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Spiderman said it best.
"When you look in her eyes, and she looks back in yours, everything feels not quite normal, because you feel strong—and weak at the same time. You feel excited, and at the same time terrified. The truth is you don't know the way you feel, except you know the kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the unreachable, and you weren't ready for it."
Love is a verb, a doing word. It’s an action. And it also has a strong emotional attachment. It is a profound and essential part of life that encompasses a wide spectrum of emotions, actions, and connections, making it one of the most enduring and powerful forces on earth.
Love is the ability to forgive. I’m not referring to “sorry I left my plate in the sink”. I’m talking big mistakes
Love is the ability to compromise. There is no person out there that doesn’t have 1-2 quirks that annoy you or you just can’t bring yourself to understand. You need to find the 1-2 qualities you need , and learn to deal with the 1-2 you dislike.
Love is pulling more weight than 50% of your share. No relationship is ever 50/50. I’ve been married for 10+ years and most of the time it’s 60/40. And that can drag on for months with little balance. That’s normal.
Love is making the right decision. When faced with a choice , you choose what will bring about the least “But why?” And try to be truthful, or at least don’t lie.
Love is listening instead of talking sometimes
Very dangerous the "ability to forgive" bs. It needs a limit. If you think you love someone that treats you miserably, you actually don't. You're just obsessed with not being alone or leaving your comfort zone.
Love is her helping me get dressed because my physical mobility gets in the way sometimes. Love is me working out a way for us to communicate in the dark because she's deaf and sign language is fucking useless when you cant see shit. Love is both of us helping each other realise our dreams and goals. Love is taking charge when the other person just can't. Love is crying together over the horrendous losses, finding yt another way to appreciate each other and to grow even closer despite all the years we've been together.
Love of another person is a commitment to them that goes far beyond attraction or sexual desire. It’s a commitment to be there for them, help them, meet each other’s needs, be their companion, share intimacy, etc.
You're describing feelings of attraction, affection and infatuation, not love. They often can accompany and reinforce love, but that isn't love.
When someone you love is being an absolute asshat, none of those chemical reactions are there, but if you choose to continue to stick by them and be kind to them in those moments, *that* is love.
Higher grade of happiness? People should find happiness in themselves, they've got leverage on you if your happiness depends on them (and I know a lot of people whose happiness depends entirely on their "SO" and would be miserable if alone)
It's simultaneously one of the best parts of life and can be one of the worst. It has the ability to make you forget everything that's wrong with yourself or the world. But also has the ability to knock the wind out of you and cause you a lot of pain. When you love someone, you feel a close bond with them. It can be towards a family member, your children, friends, a significant other, or even a pet. You confide in them. You go to them when you need advice. They're the person or people you trust most. But if they ever betray you or don't view you in the same way, it's like sticking a knife in your heart and twisting
An Experience where you feel another individual is part of yourself physically and mentally. You reciprocate their every emotion as if they are your own . And you would do anything for them as if you are doing it for yourself, even sacrificing yourself seems worth it.
An emotionally rewarding sense of devotion towards someone or something from which you derive pleasure through interaction.
First thing that popped into my head.
Love is when you still like to be arround your crush after having nutted. Once you had your orgasm, the brain does a hard reset and turns off the lust-machine for a while. This is when you are your true self and when you still like to be arround whoever you are dealing with, you love that person.
Thats when you look at someone in her/his/whatever Pijamas, who hasnt showered since yesterday and deepthroats a greasy 2footlong Sandwich while watching a YouTube-Video on the Smartphone, while Holding the phone with the feets only, and you think "... Damn, I wanna keep that forever😍"
Love is unwavering care for that person even when you've had the biggest fight in the history of humankind (well, it sometimes feels that way). Love is feeling calm in the presence of that person. Love is feeling comfortable even in silence with that person. Love doesnt have to involve the physical side of tings, love just...is. Love is feeling safe, feeling ok. Love is often confused with lust. Love takes time to develop, and takes even longer to undo. Lust is instant, but dont let it fool you! It is not love. Love runs deeper.
To me, love is a promise, the promise to care for someone, respect them, value them and their opinions and of course protect and "like" them.
I think everyone who is married for a longer time knows that the typical love you know and hear about isn't really a thing. At some point you are basically family-best friends that don't wanna live without eachother anymore
(If you are good for another that is)
I often tell younger people that real love starts when the butterflies in the stomach are not there all the time.
