What is love?

pikachucheeks

If someone asked you the question, "What is love?", how would you describe it?

Just in your own words...as few or as many as you want

cathysworld

baby dont hurt me no more

FACEPALM

True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpoint in another
(Wedding Crashers):)

It is temporary chemical insanity, that makes you look past all a persons horrific personality defects.
Convincing you that they are the admirable human endeavor personified.

shellyboo

cathysworld wrote: »

baby dont hurt me no more

DAMMIT! Was just coming in to post this.

Anna Molly

Over rated comes to mind! [:
Ha, not really. I'm just anti-love at the moment.

Love is unconditional

Cows Go µ

Love is... really hard to describe.

The main thing I can think of is happy. I don't think I have ever been so happy as I am now

pikachucheeks

I think I'd describe love as unconditionally caring and feeling for someone.

Although, I've never been in love to really know...

cathysworld

Yeah I agree, looking past someone faults and annoying habits and accepting them and wanting to be with them all the time.. I have also never been in love! I have stalked, it's similar

smileysurfer

cathysworld wrote: »

Yeah I agree, looking past someone faults and annoying habits and accepting them and wanting to be with them all the time.. I have also never been in love! I have stalked, it's similar

hahaha this make me chuckle :P

cathysworld

I guess if all his skin was melted off in some freak accident and I still wanted to be with him, then I'd know

Malari

For me? Knowing that I'll still be with him in 30 years time (barring disaster) probably hearing the same stories over again and again, predicting that those slightly annoying habits will only get worse, being able to know exactly what he's going to say, imagining a paunch, arthritis, high blood pressure, hairs growing out of orifices they don't now, slight deafness, etc....BUT....looking forward to all that as much as I'm looking forward to meeting him for lunch today cause I know he'll always make me happy.

rannerap

cathysworld wrote: »

baby dont hurt me no more

:Dfirst thing that came into my head when i seen the thread

lifelonglufc

Love between two people to me is....

When they feel sad, you feel sad and vice versa
When they feel happy, you feel happy and vice versa

Hard to explain but I think it's the sharing of deep feelings and care for one and another?! If that makes any sense! :cool:

Yes I have been in love, not now though, but think I still love her!

Wibbs

I would say love is... well it's a hard one. I don't think love is unconditional for a start. I've yet to see a romantic love, even a great one not have conditions attached. Fidelity, emotional or sexual is a condition for a start.

If I had to, gun to my head, give a definition and ideal of love in all it's forms, familial, romantic and friendship, I'd say love is acceptance. Acceptance of the other for all their good and bad and middling. Acceptance of the fragility of it and acceptance of the fact it needs effort and acceptance of when it ends, it doesn't deny it's existence in the first place and acceptance that the one you love may find more contentment with another. Most of all I think it's acceptance of oneself as the starting point from where all healthy love originates. Without that last part anything approaching true love can't exist IMHO.

cathysworld

Wibbs wrote: »

I would say love is... well it's a hard one. I don't think love is unconditional for a start. I've yet to see a romantic love, even a great one not have conditions attached. Fidelity, emotional or sexual is a condition for a start.

If I had to, gun to my head, give a definition and ideal of love in all it's forms, familial, romantic and friendship, I'd say love is acceptance. Acceptance of the other for all their good and bad and middling. Acceptance of the fragility of it and acceptance of the fact it needs effort and acceptance of when it ends, it doesn't deny it's existence in the first place and acceptance that the one you love may find more contentment with another. Most of all I think it's acceptance of oneself as the starting point from where all healthy love originates. Without that last part anything approaching true love can't exist IMHO.

Wha? :pac:

minidazzler

Love is being Content in a relationship enough to last for life.

It is not Unconditional.

It does not really last forever.

