Is it possible to love and hate at the same time?

[Neptune]

Someone I know always says "I hate that I love ___" and to me, it seems like backwards logic. I get that you can hate what something or someone does to you and still care deeply, but to actually hate the immediate object or person and still say you love them/it? I don't get that.

So my question, pointless as is may be, - Can you really ever hate something you love?

 

[Solidus1]

I guess if you love something that you don't want to. Example: You are very overweight and love most fatty foods, that's something you could "hate".

 

[Neptune]

I guess if you love something that you don't want to. Example: You are very overweight and love most fatty foods, that's something you could "hate".

That is hating what something has done to you though. Like you love the food but hate it makes you fat.

 

[Solidus1]

Then you hate yourself for not giving it up.

 

[CM Punk]

Think we had a thread recently where it was TV Shows that are guilty pleasures. Like, you can enjoy a show that has a different target audience or isn't really your type, but you enjoy it. Think this fits hate/love relationship.

 

[Neptune]

But can you genuinely say you hate yourself if you still continue to feed yourself? If a person truly hated themselves, would they even bother eating?

 

[Neptune]

Think we had a thread recently where it was TV Shows that are guilty pleasures. Like, you can enjoy a show that has a different target audience or isn't really your type, but you enjoy it. Think this fits hate/love relationship.

But you still enjoy it even though it, at its core, you dislike. For whatever reason, this still isn't hate to me. It is like saying " I love to hate you but hate to love you" it just contradicts itself.

 

[Solidus1]

But can you genuinely say you hate yourself if you still continue to feed yourself? If a person truly hated themselves, would they even bother eating?

Those who say "I hate that I love" aren't really thinking in that way. It's just a way to emphasize that something you enjoy/love has negative repercussions which you "hate".

 

[Neptune]

Those who say "I hate that I love" aren't really thinking in that way. It's just a way to emphasize that something you enjoy/love has negative repercussions which you "hate".

Exactly. It is using the word hate out of context, but I guess people do the same for love. Does anyone truly LOVE pizza? Like they would give up their life to eat it and enjoy it? I don't think so. lol

 

[Solidus1]

If it's bbq chicken... :lenny:

 

[Roadster]

Saying 'I hate that I love...' is more of an expression than it is a legitimate feeling towards something. Love and Hate are mental states of mind. You can't mentally love something, and hate it at the same time.

I think that's what my teacher told me.

 

[Neptune]

Saying 'I hate that I love...' is more of an expression than it is a legitimate feeling towards something. Love and Hate are mental states of mind. You can't mentally love something, and hate it at the same time.

I think that's what my teacher told me.

Like solidus said, people use it to get a point across for emphasis. So really, at the ed of the day, you can't REALLY simultaneously hate and love something or someone at the same time. Loving them or it and hating what they or the object does is reasonable.

 

[Roadster]

That's what I said :heyman:

 

[Solidus1]

Rihanna said it anyway, so it must be right nope:

 

[Roadster]

Rihanna said it anyway, so it must be right nope:

Chris Brown begs to differ.

*Insert jokes about him beating her up, oh wait I just did*