When is love a weakness

Putting my guard up meant shielding myself from comfort and communication; I twisted my perception of what family meant to me and isolated myself from any future occurrence of disappointment or dismay. I promise you, this is not the life you want to live. Sometimes I think strength is a weakness and weakness is a strength.

Being strong means creating friendships and falling in love, regardless of the inevitability of hardship and strife. Those who have been through true betrayal know the feeling of isolation and loss.

Those who choose to be strong have the answer. I want you to understand going down this road of strength will not be easy. Regardless of how hard you try to engage and start to open up, the dark bitterness will always seep through.

I know this because I have hurt people I love by showing constant distrust, and sometimes it becomes automatic to refuse to talk things through. Going to bed angry had always been the way I did things, to internalize my anger and hurt instead of projecting it outward through communication and love.

They leave because of its strain on relationships. The problem is communication will not always be guaranteed and trust may cease to exist. Through the loneliness and the pain, I have learned the best lesson of all. I know this because choosing to live alone will never be a life truly lived. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Love is a weakness. Love is a cancer that grows inside and makes one do foolish things. Love is death.

Anime And Manga. Fist of the North Star : Most of the reasonings of Souther's atrocity is that he thinks of this trope. He was overstruck with extreme weakness and guilt due to his love for his beloved master that he accidentally killed, leading him to believe that Love Is a Weakness and one must be devoid of love to be strong and successful in the Crapsack World he's in.

Fullmetal Alchemist : Utilized to great effect by the Big Bad when the heroes get themselves into trouble. Mustang tries and fails to use the trope against Wrath, who turns around and uses it right back on both him and, later, Edward Elric by holding the lives of their Love Interests over their heads.

Wrath even invokes the trope almost by name when telling Mustang what he's going to do. Wrath: Selim will never work as a point of weakness in my life.

But you, on the other hand I know exactly who to use as your weak point. She'll be under my watch from now on. Comic Books. Harley: 'Cuz really, who needs love? It's like inking a bull's eye on your heart and givin' some rando a crossbow. In the Bleach fanfiction Heirverse series Jac exploits this to horrible effect.

In the Hunger Games fanfiction Some Semblance of Meaning , we can gather from Obsidian's point of view that Careers have this drilled into their heads.

His district partner, Amber , is definitely of this mindset, partially due to the fact that her older sister was killed at the end of the 40th Hunger Games by her district partner, with whom she had fallen in love.

Amber herself does not believe in love or compassion, and she is thus convinced that this will give her the strength to win. The Facing the Future Series shows this is Walker's opinion on Danny's feelings for Sam, stating she is one of the few weaknesses he really has.

In The Bridge , Xenilla acknowledges The Power of Love as a great force, but declares that feeling love for another person will only limit and control you, which is why he loves no one. Deep down inside, he loves his brother Godzilla Junior. When King Sombra forced him to hallucinate Junior dying, he went berserk. Iva Kann from A Prize for Three Empires believes that loving someone makes you vulnerable, so she sticks to casual, uncommitted sex.

Danzo Shimura in Son of the Sannin holds a non-romantic view of this. When he's confronted by Shizune and Shisui Uchiha about his treachery towards Konoha, he counters with his own beliefs: that ninjas must not have emotions or loved ones, as it's egotistical of them to protect Konoha just for the sake of a few people who mean something to them. Films — Animated. In Hercules , Megara tells Hades Hercules has no weaknesses, to which Hades replies "I think he does, Meg, I truly think he does" and grins evilly, burning the flower he gave her.

Cue I Have Your Wife. As he's never known love since childhood, Prince Hans derides Act of True Love as an exploitable weakness , but it left him incapable of understanding it beyond an intellectual level. As a result, Anna's recovery from the frozen heart curse, reconciliation with her sister, and her Heroic Sacrifice all perplex him, and when she calls him out for being "frozen-hearted," it even leaves him utterly confused.

That said, love is also the only reason Shifu can train The Hero effectively, so it has both cons and pros. Films — Live-Action. Pirates of the Caribbean : Davy Jones is an aversion. He cut out his own heart because Calyspo's rejection hurt him so much - but his romantic feeling is not his weakness. The physical still-beating heart is literally a weakness. Back to the Future Part III : When told he will fall in love, Doc Brown insists that falling in love would be an unacceptable distraction from his scientific labors.

His protestations don't last long when he meets her. Ironically, it does prove to be a distraction that nearly gets them all killed One of the twisted ironies of Star Wars is that both the Jedi Order and the Sith have similarly negative opinions of love.

The Jedi attitude to love sits between this trope and Love Makes You Evil , as they believe it not only leads to attachment but opens up a potential conduit for the Dark Side. The Sith, meanwhile, hate love because it can douse the negative emotions they are taught to draw upon for strength, inclines them to sympathise with others, and creates a weakness that others can exploit. The various stories taking place thousands of years prior to the movies also showed that the Jedi Order's position on this trope varied greatly from era to era, and sometimes even just depending on who the current Grand Master was.

In The Avengers , Loki claims this at every possible opportunity. Bell, Book and Candle establishes early on that a witch loses her powers if she falls in love. Guess what happens to witch Kim Novak at the end. Assassin's Creed : Maria says the sultan's love for his son makes him weak and easy to manipulate and repeatedly stresses to Aguilar that he should put the mission before her and not grieve should she die. Likewise, Joseph's love for his son made him unable to kill said son which means the Templars eventually got their hands on him and plugged him into the Animus so they could find the Apple of Eden.

Love for me is a complicated form and beast for me to encounter. This unfortunately affects me with both my friendships and relationships. One way I keep track of this is a personality tracker. I fill it out every month with these questions regarding my closest relationships and how I feel about them. The statistics and how it influxes each month is incredibly fascinating. It asks me what I feel for my father, mother, best friend, and if I have someone romantically in my life what I feel for them.

My most secure relationships are those with my closet friends. When asked the questions of: do I fear them abandoning me? I give a strong no. I know why I emotionally distance myself from others. When friends challenge me to say kind things about myself my mind goes blank.