Terrence Howard On Love...

Terrence Howard on Rosenburg Radio (listen/download)

"Long-suffering means being in a position to change your circumstance but willing to sit there and continue to be offended in hopes that the offending party will change. It's the greatest form of love. It's the type of love that God has for mankind. Because he's in a position to fix everything right now by wiping us out but he doesn't. In a relationship, to be long-suffering, often times, that's the woman -- who knows that the guy isn't right but sees something beautiful in him and keeps waiting and hoping that if she keeps pouring a little more kindness and understanding on him, he's gonna change. And often times it reaches him, sometimes it doesn't, but that's long-suffering...

It's supposed to be [two ways] because you have to be understanding on both sides and you have to love and see a better person in the person than they see in themselves. Because they see you. I remember a girl telling me a long time ago, she said, "if only you saw you the way I did." And then that made me want to be more like the person she saw...

But as long suffering as love can be, sometimes there's a point, there's an end to it, when you've strained it so far that we're only human and we don't have an infinite amount of love even though we may try to have it...

If you could package that kind of love that you have when you are 13 and hold on to it forever and never breakup, the world would be a different place, but for some reason girls they get to running after the bad boy and the nice guy keeps getting dissed. At 39, I feel sorry because women are still paying for what girls did to me when I was 16. You learn how to play monster. Men are a lot more sensitive than is reported. We hold a grudge. And unless that person comes and says, "I'm sorry I shouldn't have did that to you, you should have stayed the nice guy" you get more as a unappreciative monster than as a good guy. Girls want the bad guy, to start. Then later on, they want the good guy. But they done turned all the good guys into bad guys...

[And you still stupidly think that you're still the good guy] Until you see her flesh on your teeth and you're sitting there devouring her emotionally on a daily basis, and you look at yourself in the mirror and walk away. But now you've left another wounded creature. And you go off. Hopefully some woman is gonna turn you around again, and remind you of that little boy that used to love.

dee says: who the f knew?
A Says: Wow, that was a lesson, a reality check and refreshing all at once!