Love Is Not Like Merchandise

This is a prevalent misconception in many people's minds--that love,like merchandise,can be"stolen". Numerous states,in fact,have enacted laws allowing damages for"alienation of affection." But love is not a commodity;the real thing cannot be bought,sold,traded or stolen. It is an act of the will,a turning of the emotions, a change in the chimate of the personality. When a husband or wife is "stolen"by another person,that …showed first 75 words of 336 total…

…showed last 75 words of 336 total…out their own destinies for good or for ill. But the refected lover or mate cannot afford to believe that his beloved has freely turned away from him--and so he ascribes sinister or magical properties to the interloper. He calls him a hypnotist or a thief of a homebreaker. In the vast mafority of cases, however, when a home is broken, the breaking has begun olng vefore any "third party" has appeared on the scene.