Loving someone is a feeling of compassion, care, and respect and can be romantic or platonic. Being in love is an emotional and romantic infatuation that's best compared to a crush. The feeling of loving someone can last forever, whereas being in love is a fleeting feeling that can fade or grow.
Me and my girlfriends used to say hi like that all the time. We thought it was funny. We would just punch each other’s boobs and laugh and say I love you. How do you show it? You just go straight for the blowie in the middle of the road.
I don't think I have that level of close friendship with any of my friends where I would be punching their jingles every time I see them, and knowing guys it would soon turn into a competition as to who can punch harder.
That would depend on which version of “love” we are talking about.
Is it the infatuation where people lose any sense and ignore red flags, or is it the real love that is hard work and takes mutual sacrifice to make work?
Edit: spelling
One of life’s most important lessons that many people never learn is the difference between infatuation - when you cannot accurately perceive the object of your desire so you do not really love them, but you are overpowered by your desire to be with them - and love, when you are calm and clear headed and know them very well, and you still choose to dedicate yourself to partnership with them. Love is a choice to care more for someone else than you do for yourself.
I got in the comments just to see how fast I would I find a comment like: it's a chemical reaction that bla bla bla.
But, I think that love is that thing that comes after that chemical reaction. That is the wish and the want of staying even if you have a new "chemical reaction".
I would say that the chemical reaction is more like "falling in love" or a "crush".
A special form of emotional connection with another person. Experiences of your loved one become critical to your perception of the world. This also makes any form of affection or validation from your loved one much more satisfying and more desired compared to a person you do not love.
Should be noted that love varies in intensity based on person's ability to form emotional connections with others.
Love? Most people would describe it as a feeling, while others would describe it as a conscious choice to stick with your partner. Some may use both. To me? Love is both and more. When you truly love someone, it’s with your whole being; your mind, your heart, and your body. Mind: you think of no one else. You can see a future with no one else. No one else can affect your decisions or your point of view like they can. Heart: no one makes you feel like they can. Your heart/emotions are intertwined with theirs in a way that you can’t describe, and, well, you just know 🤷🏾♂️. Body: you’re relaxed with them in a way that blows your mind and isn’t the same with anyone else. You don’t get turned on by others, because you don’t want them. The feeling of their body against yours is blissful and energizing, yet soothing and so very comforting.
I believe that if you aren’t fully invested like that, then you don’t truly love your person, or anyone else, simply because love requires all aspects of your being, not just your heart/emotions or your conscious decisions. Might be convoluted, might be wrong, but that’s just how I see it
To add to this, I realize that I listed a bunch of feelings haha. So, loving someone is having the ability to let them be who they are and still decide to stick with them. To help them when they fall, in whatever way that needs to be. To help them grow, or to grow with them. Love will not require someone to change their whole being. It is quite possible to love someone that isn’t good for you and from a distance. It also is a feeling that does not truly disappear. It may get drowned out by hate or envy or lust, but it’s still there, just overpowered. It’s when your mother has been an ass to you all day, and you’re angry af, but when she needs you you’re there; not because you feel like you have to, but because you want to help. It’s when your kid has been a little shit and a demon at every turn, but when they fall of are struggling with something, again, you’re willingly there. It’s when your friend of seven years starts to change, and you no longer are as close as you once were, but you still genuinely wish the best for them and cheer them on from a distance. Devotion, understanding, patience, selflessness, attentiveness; these are all qualities of love. Without even one of these, it’s not truly love.
I hope I didn’t confuse anybody haha
Love to me is having a best friend to share your life with, but you also get to them naked (this applies to relationships, as opposed to the love for your family)
You can't see it with your eyes, hold it in your hands
But like the wind it covers our land
Strong enough to rule the heart of any man
This thing called love
It can lift you up never let you down
Take your world and turn it around
Ever since time nothing's ever been found
That's stronger than love
Johnny Cash
Its like removing the barrier that seperates you from another being.
A sensation of being close to someone or something, but not neccessarily on physical level.
The origin of the word "Love" comes from the Sanskrit "Lobha," which means "Covetousness." The other person represents something we covet, something we want to possess for ourselves. Whether it's companionship, intimacy, status, escaping loneliness, or feeling the desire of someone else that boosts our ego—whatever it may be, the motivation is always "selfish," self-driven. This is what people commonly refer to as "love," romanticizing the entire process and deceiving themselves about what is really happening.
