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Could you live without love?

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  • #62
    DarkJager
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    I have been for a while now. My last relationship nearly destroyed me so I've just frozen that whole concept out of my life for now and I'm just getting on with what makes me happy. It might come around again and it might not, honestly does not bother me either way.


  • #63
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    When the person you love loves you back its the greatest feeling in the world.
    When they don't or when they stop its horrible :(


  • #64
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Could indeed.

    Life is better with it though.


  • #65
    downwithpeace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    DB21 wrote: »
    What is love?

    When your beyond nuts for another person,
    When you can't get that person out of your mind,
    When all you want is to be near that person,
    When your removed from that person you feel loss,


  • #66
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    Dudess wrote: »
    Could indeed.

    Life is better with it though.


    Aaaaaw. :(

    You have been hurt.


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  • #67
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,703 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Yes. But not without sex


  • #68
    Kamjana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭Kamjana


    Its better to have loved and lost,than to never loved at all....


  • #69
    Tonyandthewhale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,867 ✭✭✭Tonyandthewhale


    DB21 wrote: »
    What is love?

    When it hurts when they get hurt.


  • #70
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    downwithpeace wrote: »
    When your beyond nuts for another person,
    When you can't get that person out of your mind,
    When all you want is to be near that person,
    When your removed from that person you feel loss,

    Is this not lust though?


  • #71
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Lust is wanting to go to bed with someone
    Love is wanting to wake up with them


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  • #72
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    Dudess wrote: »
    Could indeed.

    Life is better with it though.


    Aaaaaw. :(

    You have been hurt.
    Haven't most of us? :)


  • #73
    LilyCricket
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 232 ✭✭LilyCricket


    Regardless of who you are, who you think you are, there will always be someone who gets you.


  • #74
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Lust is wanting to go to bed with someone
    Love is wanting to wake up with them

    And lust brings you back to bed with them again
    Don't get me wrong
    I'm ALL for lust
    It's just not love
    Love is cleaning up the puke after the person has had the swine flu
    Love is watching that person getting older and changing
    Love is tolerating the person when a tribunal in Brussels would have sent them down
    To me, love is something that takes YEARS to develop
    Our generation is Hollywood-afied
    It's not the case, love is not the movies


  • #75
    downwithpeace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭downwithpeace


    mishkalucy wrote: »
    Is this not lust though?

    No because anytime spent with the person is time well spent ;)


  • #76
    Irishwolff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭Irishwolff


    The King of Moo wrote: »
    If you were on your deathbed and realised you'd never loved or been in love, would you regret it?

    I mostly mean romantic love, but it could also apply to strong familial or platonic love.

    I think it's best to have at least some close intimate relationships, but I also think that a life without that but with good friends and a job/activities you enjoy would be pretty good.

    For balance, here are two contrasting studies on the topic with different outcomes:

    www.sciencetoday/lifeandlove.com

    www.sciencetoday.com/livingwithoutlove.com

    Yes but it maybe hard to regret never been "in love" if you dont know what it feels like to begin with
    But once you know what it feels like it can be like a drug - the love drug


  • #77
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    Love is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do :)

    But in all seriousness, as I get older there are so many things I find stimulating I'm confident I'd be happy living alone. Love is certainly the easiest way to feel very happy though.

    I want both but if I had to choose between making time for everything else and love, love would get the chop.


  • #78
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    downwithpeace wrote: »
    No because anytime spent with the person is time well spent ;)

    I get that
    BELIEVE ME
    I get the lust thing, and that is the starting point for practically every relationship that has ever began
    But that's not love
    It maybe the sparkplugs but it's not the engine


  • #79
    girl2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭girl2


    I just got my heart ripped out of my chest and trampled on. Literally in the last 2 hours, I'm numb. Completely numb. Love has left me now and I will be without it for a very long time.


  • #80
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    I don't believe in love. Every relationship has a time limit.

    How can you not believe in love...that's the same as saying you don't believe in jealousy or sadness or happiness. Human emotions aren't something you believe in or not!

    As for the time limit thing, these couples would probably disagree with you...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_longest_marriages


  • #81
    James T Kirk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,255 ✭✭✭James T Kirk


    In the year 2525, 'love' will be classified as a mental illness.

    And we will have to wear light bulbs on our heads so the cops can see us at all times.


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  • #82
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Also means certain rejection as you approach people
    Means a lot of risk as you open yourself up to someone
    And someone if they turn spiteful could hurt you by blabbing to your mutual friends. Well I'm thinking more of an office romance turned sour here and stories that go around the office. Some could not handle that at all or be able to laugh it off

    You say worthless but being cold and cautious also means zero risk and no hurt.
    Just the other side you know


    Rejection only gets when you don't love and accept yourself.

    You are good enough as you are.


  • #83
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭grindle


    girl2 wrote: »
    I just got my heart ripped out of my chest and trampled on. Literally in the last 2 hours, I'm numb. Completely numb. Love has left me now and I will be without it for a very long time.

    Only if you let that happen.
    Open up your heart and your legs, and love will spread it's wings and hover around your body like a dove/hummingbird hybrid, eager to crash it's waves of throbbing, psychedelic love against the white, sandy beach of your body and mind.


  • #84
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,245 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    You are good enough as you are.
    Are you sure you're in the right century?

    These days, "good enough" is not good enough any more, and no, that's not an oxymoron. Whatever you have, you will be looked down upon for not having more; whatever you do, you will be blamed for not doing more. Whatever it is, you don't have enough of it. :cool:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #85
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    grindle wrote: »
    Only if you let that happen.
    Open up your heart and your legs, and love will spread it's wings and hover around your body like a dove/hummingbird hybrid, eager to crash it's waves of throbbing, psychedelic love against the white, sandy beach of your body and mind.

    You should stop reading those Mills and Boons.


  • #86
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Scanlas The 2nd


    bnt wrote: »
    Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »
    You are good enough as you are.
    Are you sure you're in the right century?

    These days, "good enough" is not good enough any more, and no, that's not an oxymoron. Whatever you have, you will be looked down upon for not having more; whatever you do, you will be blamed for not doing more. Whatever it is, you don't have enough of it. :cool:

    Regardless of what people think, I'm good enough as I am.

    Confused why the century we are in matters.


  • #87
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭grindle


    44leto wrote: »
    You should stop reading those Mills and Boons.

    But they make me feel as if Mount Vesuvius is imploding throughout, hot lava spitting through the rock, impregnating the world with a desire unleashed...


  • #88
    saa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    Psst this is why they tell you to love yourself.
    I'm okay with dying alone, I kind of dread the probable last 20 years of my life living alone in smelly little place with only my dog for company :(


  • #89
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭Feisar


    mishkalucy wrote: »
    I think most people mistake lust for love.
    That heart stopping feeling that you cant live without that person,
    That yearning to know what the other person is doing,
    That thought that the day will not go quickly enough until you see that person,
    That gasping breathless moment until you are physically near to that person,
    That watching, waiting, for contact from that person.
    And when that person has left you side, the anticipation of return,

    Isn't that lust?

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #90
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    What is love?


    (baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more)


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  • #91
    mongdesade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 330 ✭✭mongdesade


    Yes


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