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I have recently read something by St. Thomas Aquinas that my brother had shown me. He explained in it that the will, like the intellect, is not entirely free. In intellect we often follow what our mind finds reasonable or logical, likewise in our will we often follow after what we think is good for ourselves. Neither is pushed violently, only led towards. Of course he goes into it much more than that, and it goes on for several pages.

I believe that the heart, or I should say romantic love, acts like that of the intellect and the will. Seeing how RL(Romantic Love) is something desired or willed after(AKA something of the will). It is not entirely free but only follows after what it thinks good for itself. Also, like the others, is not violently moved, only led. So it would not be true to say that it did not have some freedom, but at the same length it would be wrong to say it was entirely free. This of course are my beginning thoughts on the subject.

If I were to go on to what I am theorizing rather than have concluded. I would say that RL can be controlled in the sense that it can be shown and changed to see something else as good for itself. We ourselves can cause such movements, or others can cause such movements, even our irrational fears can move it away from something previously desired. This causes me to think of an argument that C.S. Lewis uses in Mere Christianity which concludes that it is Reason and Faith vs Changing emotions. Likewise, in the idea of RL we must realize to remain faithful of the relationship in which the RL thrives, to feed it with such desires and to hold faith when the relationship seems to be trembling or crumbling. Though we must also try to realize when actual dangers, not just irrational fears or poor conclusions made by you or others near you, are appearing.

To the Christians, Paul gives many commandments towards us concerning such relationships, which I believe are to instill in us the safety measures to help keep such relationships strong after the sanctity of marriage has appeared between the couple or even possibly before.(The only thing stopping such conclusion is that Paul wishes for us to be like him in this aspect so I would not think he meant it for those outside of marriage) For instance he reminds the husband to love the wife like he loves himself, in other words desire after her cares as he desires after his own, as to say the combining of the wills. To the woman he commands much the same in serving the husband, the desiring after his good as she would her own. God blesses such relationships and leads them, it is not something that is at all lost, much like your willing after good is not something that is at all lost. As the union goes to prove it is the combining of wills together as one, the sacrifice of one for another as if the hearts are combined, that God can infact repair it as well. If God can repair even our hearts, then only by vain blasphemy could one assume he could not repair even the most broken of relationships under His name.

(Please forgive any grammatical errors or punctuation errors. Also please forgive me if it is hard to read. This is just some thoughts over the subject that I did not want lost)