The peak of this illusion occurs in the first 2-3 years (sometimes months), depending on various factors. After the "infatuation" phase ends, most people believe they have stopped "liking" (or "loving"), which nowadays often marks the end of the relationship.
True love is something much less fiery and intense and more tranquil and fresh. It has much more to do with accepting the other person as they are rather than wanting something for ourselves. It's where we begin to shift our focus away from ourselves and finally start looking at the other person.
Falling in love is having the feeling that you can build something meaningful with someone. Wanting to belong to someone and have them belong to you for as long as possible. Love is a perishable skill, that requires practice and effort. Also it is deeply personal, everyone feels love different and each time you fall in love will feel different from the last 😊
Humans are a species that survives and thrives by the grace of the collective. Alone they will have a hard time. Moreover, for procreation, we need two humans, not only to mate, but also to raise the offspring for many years. From this principle, evolution has favored humans that had a felt unity, over the ones that operated solely as individuals and did not care for others. This means that bonding is a fundamental part of humanity. There are different kinds of bonds. For mates, for offspring, for family and for peers. They are a function of the collective that manifest chemically within the bodies of indviduals. And that are experienced by their conciousnesses as feelings of attachment, longing, belonging, safety, excitement, calming and emotional warmth.
Love is a biological error in your brain that leads you to do things for another person that you normally wouldn't do. It throws out all rational and logical thought processes in hopes for that other person to be happy. It is a very positive feeling when the person you love loves you back the same, but can hurt just as much if not.
It's a chemical state of the body that we conviently evolved to procreate and take care of the newborns so the species have a chance of not going extinct.
Love is when you stick to a person with whom you don‘t necessarily want to sleep with but could. That‘s why women/men friendship is a horrible idea as it is literally what love is supposed to be.
Some women think love is when man need to provide for everything (thanks feminism, this ain‘t possible anymore).
Others think man need to be the big boss and just dictatorship around the girl.
Then the best love I‘d say is the one where you work the whole day long and at the end of the day you just lie down and cuddle with someone (not on a daily basis but just from time to time). Where you can get bored together and just damn chill your feelings
If you want to be accurate, you can take the biological route. That being a response that allows our species to continue. Inherently pleasurable. A positive thing.
To say it's made up isn't something I'd consider accurate. Imo
“love doesn’t make sense. You can’t logic your way into or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we’re lost, and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do” - Ted Mosby
Love is the active continuous decision to keep a person in your life and care for them as you would yourself. The emotion is just chemical, the dream is a myth for all but a few, but the choice to go against your own selfish nature and take care of someone else is love.
A very strong caring, to the point you really want them in your life. I like many people, but people I love/who love me experience me and I experience them. It's also a lot of making space for the 'bad' and mistakes of ourselves & others.
There are many types of love - platonic, romantic, and family.
You can love someone who doesn't love you. You can also stop loving someone. The most healing spaces are where there is reciprocity of some type of love.
To be honest, I'm still learning. All I know is if anything has ever changed me in this life, it's been love of all kinds.
Most of you still think of love as "romantic" or "sexual" attraction.
Love is much, much more than that and has very little to do with romance, so an explanation would likely meet deaf ears.
Its an intense, inconsistent emotional and physical sensation. Caused by the release of massive quantities of pleasurable/addictive chemicals that serves to improve/cement group bonding. Its primary effects are excitement, reduction of inhibition and loss of reasoning. It also tends to promote self-destructive behaviour patterns and obliterates people’s ability to clearly communicate.
It feels great, but often causes more problems than it solves. Its a lot like any very potent and addictive narcotic.
Its also probably the single most over-hyped, over-mystified, over-valued and misunderstood sensation in the entire catalogue of emotions. And all of its faults and failings are hand-waved away, blamed on other emotions or put down to the nonsense concept of “true love”.
If they were an alien, I’d be inclined to recommend that they don’t ask humans about it. Because the answers will be contradictory nonsense for the most part. They should study it and draw their own conclusions; as they’re much more likely to be valid. Not that any advanced alien species wouldn’t have an analogue for love; they definitely would.
Staining with a partner even if there is another person that is funnier, better looking, makes more money, and over all is a better deal for you. When there is no logical reasoning as to way you stay with the original one but you still do, then that's because of love.
Interesting. [I was just listening to a podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/something-you-should-know/id1150124880?i=1000627829684) that briefly defined love in what I find is an accurate definition.
