What is love?

How does it feel to fall in love?
I mean, half the songs out there are written about love. Seems to be some sort of longing within us all for love, a search for that special someone.
So im curious what you all think or have found?

 

unconditional

 

what is love
baby dont hurt me
dont hurt me
no more.

 

idk really
I believed I knew once... I was really really wrong.
I'm prolly just too young
I'll let ya know if I ever find out

 

Love is different to everyone and every single love is different.

Love cannot be defined in such limited terms.

If I wanted to be a **** I'd say it was a chemical reaction in the brain, which it is, but I'm not feeling cuntish.

 

love is just an abstract concept, something we use to describe certain emotions, often instilled because of the fulfilment of certain basic needs like acceptance and understanding. that is why we long for this mysterious and fabled "love;" we have these needs we'd like satisfied and since love is such a vague concept, we use that universal word to describe an array of emotions.

like Socks says, sometimes there is a chemical reaction in the brain and we are quick to describe this as being "in love" when really it is just our genetic programming, another ploy by mother nature to give us humans incentive to reproduce. being in love and actual "love" are two very different things, but with modern day romanticism we tend to confuse the two and think we have found true love when really we're just in love. the chemical reaction eventually wears off, but if we have developed mutual feelings of acceptance, understanding, caring, respect, etc then the relationship could last forever.

romantic love is an idealistic idea, and should be discarded. "love," the way I see it, is very important in any relationship, but if one or both people have romantic notions then they are destined for disappointment when the perception of the relationship is inevitably destroyed by harsh and cruel reality. romance is nice, sure, as long as we hold realistic expectations of eachother and realize that our partners will fuck up, as they are no more flawless than we are.

 

Thankyou.
I have my own views on love, actual love, but not as part of a relationship. I have never experienced what it is like to fall in love/be in love so that is why i am asking. To try and get a better understanding of the thing we all seem to think so much about.

 

a word in the dictionary, that emotional attatchment, sometimes refered to as codependence, is freequently mistaken for.

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Love is more than just pink hearts, roses, butterflies in tummy...That's really all a facade...

Love to me is a deep bond you have with someone, not romance/lust/Hallmark Card or anything but a hard understanding with that person to where you are completely comfortable with each other that you develop this deep friendship to where you don't need to be all lovey-dovey... To where both people see the deep crust of each other and not some silly gimmick, but the deep deep root of one another...

 

really dig your answer, shroom.

 

^ What she said. Philosopher Shroomie to the rescue.

 

Whoever said, "Love is never having to say you're sorry," is an idiot.

 

Love is reality. The cause of our existance is love that we dont deserve, but we have it anyway. We dont know what real love is, we can only emulate it on a microcosmic scale. When you can truly love everyone and everything, you found God for what it's worth. Until then,
Namaste

 

love is a score of zero.

 

true that

 

Tree, may I ask why you say this?

 

Because I'm always having to apologize.

 

Understood friend
namaste _