Love Disconnection

How do you teach someone about love when they don't believe true love exists because their idea of love means sex, gifts and expectations?

Where can the man/woman who grew up manipulated, lied to, ridiculed, insulted and abused learn to see that not all people will treat them this way?

I recently viewed a documentary about western men visiting Ukraine in search of brides. I heard one man liking women to cars. Like test driving a car, he has to test drive the women prior to considering them for marriage. No virgins exist, so he is dealing with a used product (he says). He's made the trip six times.

Another man, drinking heavily throughout the trip, freely shares his method of conquest. He tells the women that his entire family recently perished in a horrible accident. He uses their compassion and pity to lure them into bed. He's so proud.

The other men justify their categorization of western women. They're money hungry, lazy and out of touch with the classic definition of a woman's role these men have in mind. The men lament on the woes of past relationships. However, they don't realize how they are partly to blame for continuing the culture that promotes the things they are seemingly offended by. They fail to realize their very actions and manner of going about searching for a wife is problematic. They fail to realize the western mindset is already in Ukraine and the rest of the world.

The would-be brides have also been conditioned by the western mindset, the culture being present there and elsewhere.

The western mindset promoted in media has become the world's common denominator.

The method of finding someone to love, according to popular opinion, seems to be quite misunderstood by very many people.

Searching for true love on dark paths.