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Reply 1

It's hard to tell, my guess is if you think about them constantly, you just want to spend every second with them, you'd do anythign for them even if your life depended on it etc

Reply 2

it's not romeo n juliet...

i suppose it's when you don't feel sick when if you've spent the whole week/month/year with eachother...and how when you accept their flaws

Reply 3

when you have total trust

Reply 4

Nah, I totally trust some people I don't love.

Reply 5

When you still want to hang out with the person even if (s)he has the stomach flu and is vomiting all over the place.
Hahahaha :smile: I suppose it's a very individual decision whether you love someone or not ... there's no set way to really know, I guess.

Reply 6

I know i love my boyfriend because i think about how every action might effect him before i do it. He's the priority.

There's loads of other stuff too, but that's particularly relevant to him over other relationships i have, rather than trust and wanting to spend time with them. That's obviously necessary as well though. xx

Reply 7

True love? Supposedly you know it when you feel it, but there's no way to describe it.

Reply 8

hmm its tricky... countless people have thought theyre in love and realise afterwards that they weren't. there's a fine line between infatuation and being in love/loving someone.
i think especially in the early stages in a relationship it's hard to tell, if it's all passionate and amazing, i think it's only as things go on and you start to perhaps see their flaws that you know for sure... if you know that your boyf can sometimes be a a bit *insert flaw here* but that more often than not you can still stare at him dreamily ffrom across the room its probably genuine lurrve.
i dont know if trust is a mark of love... i love my boyfriend but i dont know yet if i can entirely trust him, but thats just because i have difficulties and feel vulnerable putting myself on the line. i think love is a gut feeling, and that when youre at your most rational and not feeling all romantic and loved up, and you still think, wow, this guy is amazing, then i think it's love.

Reply 9

It doesn't have to be the physical things - that's just adrenaline really. I can't explain it, you just know.

Reply 10

KSPaige
When you still want to hang out with the person even if (s)he has the stomach flu and is vomiting all over the place.

That's right! :biggrin:
I suddenly realized I was in love when I was crying in my bed cos I couldn't be with him. Got him now though. :biggrin: Albeit far far away..

Reply 11

Depends what you mean by infatuation but surely a type of infatuation is involved in love? feeling hopelessly besotted is infatuation, and if i was to be in love, i'd hope that that feeling was evident...

Reply 12

i hate to sound cliche but when you are in love you just know. it feels different to anything else youve felt for someone before......oh dammit i sounded cliche......

Reply 13

my grandad apparently told my father 'you should only ever tell a person you love them if you're prepared to walk down the aisle with them'. a bit extreme i think but certainly there is some truth to that advice...the way people sling the word 'love' around is sad i think. it is NOT just an emotional feeling, it's also a logical choice, considering compatability of personalities/intellect/beliefs/goals/outlooks on life etc. Plus lust. Plus trust. Plus the conscious decision to care for them no matter what. and wanting to see them happy, even if that means they'e not with you if that's not what's best for them. complicated stuff, love.

Reply 14

You feel like vomiting.

No, really, there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with them, though.

Just don't ask me what it is.

Reply 15

Objet trouvé
You feel like vomiting.

No, really, there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with them, though.

Just don't ask me what it is.

I think you mean there's a difference between an infatuation and really loving someone. :smile:

Reply 16

A good quote, from an unknown person:
"Love at first sight turns rancid and the second glance."

To me being in Love means that you have grown to love, accept and integrate every part of someone else into your life and being. It doesn't happen overnight, it takes time and friendship to reach that level. Just my idea though.

Reply 17

grace
my grandad apparently told my father 'you should only ever tell a person you love them if you're prepared to walk down the aisle with them'. a bit extreme i think but certainly there is some truth to that advice...the way people sling the word 'love' around is sad i think. it is NOT just an emotional feeling, it's also a logical choice, considering compatability of personalities/intellect/beliefs/goals/outlooks on life etc. Plus lust. Plus trust. Plus the conscious decision to care for them no matter what. and wanting to see them happy, even if that means they'e not with you if that's not what's best for them. complicated stuff, love.


uhuhuhuuhuhuh.. thats why now, when i really mean the word il have to think a thousand times whether i can see myself being her husband.. if not, then its not worth it.. why??? because im gonna hurt the woman in the end.. letting her expect all that -_-

Reply 18

SolInvincitus
A good quote, from an unknown person:
"Love at first sight turns rancid and the second glance."

To me being in Love means that you have grown to love, accept and integrate every part of someone else into your life and being. It doesn't happen overnight, it takes time and friendship to reach that level. Just my idea though.

That's right. :smile: If not, it's an infatuation, not Love. It's why I prefer being close friends first and then move on to bf/gf.

Reply 19

You just feel it. You just know. It's not something that exists independently of you; if it's there, you feel it.

And it's amazing when you do :biggrin: