In order for it to be "true love"...

...do both parties have to feel the same way? Is love only considered true if it's mutual?

 

yes.

 

i dont know,
i just lost a woman almost 2 weeks ago whom i loved for a few years...its all relative i suppose...

 

well I guess you can truly love a person and they dont have to love you the same way and it can still be true love, but just when it's like that it hurts and it's not destined to be.

 

ehh

yes
for true love it must be mutual
but you can 'truly be in love' with someone that doesn't love you back

 

I agree with duck on that one. True love is love shared... truly loving someone is a one sided thing.

 

True love is a pretty romantic concept.

Very idealistic too, but it's just something that's hard to believe in.

That true, everlasting love... I do not think that it exists.

Eventually it just comes down to people feeling like just rather die with someone else next to them, then alone.

 

^ awh, that's just narrow-minded and ridiculous
there's so so more to it than that




someone to share your troubles, and to rely on, and someone to keep you happy, and someone there ready for sex, etc. etc.

 

Yeah, sure... but what I'm saying is that all of that runs out... and eventually, you're both 50... and you're only together because you're just so used to each other.

No more true love in there. I've never seen a truly happy married couple that's older than 50.

 

i honestly don't know what love really is
any experience i've had with love has been skewed and twisted at its best
that being said i love the idea of love

 

I have, once.

and everything but the sex stays
you still have troubles and a need (or want) for happiness when you're 50

and I think most people past 50 are prety hard to read the happiness level on too :tongue:

 

my grandmother and grandfather were in their late 70's and so very in love, it was beautiful. When my grandmother got sick and was in the hospital, she would only say that she wanted to be home with her husband, that that's all she wanted. They finally decided to take her home, she got so happy when she got there, so did my grandfather, she also died that same night.
But it was amazing how her mood would instantly change by just being next to him and how they held their hands was just so sweet.
So yeah, I do believe in everlasting love, is just not such a common thing.

 

love should be shared

 

Love is really like a sickness... and a emotion with the worse opposite, alond with other things that can come of love.

-hate
-envy
-rage

It's almost a selfish kind of emotion...

 

i say its also selfless...

 

just cuz you feel it doesnt mean its there

 

I think the keyword to true love is selfless.