After their endured their first say and eventually the duration, they feel slightly accomplished. When the soldier is awakened on their first morning of basic training, they are faced with the reality whether they should even go through it. When we are new to a relationship, we also have the same feeling that it’s going to be easy flowing. Before a soldier starts their basic training, they have the attitude that it’ll be easy. We don’t know when we won’t need pull out and use our gun or knife, just as we don’t know when we’re about to be attacked emotionally or even psychologically. Soldiers keep the gun and knife close to their body, to protect themselves when that moment arrives to fight back.

When soldiers are in battle, they have guns and knives on hand to fight off their enemy. It’s an emotional and at times, a psychological war. Do we have try to be likened to a spy where we have to pretend to get in the other person’s dark side? Or, do we be the soldier that goes in to fight? It’s not a physical war that we have with the person we are trying to be in love with. The “enemy” that we must deal with in a relationship is our partner’s attention span and true intentions. Soldiers must be more aware and improve all their senses in order to fight the “enemy” they encounter. When we try to be in a relationship with someone, it can be compared to military soldiers who must fight in a physical war to survive. Love is a battlefield, an emotional fight to be in. Our heart may love someone, and most of the time, they don’t even love us back! Dating, love, and romance has become extremely difficult to be in due to what we thought of the modern conveniences ruining peoples’ attention span. It doesn’t matter what race or even their gender, people are narcissists! It doesn’t matter whether a person is heterosexual or homosexual, male or even female, people we know, are difficult to be in a loving romantic relationship with.

People have become materialistic and selfish, that they don’t care about anyone but themselves! The average person in a developed country is a narcissist.

There’s the internet and more people on the planet to engage in sexual activity with. Love, romance, relationships aren’t easy to be in and have any more. After much needed consideration, the meaning in regards to love being a battlefield, can be taken on a different level than the song from over thirty years ago. The context has some reference as to how romance and relationships are difficult to be in. The song is to be taken figuratively and not literally. Over thirty years ago, the singer Pat Benatar released a song, “Love is a battlefield”.