Is it possible to hate someone and love them at the same time.

I’m guessing you haven’t seen married with children.

@PretentiousArtist I have ): BUT I was talking outside of Hollywood.

The world isn’t black and white.
The ones closest to you will hurt you the most and the ones closest to you are the ones you’ll hurt the most.

I’m guessing you’ve never been married.

Once you have emotions invested in someone, it is easier to go to extremes, because they mean something to you.
Been there, hated it, bought postcards.

It is so easy that it is frightening.

@chyna We (as in my peer mediation class) were discussing the dynamics of relationships. The counselor told us how it’s always love, struggle, love, hate, struggle, love etc.
I don’t want to get married.

Absolutely. That’s how I feel about my dog who destroys freakin’ everything.

Yes. They are both very strong emotions that allow the person to have a significant place in your life. A person who important to you can bring out one or both of them easier than you might think.

@naivete Marriage need not be a trap. Love is supposed to liberate, not enslave.

@The_Compassionate_Heretic I still don’t want to get married. I’ll love.. but I wont get married. I’ll love and stay in the same house but I will not get into a formal legal arrangement. I also wont stay with someone longer than 5 years. Haha.

Hate is another form of love, or so I’ve heard.

@naivete Never say never. No one knows for sure what the future holds.

@naivete I know plenty of people who have been together for years and are perfectly happy not being married. Love needs not law to recognize it.

@Chyna

I do not wish to get married. Better? :P
I do not plan to get married? Hmm…

@The_Compassionate_Heretic Agreed.

@naivete Better. Just be happy in all your endeavors

Very much so.

I think in order to hate something you have to care about it so much that in the right circumstance, you would actually love it instead. Not only do I believe that you can love and hate something at the same time, I think it’s impossible to hate without love. The opposite of both of these is not one another, it’s indifference.

The more you ruv someone, the more you want to kirr them.

I laughed when I read @chyna ‘s first response. I often love/hate him, like when I find his dirty clothes on top of the hamper and not in it, or empty milk bottles in the fridge??? And I am sure he has a list of things I do as well.

Sadly yes.

Yep if you have siblings you’d know. Or family in general, especially mine though currently there’s more hate than love. I refuse to talk to one of my family members and I have a whole side of my family that won’t talk to me not because I did anything wrong I was five or six, but it’s all because of a family fued. Trust me when I say I know what I’m talking about it’s more than possible it’s an everyday occurence.

@dogkittycat welcome to fluther. Lurve.