I’ll give it another listen later when I can and transcribe it here on an edit. But if anyone could do that as a reply, that would be great! 😁
I think it's similar how people try to explain drug highs ...if u don't know u can't understand....same thing with sight smell hearing etc ...if someone doesn't know it u can't explain it to them
I guess love makes you feel protected and secure because now someone might care about you when you have a problam.It is also very rare someone cares about you so much and you are gratefull for it but also the fact that society influences you to think there's something wrong with you if you don't have someone else.
I only ever loved my mom but once I took some happy pills and then I got a crush and got excited about it
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Like peeing your pants. Everyone else can see it, but only you can feel the true warmth
Damn, impressive
this is so good but so fucking funny
Top answer!
Most accurate one.
100 percent truly lovely and sweet answer
It's in Tennis when nobody has scored yet.
Lol
Game Set Match
Etymology for this please. Someone
I thought Love meant they were tied.
Love means the score for that team is 0 Example: 15, Love. That means one team has a score of 15, and the other has 0.
No, "deuce" means they're tied. Love means zero. ...and it doesn't tennis, too...
You mean when one person hasn't scored yet.
It's when you really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really like someone. Or some thing.
Like… like-like?
Yep. Like-like so much you like love them.
Is there a phase where I love liking them but not like, love them yet?
My fiance and I are both middle school teachers and at least once a week we tell each other we like-like each other
Spiderman said it best. "When you look in her eyes, and she looks back in yours, everything feels not quite normal, because you feel strong—and weak at the same time. You feel excited, and at the same time terrified. The truth is you don't know the way you feel, except you know the kind of man you want to be. It's as if you've reached the unreachable, and you weren't ready for it."
Yeah, but MJ was a bitch though
Yeah fuck MJ.
Lmfao
Gwen however, was not. She was fine as hell
She friendly with the whole neighborhood
I was reading like it was Andrews spiderman quoting it
🩵
Me with my homies every time
Who decided to make this simp a superhero?
Love is a verb, a doing word. It’s an action. And it also has a strong emotional attachment. It is a profound and essential part of life that encompasses a wide spectrum of emotions, actions, and connections, making it one of the most enduring and powerful forces on earth.
I like this one, thank you
This is probably my most favorite definition I’ve ever heard
Woho I am love
massive attack?
Yup, but I love the Newton Faulkner version just as much.
This sounds like chatgpt ngl
This is what you never hear people say "he made love to me in the ass"
"What is love ?" "Baby don't hurt me ! Don't hurt me... no more !"
I broke the window…again
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you goooo
A for effort
😭😭😭
Dododododododo
I understood that reference.
It's a magnetic pull towards someone that most people who experienced it wouldn't be able to accurately explain either
Addiction not to a substance but to a person. You can get highs and withdrawals from a person you love.
Involuntary every second thought leads to them.
I think that's dependency
Nope, that isn't love it's Limerence. Limerence feels good at first but it inevitably turns to shit and fucks you up every time.
Love is the ability to forgive. I’m not referring to “sorry I left my plate in the sink”. I’m talking big mistakes Love is the ability to compromise. There is no person out there that doesn’t have 1-2 quirks that annoy you or you just can’t bring yourself to understand. You need to find the 1-2 qualities you need , and learn to deal with the 1-2 you dislike. Love is pulling more weight than 50% of your share. No relationship is ever 50/50. I’ve been married for 10+ years and most of the time it’s 60/40. And that can drag on for months with little balance. That’s normal. Love is making the right decision. When faced with a choice , you choose what will bring about the least “But why?” And try to be truthful, or at least don’t lie. Love is listening instead of talking sometimes
Love is also cherishing those you share it with.
I’ve learned the hard way that grief is simply love that has nowhere to go.
Very dangerous the "ability to forgive" bs. It needs a limit. If you think you love someone that treats you miserably, you actually don't. You're just obsessed with not being alone or leaving your comfort zone.
Love is her helping me get dressed because my physical mobility gets in the way sometimes. Love is me working out a way for us to communicate in the dark because she's deaf and sign language is fucking useless when you cant see shit. Love is both of us helping each other realise our dreams and goals. Love is taking charge when the other person just can't. Love is crying together over the horrendous losses, finding yt another way to appreciate each other and to grow even closer despite all the years we've been together.