~me~

hmmm, thats kinda like what i asked the oh the other day out of curosity after reading something- how do you know you love me and not just be really interested/in lust/care for me? and my partner of four years and father to my childs romantic answer was 'eh cause i do, i suppose, eh i dunno, is this a trick question or what?' :rolleyes:

i think its when you know and like someone so much that when you imagine your future they're beside you, when you hear a joke you instantly think 'oh i better tell him that one', when you see him no matter where you are you feel safe like you're at home, like wherever you are if hes there then its familiar and lastly... when you put up with their snoring, farting, dirty clothes lying around and laziness and still wanna kiss them!

i think it differs depending on the relationship though- like a physical relationship in the beginning (even if it is love) would be alot different to a married couple with a mortgage and kids cause that kind of love is more accepting and caring than one thats more about lust.

gollyitsolly

Aw Love. Love is butterflies in your stomach. Melting when he kisses your neck. Tingling when he holds your hand. Laughing at his stupid jokes. Picking up his socks and jocks. Hurting when hes hurt. Feeding him. Waiting for him to come home..............:)

shivvyban

Love is tingling whenever he touches you no matter how long you've been together. Love is looking at him and getting that 'wow' feeling at randon times. Love is knowing that no-one could ever replace them. Its a million other things I can't even put into words!!

Last week I was in a car accident and when my friend lost control of the car and the only thing I could see in my mind was him and all I thought for that 5 seconds that we were swerving was 'I hope he knows how much I love him'... I know that sounds ghey!

Professey Chin

Love is the power to destroy someone in an instant

kingtut

Love is a state of mind. Like when you can't stop thinking about someone and everything you do is done with them in mind. You think about them constantly and the thought of being without them rips you apart.

For me the closest I have gotten to love is getting a lovely chinese take-away and realising that it is mine, all mine and no-one can do anything to seperate us

This thread is making me all warm and fuzzy inside

shellyboo

Wibbs wrote: »

I would say love is... well it's a hard one.

I agree. :pac:

minidazzler

kingtut wrote: »

Love is a state of mind. Like when you can't stop thinking about someone and everything you do is done with them in mind. You think about them constantly and the thought of being without them rips you apart.

For me the closest I have gotten to love is getting a lovely chinese take-away and realising that it is mine, all mine and no-one can do anything to seperate us

This thread is making me all warm and fuzzy inside

I would liken that to Lust rather than love myself.

shellyboo

Ok, serious answer.

I've been in love before, but I'm no longer totally sure that it was everything love is supposed to be. I don't think I know what love is... but I feel like I'm on the way to finding out

Basically...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs6O6EG1T_w

*croons*

pikachucheeks

I love that song!
Cheesy, but good!

bronte

cathysworld wrote: »

I guess if all his skin was melted off in some freak accident and I still wanted to be with him, then I'd know

I think Marge Simpson was fairly spot on when she said "When a woman loves a man it doesn't matter that a crocodile bit off his face"

I fall very very deeply in love and anytime I have it's been amazing.
It doesn't happen very often , but when it does I am the happiest bunny in the world.

mSe265

I like this quote:

"Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own. I like to put it that way: trumps your own. Love of somebody else--of family, of your kids--becomes the most important, most worthwhile thing in your life. It's what you foster and protect."

dublingal80

Love is:

• being with my OH for over 3 years and still getting giddy when I know im seeing him
• having him dance with me at a wedding even tho he HATES it cos I know he is only doing it for me
• being able to sit in silence for hours but a comfortable silence
• buying eachother silly things, just because we know the other one would like it or find it funny
• being in a pub together and looking at eachother over all the heads and just a wink from him to know he is thinking of me
• having texted or talked everyday since the first day we met
• knowing just to hold me and not talk when im upset
• me trying to pick a silly arugement cos im a wee bit tipsey, and him calling me out on it so all i can do is laugh
• him telling me, even if im in my pjs or tracksuit that i look sexy and gorgeous
• going to get me burger and chips when im too hungover to move
• not being able to go through a few minutes without thinking about him, a smile creep across my face and knowing how lucky i am
• listening to my girl friends moan about their OH and i have nothing to contribute because he is perfect
• everything he has done for me over the last two months as i had a very difficult time

I could go on forever but i have to go!

who what when

shivvyban wrote: »

Love is tingling whenever he touches you no matter how long you've been together. Love is looking at him and getting that 'wow' feeling at randon times. Love is knowing that no-one could ever replace them. Its a million other things I can't even put into words!!

