TOPIC: Medical

Special Needs, Special Love

By Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT

During college, it was commonplace for me to enter into philosophical conversations about the nature of things. What is truth? What is beauty? What is love?

That last question was always a hot topic. Is love the stuff of romantic fantasies? Or does it only belong to the realm of religious devotion? Most importantly at the time–what does it mean to “like” a girl, and what does it mean to “love” her?