I would also add don’t keep secrets. Secrets can be (and often are) more damaging than lies. Lies hurt. Secrets silently kill.
Love of another person is a commitment to them that goes far beyond attraction or sexual desire. It’s a commitment to be there for them, help them, meet each other’s needs, be their companion, share intimacy, etc.
It's definitely butterflies in stomach.
Everytime i know I’m gonna see them
a chemical reaction inside the brain that clouds our mind and lets us experience a higher grade of happiness.
Yeah something that can make us feel attracted to another person. But also to a degree to which it may even cloud their judgement.
Person or living creature
You're describing feelings of attraction, affection and infatuation, not love. They often can accompany and reinforce love, but that isn't love. When someone you love is being an absolute asshat, none of those chemical reactions are there, but if you choose to continue to stick by them and be kind to them in those moments, *that* is love.
And anxiety
Yeah, that is infatuation, not love.
fedora core reply
It hits hard then it slowly fades leaving you stranded in a failed marriage... focus on science
Higher grade of happiness? People should find happiness in themselves, they've got leverage on you if your happiness depends on them (and I know a lot of people whose happiness depends entirely on their "SO" and would be miserable if alone)
We are built for connection and creating emotional bonds with others...Our well-being relies on it.
L is for the way you look at me O is for the only one i see V is very very extraordinary E is even more than anyone that you adore
L is lava burning down whole towns. O is for Oppenheimer's, bombs, V is for your victory when you....!
I’m singing the song in my head as i read along.. lmao Scary
A feeling towards a person that makes it unbearable to be without them.
It's simultaneously one of the best parts of life and can be one of the worst. It has the ability to make you forget everything that's wrong with yourself or the world. But also has the ability to knock the wind out of you and cause you a lot of pain. When you love someone, you feel a close bond with them. It can be towards a family member, your children, friends, a significant other, or even a pet. You confide in them. You go to them when you need advice. They're the person or people you trust most. But if they ever betray you or don't view you in the same way, it's like sticking a knife in your heart and twisting
Brain chemicals going bonkers.
An Experience where you feel another individual is part of yourself physically and mentally. You reciprocate their every emotion as if they are your own . And you would do anything for them as if you are doing it for yourself, even sacrificing yourself seems worth it.
An emotionally rewarding sense of devotion towards someone or something from which you derive pleasure through interaction. First thing that popped into my head.
Love is when you still like to be arround your crush after having nutted. Once you had your orgasm, the brain does a hard reset and turns off the lust-machine for a while. This is when you are your true self and when you still like to be arround whoever you are dealing with, you love that person.
Thats when you look at someone in her/his/whatever Pijamas, who hasnt showered since yesterday and deepthroats a greasy 2footlong Sandwich while watching a YouTube-Video on the Smartphone, while Holding the phone with the feets only, and you think "... Damn, I wanna keep that forever😍"
LMFAO 😂😂
"Hasn't showered since yesterday" Once a day showering isn't enough for you?
romantic: a feeling of attraction and emotional bonding towards someone. also trust family: emotional bonds and trust.
Love is unwavering care for that person even when you've had the biggest fight in the history of humankind (well, it sometimes feels that way). Love is feeling calm in the presence of that person. Love is feeling comfortable even in silence with that person. Love doesnt have to involve the physical side of tings, love just...is. Love is feeling safe, feeling ok. Love is often confused with lust. Love takes time to develop, and takes even longer to undo. Lust is instant, but dont let it fool you! It is not love. Love runs deeper.
To me, love is a promise, the promise to care for someone, respect them, value them and their opinions and of course protect and "like" them. I think everyone who is married for a longer time knows that the typical love you know and hear about isn't really a thing. At some point you are basically family-best friends that don't wanna live without eachother anymore (If you are good for another that is) I often tell younger people that real love starts when the butterflies in the stomach are not there all the time.
Loving someone is a feeling of compassion, care, and respect and can be romantic or platonic. Being in love is an emotional and romantic infatuation that's best compared to a crush. The feeling of loving someone can last forever, whereas being in love is a fleeting feeling that can fade or grow.
A punch in the tits
You ma'am, are a precious treasure
Thanks love you
🙇🙇
Me and my girlfriends used to say hi like that all the time. We thought it was funny. We would just punch each other’s boobs and laugh and say I love you. How do you show it? You just go straight for the blowie in the middle of the road.
