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Define love - possible?

Here, i have seen a lot of confusion from people regarding to defining whether they are in love or not and also not knowing what love actually is. my gathering is that to be in love/love someone are two different things. so i'll just put some things down which i feel is my perespective of love. feel free to add everyone.

to be in love:
- to wake up in the morning and feel empty without your loved one.
- to bike across the whole town in a blizzard/heavy rain to a party in the hope that you'll catch a glimpse of your loved one.

to love someone:
-putting them first. having all their interests/feelings at heart. maybe to the point that you would sacrifice your life for them.

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Reply 1

herbal bug

love for me you only know it once you're in love..

my definition is "giving someone the power to love you and destroy you and trusting them enough to belive that they won't do so."

Reply 2

SilverWings

herbal bug

love for me you only know it once you're in love..

my definition is "giving someone the power to love you and destroy you and trusting them enough to belive that they won't do so."

I'm pretty sure that's also the definition of 'stupid'

Reply 3

notontsranymore

well yes, love can make you stupid so its a valid point.

Reply 4

daniel_williams

love is an overwhelming feeling that you can encounter, it makes you want to be with that person for the rest of your days, it is also the emotional bond to someone who you have a great passion for and you value their life as much as your own.

Reply 5

jumpinglunch

Love has a meaning,but it cannot be defined.It can only be experienced.

Reply 6

Ron Stoppable

Yo TC!

Have a read of this. It might transcend all the (sensible) replies you get in this thread.

By the way,

TopCat06

to bike across the whole town in a blizzard/heavy rain to a party in the hope that you'll catch a glimpse of your loved one.

is just dire infatuation, aka unreciprocated love. It really does help to know them first. :rolleyes:

Reply 7

notontsranymore

Ron Stoppable

Yo TC!

Have a read of this. It might transcend all the (sensible) replies you get in this thread.

By the way,is just dire infatuation, aka unreciprocated love. It really does help to know them first. :rolleyes:

nah it was all in the past. i am wiser now (i think :biggrin:

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Reply 8

polarbear89

for me, love is that feeling when im with my boyfriend. but also when im alone the feeling i get which reminds me im the luckiest girl in the world.

Reply 9

symphonic

tesh^^

Love has a meaning, but it cannot be defined. It can only be experienced.

What they said.

Reply 10

Boon!

Love is the souls recognition of its counter point in another.

:tongue:

Reply 11

Cristoir

love isn't a single sentiment or feeling nor can it be defined definitively in fact psychologists have suggested that love comprises several different factors (commitment,physical & intimate) different combinations of these three factors produce different types of love.

Reply 12

Cherry Kisses

tesh^^

Love has a meaning,but it cannot be defined.It can only be experienced.

Im using this as my msn name :smile:

Reply 13

Anonymous #1

You can't define being in love or love liek that at all.
It's asif you just read it from a dictionary.
The person themself will know if they are in love or not, if they aren't sure then they should wait and ask themselves that very same question again are they in love or do they love that person.
You would risk your life for your family because you love them and your friends too, i know i would.
I am IN love atm with my Boyfriend, i know there difference and i know that i am because i have experienced it in two different situations. I thought when i was going out with my ex that i loved him but i realised in the relationship itself that i didn't even love him that i was just wanting to be in love. Which is infatuation easily mixed up.

Reply 14

2nd2god

You cant define love properley
because everyones concept of the idea of love is different
due to enviornment and genetic makeup
everyone has a different perception of love

you can maybe try and work on common ground but you are just using the basics not properley defining it

even if everyone sensed the same things people would percieve it differently
because different people apply different concepts to what they sense

Reply 15

Bread and Circlejerks

I'mma just repost what I posted the last time someone brought this up:

I think that love is a social construct designed to glamorise and elevate to another plane what would otherwise just be actions and feelings between two people.

It stems from a desire to make aspects of human relationships seem ineffable or transcendental, and therefore somehow more special and significant.

Personally, I don't really believe in 'love'. I think that what goes on between two people can be 'reduced' to actions and words and simpler, more easily verifiable emotions like happiness, desire, admiration and affection.

This might seem like kind of a cold, materialistic standpoint, but I find it actually quite liberating. You don't have to wait for Cupid to shove an arrow up your arse that's tipped with just the right kind of pixie-dust. There is nothing that happens between us that we don't understand and cannot explain.

Recently [well, not so recently now] I really liked a girl, and she gave the impression that she liked me just as much. A few days later, she was talking about the absence of a 'spark', and I despaired. I don't see how right-thinking people can believe in things like that.

But maybe that's just me.

"I see no reason why what goes on between two people needs to be processed in this language of mystification."

Reply 16

AverageGuyOnTheStreet

I love my best friend, but as a friend. He has been an absolute legend over the last few months.

To me love is a close friendship (I don't do all that relationships stuff - not for me). So actually I love a lot of my friends, but not so much the acquaintances.

I think someone's already said that you can't define love as it means different things to different people. I agree with that point.

Reply 17

Nally

[On what love is like]
Danny: You know how when you're listening to music playing from another room? And you're singing along because it's a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes so you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway... then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again you're still in exact same time with it. That's what it's like.

from 'Music from Another Room'