The connection between Denmark, England, even Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the US is a long and historic relationship.

In terms of poetic platonic love I guess that this is not the first time we have been there. Wolfgang Von Goethe was a romantic in the platonic mold, and he made a HUGE impression on the entire European culture in his time.

It sparked a whole epoch called romanticism that we REALLY held on to here in Denmark. When Germany travelled on in what we saw as gold rationalism Søren Kierkegaard made his own philosophical school called existialism. It was a Socratic defense of faith and G-d. This lead to Denmark being a bastion of spirituality in Europe, philosophically. When Niels Bohr went to the US and made the nuclear bomb, he concluded it with a famous letter to the UN where he argued for openness (what ultimately created the internet) this he did because he was friends with K.E. Løgstrup who was the leading theologian philosopher of his time here in Denmark.

So LØGSTRUP had this beautiful understanding of love, that might rhyme with the Americans and the Brits.

He held the strong belief, that when we have someone we love, we hold that heart in our hands. We are DEPENDENT on each other. That dependence gives us a moral obligation to protect that heart. We get a very great task as soon as someone falls in love with us. We have to protect that heart. Because as one of our singers said after that heart doesn’t carry any weapons.

In other words in a relation, we are so dependent on our spouse to be careful, because we are so exposed.

Realizing this basic condition to our love lives is a way to really realize the responsibility we have towards each other.

Often we hurt those we love the most, because those we love the most are the most exposed.

We should understand this, and turn our attention to it, and protect those feelings that our best friend has to us.

It is difficult in a life that is often riddled with ups and downs.

Life is not easy for anyone. Though if we get it right, the RELATION, and start protecting that heart that is given to to protect. We at least get that right.

G-d bless the will to protect those you love. ❤️