Talk:Imprinting/@comment-24927180-20140831003358/@comment-98.211.75.105-20140903221532

I know Meyer would say no. She's...very one-sided when it comes to true love which is what imprinting is suppose to be.

Which is a shame because love really is something that people should see as open to anyone and everyone not cut down to the person that you reproduce with. Meyer writes love like someone who has never been in love.

There is nothing ever written that your soul mate is your romantic partner. It's just a person that's good for you because they make you want to be the best you that you can be. With Twilight it's only true love when you are ready to give up everything that makes you, you, and have a child.

Bella could have stayed a human, she could have grown up, got a job, had kids, and still been with Edward. It wouldn't have made their love any less real, but Bella kept treating it like she would never be loved by him until she was worthy of him when she was worthy just by being herself.

It's rather sad in reality.

Being with Edward didn't make her want to be the best of herself, it made her want to throw herself out to be someone worthy of Edward. Edward's view of his love with Bella was better than Bella's view of her love with Edward. Bella was really a unexprienced teenager with her love for Edward.

It's the same with the imprinters. Why couldn't they still be them? Still find what they liked fun? Instead they had to change to fit what their imprintee wants. How is that love? I can like everything that the guy I have a crush on likes, I can agree with him on everything, but that doesn't make it love.

Nobody wants the relationship where one partner agrees to everything you say. People think they do, but they don't. You need the late night fights just as much as you need the cuddling on the sofa, Meyer makes love out to be something that exists purly to make you forget everything you are, that it only counts as true love when you get rid of yourself.

Meyer needs to accept that true love is not always romantic, it does not always mean you have kids, or even get married, it's just love.

I hope that I'm making sense with this. I feel like I am, but I also haven't slept in twenty-four hours, so it's possible that I'm just rambling about love. I'm glad at the very least that you have a better understanding of where I'm coming from with this.