Better To Have Loved And Lost Or Not Loved?

When men fall in love I think it is a totally different experience than when a woman falls in love.

Well, at least the after effect is different. Women, I think, are more likely to desire love again. For fellas, I am not so sure. It seems like they are wounded birds forever.

One fella told that he was completely bare, stripped down and vulnerable. In other words dude's nose was wide open, as my grandmother would have said. He was all the way in. And heck that is a good thing.

But as he shared his raw emotions with me, I told him it's better to have love and lost than to not have loved at all.

He kept saying how he was going back to the Old Him. The one that didn't allow that kind of stuff to happen.

I laff right in his face. Nah, that's not necessary. That will only show that your maturity has been shifted into reverse.

He maintained that how he felt is something that he will not allow again.

Poooor baby, I say but this time to myself. But then as a divorcee, I have to say, "You live and learn, and you love."

But I stumbled across research that says that most divorced people do NOT agree with me.

The stat says almost 40 percent of the single population is divorced. About 60 percent of the total single population has never been married before.

And then it said this:

"The jury is in: more people think it's better to have never loved at all then to have loved and lost."

But I cannot understand for the life of me this statistic because LOVE is the most powerful emotion on the planet and shouldn't everyone want to experience it.

Sooo do you think it is better to have loved and lost or never loved at all?