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Love is a many splendoured experience! But it also spawns a very poisonous tendency: possessiveness. Lovers sport this characteristic on a grand scale! Each is convinced that the other belongs, mind, body and soul to the other. While this is essentially true and empowering it also degenerates into a claustrophobic embrace into which both lock each other. The result is a complete loss of freedom and space for both parties. Each believes that the other cannot sit, stand, or engage in anything without the other; so much so that even thoughts are expected to be shared in toto. That’s when the pristine beauty of love begins to be poisoned; soon the love is eaten away by harsh words, impossible expectations and nasty behavior. The wellspring of sparkling, pure and ennobling love has been contaminated by possessiveness! Space, trust, respect, freedom, unconditional acceptance, non-expectation and non-judgmentalism are all antidotes and preventives that keep the poison of possessiveness at bay.