By Bart Sharp

I like to entertain the thought that being in love at the age of 50 or above is a more powerful kind of love than young love.  A lot can be said about the merits of young love in it world of freshness, naivety, physical beauty and hormones as the world has traditionally focused on that era of romance.  Purity is a wisdom that comes from the lessons of introspection, completion and experience.  Of course this article may show the younger audience what they have to look forward to.

If someone can love at age 50 requires them to resolve their guilt because they have made almost every mistake in the book by then.  If they are still willing to love openly again like the innocence of your love a huge forgiveness of self and of others must occur.   Otherwise the weight of those unresolved and unforgiven parts of us will kill any ability to reveal ourselves deeply that is required in mature love.

Love is too heavy of an experience for cynicism, it can severely wound a heart.  Time will always tell us that our freedom requires us to learn the lessons that regret presents to us.  Maturity guides us.  The only blame that cures is looking at our own faults to uncover where we went off the path, then we can find our way back to the richness of loving us. Then another.

To be refreshed in our own hormones and the joyful vitality of loving someone over 50 it is required to let go of our resentments.  The anger that have has complied deep inside and layered our libido to create a stalemate inside must go.  Loving over 50 requires us to unfold our pains and expose them to the light to be free of our past and our life force of sexual energy flows freely from the genitals up to our heart.

What we learn from aging is vulnerability, a softer side that opens to the world. Knowing we will be protected by our wisdom we go more naked into the world.  In that defenselessness we are more of an invitation to receive love of all kinds and see it in its multiplicities of expression.  We can cherish life in all of its moments.

We have seen so many kinds of fear by age 50 we know it is not real, so why buy into it?  Anything depleting is created in a lie.  Love always fills and replenishes.  With maturity we know how to nurture love so that it stays alive.  Each stage of life can be honored in love, loving relationships and heart filled romance.