Valentine's Day for Singles A-ha Moment: "Love Has a Price"

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“Love has a price.” Have you ever heard that before? Or maybe you’ve even said something yourself, such as "With love comes trade-offs." Any of those thoughts around “Love has a price” is also saying that love is a commodity. Kind of like you’d go to the store and buy love. So, in this mindset, I have to have $2 to pay for a can of soda, and love works that way too. No moolah, no soda; nothing to trade away, no love. In that thought, that’s how love is “transacted.”

Put in those terms, it makes love sound bleak and cold. Do you believe that love works that way, bleak and cold in a transaction like that? I’m thinking you probably don’t, but if you’ve said that there’s a price for love, then that’s the belief you’re starting with. That’s the belief that your actions are starting with.

If you’ve noticed now that this is your thought and you’d like an alternative around it, well, here’s your alternative.

“Love has a price” is just one thought. There are many thoughts we could have about love. Here’s a suggested thought, if you’d like one to try out for size. It is that love is like currency. But unlike dollars or Euros and pennies and coins in your pocket, love is a limitless currency. Sometimes we ask each other in conversation, if you had all the money in the world, what would you do with it? We answer with things like, give some to charity, buy a boat, buy a giant house.

So consider this as you try the thought “Love is my currency” on for size: If you believed that this was true - that you could never run out of love, that mean people have as much love in them as you do, that love is out there to be freely given and freely received - what would you be doing differently? If you thought your love was a limitless currency, what would you be doing differently?