What does "love" feel like?

[Alecs1991]

Does it really exist? I mean, I always hear these stories about people falling in love like magic, they meet through friends, at a club, a bar, a class, a wedding etc...and fall in love and just feel this ethereal thing for each other...I mean, it's just really hard for me to picture ? Not saying that it doesn't exist because i'm not even old enough to make that call yet...but I feel like chances are it's just something created in fairy tales and novels and movies and stuff...you know? Like....what does it feel like?

 

[evanrick]

love is a deep emotional connection. thats the only way i can think of it. there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with them. you can love your parents, and can be in love with your partner.

i think you fall in love with someone when you are compatible with them.

but i think women fall in love too quickly because society forces them to, so the end up being hurt and trashed by their husband/bf/whatever.

love is different for men because they do not feel the rush to have children that women do.

i think a lot of people mistake love for something else, such as infatuation or a crush.

if you are in love with someone, you can be heartbroken. if you break up with someone you are infatuated with or have a crush on and cry about it, i dont think they understand what real love is.

 

[Ambrocious]

Love hurts quite often because it is the tireless efforts to keep going on with a relationship even if it should end, love helps you to mend what was broken rather than leaving it broken. Love is not experienced right off the bat when you like someone. Love is built up over time and it is put to the test through life's trials.

That feel good kind of emotion isn't love, it is the desire to grow with that person. Love works it's way into relationships over time and it will often overlook imperfections and forgives more than normally. Love bears through all sorts of problems and so a lot of times, love will be difficult but worth it. Love helps to develop trust in a person. Love waits patiently and it seeks to make the other person better before yourself. Love is protective.


Love is the most complex emotion of all life and it keeps growing to pave the way for a batter life. The beginning of love is brutal but it will grow if you give the other person who you like chances when you fight with them.


Love causes humanity to push forward with everyone else's well being in mind before your own well being. Love CANNOT be applied to anything not alive because true love is symbiotic and it requires two living beings of probable emotions or needs that they can share to experience life together in more beautiful ways than if you had been single.




Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

 

[Lefty]

DISCLAIMER

the following is an opinion and only an opinion. It is not intended as to be

disrespectful to any person or group.

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Love is a many splendored thing. It makes your heart race, It makes your

hands shake and the trilling of birds beautiful. It puts the blue in the sky,

the softness in the night. Love makes you savor the sweetness of life and

adds zest to what could be a banal existence. It is a spiritual growth and it

gives meaning to being. Love is rapture and pain, It is the justification for

the person and all those so involved. Love can be for people, for art, for

philosophy or music. In brief, love is all you need.

Love is also an emotion and as such is totally an ego thing. I, I and I.

I love God (or), I love this. I love that, I love him, I love her, I love them.

I, I and I....an emotion and ego trip to be sure....but the trip everyone

needs to take. Whether it last a day, a week, a moment or a life time, it is

the ultimate gift.

Take it, use it, abuse it, whatever you need to do but own it and you will

own you.

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Oh shit, sorry....deep down I love HALLMARK moments

an ego thing...

 

[Jo-thin]

youll know love when it hits you!
To me my boyfriend is an everyday person hes like family to me and I'm so in love with him, its a very deep feeling its crazy, Words can't really explain it but it will come when you least expect it (I believe)
My boyfriend is my old drummers cousin lmao

 

[conrad]

Try the definition of love some psychiatrists and psychologists use: Love is the settled disposition to seek the good of the other rather than one's own good.

Or, you might agree with the definition as given in I Corinthians 13 by Paul the Christian apostle.

 

[Deandbn]

Love is the thing that sometines comes after the initial 2 or 3 years of being in lust after first meeting, and it is made of trust, honesty, and respect for each other. It is not made of sex.

 

[Alecs1991]

Wow, i actually really like definition Conrad gave...I mean i just feel like some definitions of love are so hard to realize in terms of them actually happening to me...but I guess it's something u have to experience to understand.
And seriously jo-thin? That's awesome!

 

[CTorontoC]

I think Conrad's definition is pretty accurate. My lover and I actively put each other's interests over our own on a regular basis. I guess it's a very boiled down definition but it works. I never believed that true love could exist until I found it for myself and now I can't imagine living without him.

A good example is when I think back on all the negative things that have happened to me in my life and how I would have changed them if I'd had the opportunity I realize that I wouldn't change anything because it was those events that ultimately led me to meet the person I love.

Whenever we are apart, I miss him and his presence can make me feel better at the worst of times. When it comes to sex, where I was once attracted to his physical form I find that now Im more attracted to who he is than anything. I want him because I love him, not just because he's attractive and if for some reason he lost his looks it wouldn't matter to me.

His triumphs are my triumphs, his failures my failures. I think in terms of we and not I. It's a complicated thing to explain but you'll know it when you see it. Our first date lasted 6 hours, and even though we live quite a distance apart we've been together almost every day for the past 2 and some years.

 

[UKWill]

I think true love is one of those essentially indescribable things you will never truly understand until it happens to you.