now some technology that would allow me to communicate with them and I loved that person, again, I might very well be prepared to pay $5000 to say I love you. For instance, perhaps my child has very severe autism, and some new technology provides an opportunity to reach them in a meaningful way, maybe I would pay the money to be able to reach my child and let them know how loved they are.

What is the $5000 for? Why can I not tell the person I love them? There are too many unknowns to give a blanket yes or no.

Saying the words are cheap. I would rather do something for them worth more than $5000. I would hope those who love me would do the same.

How is this different from any other sort of prostitution?

The requirement is to pay some amount of money in order to gain some sort of emotional/sexual release. That, boys and girls, is prostitution.

For that matter, it’s no different from a woman saying “I won’t sleep with you until I have an engagement ring”. Except engagement rings cost more than $5000.

As soon as you monetize something like this, it’s pure and simple a financial, not an emotional transaction.

Haha, no, never, in a million years. Can’t buy me love.

Ok, let’s say you can only love someone through pain. That is what pregnancy is afterall. Think of it that way. Now what would you endure to have the right to say you loved someone?

^ Pregnancy isn’t pain, it is a few hours of pain giving birth but that is all and one does not feel love for an unborn child. You may feel excited, anticipating the big arrival, but I wouldn’t call it “love.” You can’t love something you have never met yet.
I would endure nothing at this stage of the life game, romantic love is not at all something important to me anymore, been there, done that, and it is an illusion.

True love has nothing to do with giddy romantic emotional states and besides, love isn’t about enduring anything, that is a false and damaging concept and a highly codependent one as well. Real love has nothing to do with suffering, sacrifice, misery and angst, all of which are part of dysfunctional relationships not “love.”

I loved my kid before he was born, no doubt. I also felt love for and protective of my step son when I met him. As a parent, you do sacrifice and work hard for your kids, but if you start keeping a scorecard about how much pain they put you through, you’re doing it wrong. I love the kids I work with and feel incredibly protective of them. Suffering doesn’t give ‘rights’ to say you loved someone. I get paid for my job. Not suffering there, at all, and I wish everyone could feel the love and joy I get to ‘endure’ everyday at work.

As for ‘romantic’ love, it’s a crap shoot and mostly just illusion. You can either tolerate a person, or you can’t. You are a tolerable person, or you aren’t. I look at some of these really old couples that have been together for ages and am amazed. They are such kind people. They are kind to each other and to everyone around them. That type of kindness is disappearing and I think it is sad. Love isn’t about suffering. Love is about kindness. Love isn’t about showing you are worthy, love is something YOU do, every day. EVERY DAY practice kindness and love and then, if you’re really lucky, you’re on a park bench holding hands some someone you tolerate and can tolerate you when you’re 80 years old.