Last week I was in a car accident and when my friend lost control of the car and the only thing I could see in my mind was him and all I thought for that 5 seconds that we were swerving was 'I hope he knows how much I love him'... I know that sounds ghey!

Well it is if youre a bloke!!

Dudess

Love is "**** my head, I'm listening to my heart".

It's literally feeling sick at both the thought of the person (yes, that sounds so wrong but you know what I mean!) and the thought of being without them.

smileysurfer

Im not sure I could love someone I feel sick at the thought of

Dudess

I was afraid I'd be misinterpreted.

Have you ever been so crazy about someone that the thought of them actually makes you feel that nervous sick sensation (probably the only time feeling sick can be good )?

shellyboo

smileysurfer wrote: »

Im not sure I could love someone I feel sick at the thought of

No, I think I understand what Dudess means... it's a nice kind of sick! Like, kicked in the guts as opposed to vomiting... or something

smileysurfer

I have to say I have never experienced the sick feeling, but i get what your saying now :P

Pyr0

The best way I can describe love.. Hmmm..

It can be the most wonderful feeling in the world when both parties feel it equally for each other but it can be the absolute worst emotion to feel when it's only one person feeling it.

Anna Molly

Pyr0 wrote: »

The best way I can describe love.. Hmmm..

It can be the most wonderful feeling in the world when both parties feel it equally for each other but it can be the absolute worst emotion to feel when it's only one person feeling it.

When a heart breaks, it don't break even!

Dudess

Pyr0 wrote: »

The best way I can describe love.. Hmmm..

It can be the most wonderful feeling in the world when both parties feel it equally for each other but it can be the absolute worst emotion to feel when it's only one person feeling it.

So true. It's both agony and ecstasy.

Caoimhín

I certainly know what it feels like to be heartbroken.

Dudess

I don't know whether to envy or feel sorry for people who have never been heartbroken... no guarantee it won't happen, in which case they have it all ahead of them for the first time.

CoachBoone

Dudess wrote: »

I don't know whether to envy or feel sorry for people who have never been heartbroken... no guarantee it won't happen, in which case they have it all ahead of them for the first time.

Envy. Definitely.

Dudess

I don't know. I'd only feel envy if there was a cast-iron guarantee they will never, ever face romantic heartbreak as long as they live (which of course doesn't exist).

Latchy

Question reminds me of this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE61Bz7IHKg

bronte

Dudess wrote: »

I don't know. I'd only feel envy if there was a cast-iron guarantee they will never, ever face romantic heartbreak as long as they live (which of course doesn't exist).

Hmm, I wonder if you know how lucky you are if you've never lost the one you love.
Do we have to experience the pain end of it to fully appreciate the pleasure?
Wouldn't wish heartbreak on anyone.
It sucks!

Carsinian Thau

Dudess wrote: »

cast-iron guarantee they will never, ever face romantic heartbreak as long as they live (which of course doesn't exist).

Not necessairily. A psychosocial disorder that prevented any sort of real emotional connection and an asexual sexual orientation could theoretically yield someone who could never experience any romantic heartbreak. Or anything else romatic for that matter...

nabacliom

I think its knowing that it's not easy and accepting it for what it is!

Novella

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

"Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise from, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where you're headed."

Latchy

To expierence the joy ( and pain ) of Love is a human expierence like no other .Love can be toxic .

Or to quote an old phrase

'' tis better to have loved a little than to have never loved at all '

Faith

It's hard to define, isn't it? To start, lust is knowing a person's faults and ignoring them, while love is knowing a person's faults and accepting them.

I guess love is different for everyone. Personally, I want to be with my boyfriend all the time. When he's not there, I wish he was. When we're together, I don't want to be anywhere else. Seeing him, or even talking to him on the phone, is the highlight of my day. But I don't think he feels the same way. I know he loves me, but he'd hate the idea of spending all his time with me (or anyone else - he needs his independance)! Love is not being able to imagine not being with the person.

orestes

If you've never wanted to murder someone, you've never been in love.

Chris Rock

Jemmy

Love is not finding the perfect person but by seeing the imperfect person perfectly!