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My question:
You have the chance to meet someone with whom you can have the most satisfying love imaginable — the stuff of dreams.
Sadly, you know that in six months the person will die.
Knowing the pain that would follow, would you still want to meet the person and fall in love? What if you knew your lover would not die, but instead would betray you?
My answer: Leave it to me to tax your brain. 😀
Wow. …. Wow. I’m not even sure how to answer this. My gut instinct is to say NO. I wouldn’t want to endure that heartache afterward …
BUT
To experience pure love, the kind that perfectly melds into every fiber of your being, I don’t know. Would the experience be enough to sustain me after it was yanked away? And what kind of love life would I have afterward? Wouldn’t I always be comparing to that first love? And wouldn’t I always be disappointed?
I don’t know, I think I would prefer to just not experience it at all and always wonder … what if?
Write From Karen 
I would take thelove no matter how short the time
It’s hard to know for sure. I think I would be okay knowing the person would die, but not knowing the person would betray me. I think I have been stabbed in the back too many times!
WOWWWWW! What a question.
I lost my mom a few years ago …way too soon. Gutwrenching. I wish I didn’t have to have endure the pain we’ve had to deal with the last few years…..but the pain is strong because the love was so strong.
But, right now, man I don’t want any more loss. Tough question for this girl!
Well, if I wasn’t already married I would have to say yes. I would still want the experience, even if it was only for a short time.
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I’d need more info. Did the person love me back? Did we spend those 6 months together or would he be working a lot of it? What about a cell phone? Does he own one? Would he always be on it?
Just kidding. That’s really tough. Like everyone else, my first inclination is no. But then, the more I think about it the more I think maybe.
Betrayal? No way. After seeing what my cousin’s been through, I would definitely say no.
You know, it just occurred to me, this question sounds like a Nicholas Sparks’ movie doesn’t it? (The Notebook, Message in a Bottle, Dear John).
My wife said ” see ya in 6 months”!
I’m currently asking my wife for the answer! ….. Is this not what the true definition of love falls under? Love is meaningful,,time is relative.
As for the latter half of the question?…..Betrayal has it’s price!!!!!!!
Hmmm…. that is interesting. But I think I will go with the crowd here. I would go for it. Either way, you cant be really happy if you dont know what it is to be sad. Not saying I would pick the sad or the betrayal or death; but I guess its part of the package.
As my son says…. you get what you get and you dont throw a fit…. about sums it up for me.
There is that saying ” It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all”. I agree with that saying !
I would be the opposite…if it is chance to feel an incredible love then I would want it…if only for a moment!
Yeah my gut instinct is a big fat NO but then I think, “But what if that person had been my husband…” and I can’t imagine never having met him. That said ::big huge knock on wood:: I can’t imagine living without him either.