Defining Love

I often sign "I Love you" to my son although I know he is too young to understand what it means. But it got me wondering how when he was old enough to communicate do you define "love"? It's hard enough to define it as an adult to another adult... but to a child who is just learning new concepts how do you define it? How do you explain the difference between the love a parent has for a child and the love a parent has for the other parent? Do you simplify the definition of love as affection towards another person? That would leave you wide open for the child to ask "why?", Why do you show different degrees of affection for one person than another? How is love or affection measured?

I'm sure I'll figure these things out and I'm sure I'd have Amy's help with it as well. It's just something I've been thinking about lately as a new parent. I'm sure every new parent faces similar questions like that. I found it interesting to consider nevertheless.

Relocation

Allow me to introduce myself here. My name is Troy and I'm a single dad with sole custody of my currently 6 month old son, Logan whom I've had sole custody of since he was a week old. It's been both rewarding and challenging experience. This custody arrangement is only temporary as far as my son's mother, Amy and I are concerned. I'm planning to move closer to her and raise our son together. This isn't because I don't feel equal to the task of being a single parent, but rather because I feel it would be in my son's best interest to have both of his parents in his life. Beyond that I'm also deeply in love with Amy and we have a history that spans 15 years. She's the love of my life and I hope that one day in the near future we'll be married.

I don't know where this blog is going to go. I don't know what I'll write about or how often I'll update. I guess it all depends on where my life goes and what motivation I have to write.

I used to keep a blog for about 6 years (different accounts under different SNs) at Journalspace.com which if you type in your address bar and press enter will bring you to a page announcing the termination of the site in question. To those of us who used to blog there, there's no equal. However, a lot of former Journalspace members have ended up here so I too have decided to relocate here. Those of you who know me from Journalspace would know me most recently as TylerDurden there.

Despite mourning the loss of what I would arguably consider to be the best blogging site I've ever come across on the internet, I enjoy the opportunity here for a fresh start... a clean slate with no baggage.

Hopefully I can retain a decent percentage of my old readership as well as acquire some new readers. I'm looking forward to seeing what the future has in store for this new blog.