love is a feeling

last I checked, I didn't receive a bj from a black prostitute

Then you will never know true love.

I see that you address it slightly later on but it should have been in this post. I think you want to change some words around a bit. Lust and not love. You didn't even touch the surface of what love is. There are also varying degrees of love but I also see later on that you would like a definition so I will finish that underneath.

You can be in love and not want to **** the person that you are in love with. The type of love I'm talking about is platonic love. Sure, you love your mother/father but you don't want to engage in sexual relations with them unless you are from Louisiana.

There is romantic love which tends to be a bit superficial based on romantic settings it is pretty much an extended phase of puppy love.

Puppy love is the initial stage when you are completely infatuated with someone but this type of love is part love and part lust. About 75% lust 25% love because you can't really love someone fully if you don't know them that well.

This last type of love I like to call Marriage love with can also be deemed true love. This type of love is after you have known the ins and outs of the person that you are with. You will go out of your way for them and make personal sacrifices sometimes for them. You will put yourself in harms way to protect them. You are also so comfortable with the person that you are able to use the bathroom around them and not care. You are able to get into fights/arguments with them and because of your love for them not take it seriously to the point that you will NEVER talk to them again. The reason the divorce rate is so high is because some people think they have this true love when they really don't. They just have really good romantic love connection but romantic love fades and that's why they have to do things to keep the sparks alive. True love doesn't need this same type of maintenance.

I've never really liked this question. It's something that people say constantly, yet they always say it in such a way that suggests that those are the only two options - either you love and lose, or you're never going to experience love.

I call false. There are people who fall in love, stay with their first love, and remain happily married for their entire lives.

This, to me, is just a dumb saying that doesn't really mean a whole hell of a lot. If you never love at all, then you never know what you're missing anyway. So who's to say which is better, really?

I don't think it's a dumb saying it just depends on how the person feels upon answering. Mostly the people that answer never to have loved at all. They are so hurt by a previous experience and are bitter about it that they wish they never had to feel that way ever.

"love is a feeling"? of what?

there is only one kind of love.. all the other words attached to it like "romantic" "platonic"... whatever... serves to describe another feeling but that's not what love is.

ex: you can romance without love and you can love without romance. it doesn't change what love is.

my point is... love is unconditional and eternal. when love ends, that's not love at all. it's a contradiction. when there is a condition. that's not love. again that's a contradiction. the minutere there is condition, the minute there is a time frame... that's not love.

cut off my ears, take all my money, kill everyone important to me and i love you anyway. now, I will never feel that for anyone. I don't know if there is anyone capable of feeling that. maybe a parent to a child?

there have been too many times when someone has called me "idealistic" for my definition. they said we are humans so it's natural that we respect ourselves first. that is why we stop loving when we get hurt too much. but love is supposed to be the greatest of all feeling. it's supposed to be above every feeling, emotion and value.

Love is obviously the emotional equivalent of bigfoot, in that case.

What is love?

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."

Most accurate definition of love I have ever read.

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Wow, I love that description. That's pretty much the perfect way to explain love.

Of course not. I still stand by what I said, though. Everyone needs to experience it. It taught me a lot about myself.