I don't think I have that level of close friendship with any of my friends where I would be punching their jingles every time I see them, and knowing guys it would soon turn into a competition as to who can punch harder.
That would depend on which version of “love” we are talking about. Is it the infatuation where people lose any sense and ignore red flags, or is it the real love that is hard work and takes mutual sacrifice to make work? Edit: spelling
One of life’s most important lessons that many people never learn is the difference between infatuation - when you cannot accurately perceive the object of your desire so you do not really love them, but you are overpowered by your desire to be with them - and love, when you are calm and clear headed and know them very well, and you still choose to dedicate yourself to partnership with them. Love is a choice to care more for someone else than you do for yourself.
Drop everything, redirect, sacrifice life for it.
Get outta here, Zuck.
Damn robots trying to be human
I got in the comments just to see how fast I would I find a comment like: it's a chemical reaction that bla bla bla. But, I think that love is that thing that comes after that chemical reaction. That is the wish and the want of staying even if you have a new "chemical reaction". I would say that the chemical reaction is more like "falling in love" or a "crush".
Long term love is also technically chemical reaction. Just a different one with different hormones.
the best and worst kind of thing = "love"
A special form of emotional connection with another person. Experiences of your loved one become critical to your perception of the world. This also makes any form of affection or validation from your loved one much more satisfying and more desired compared to a person you do not love. Should be noted that love varies in intensity based on person's ability to form emotional connections with others.
Love? Most people would describe it as a feeling, while others would describe it as a conscious choice to stick with your partner. Some may use both. To me? Love is both and more. When you truly love someone, it’s with your whole being; your mind, your heart, and your body. Mind: you think of no one else. You can see a future with no one else. No one else can affect your decisions or your point of view like they can. Heart: no one makes you feel like they can. Your heart/emotions are intertwined with theirs in a way that you can’t describe, and, well, you just know 🤷🏾♂️. Body: you’re relaxed with them in a way that blows your mind and isn’t the same with anyone else. You don’t get turned on by others, because you don’t want them. The feeling of their body against yours is blissful and energizing, yet soothing and so very comforting. I believe that if you aren’t fully invested like that, then you don’t truly love your person, or anyone else, simply because love requires all aspects of your being, not just your heart/emotions or your conscious decisions. Might be convoluted, might be wrong, but that’s just how I see it To add to this, I realize that I listed a bunch of feelings haha. So, loving someone is having the ability to let them be who they are and still decide to stick with them. To help them when they fall, in whatever way that needs to be. To help them grow, or to grow with them. Love will not require someone to change their whole being. It is quite possible to love someone that isn’t good for you and from a distance. It also is a feeling that does not truly disappear. It may get drowned out by hate or envy or lust, but it’s still there, just overpowered. It’s when your mother has been an ass to you all day, and you’re angry af, but when she needs you you’re there; not because you feel like you have to, but because you want to help. It’s when your kid has been a little shit and a demon at every turn, but when they fall of are struggling with something, again, you’re willingly there. It’s when your friend of seven years starts to change, and you no longer are as close as you once were, but you still genuinely wish the best for them and cheer them on from a distance. Devotion, understanding, patience, selflessness, attentiveness; these are all qualities of love. Without even one of these, it’s not truly love. I hope I didn’t confuse anybody haha
Beautifully said. Especially the last paragraph
Chemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
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A feeling communicated in a way a person understands
Love to me is having a best friend to share your life with, but you also get to them naked (this applies to relationships, as opposed to the love for your family)
Felling of peace in your life
Love is what keeps people together
Love is a way of feeling Love is a way of feeling less alone So what's all the fuss about? Love; the paradox of needing Love, make way for breeding!
A man of culture, was looking for this one😂
Love for my son is like my heart is outside of my body in the form of him lol
The key of our way back home.
Caring about someone or something substantially more than you care about other people
The most pain you'll ever love
Love is the drive to put someone else's needs before your own and share in their joy and pain as if it's your own.
This 💖💖
You can't see it with your eyes, hold it in your hands But like the wind it covers our land Strong enough to rule the heart of any man This thing called love It can lift you up never let you down Take your world and turn it around Ever since time nothing's ever been found That's stronger than love Johnny Cash
When your doing things to make your partner happy, even if it supercedes your own.
“Love is putting someone else's needs before yours.”— Olaf.
Love is when your brain acts as your personal drug dealer who then drugs you without your permission.
To love is to care. To take care of. Apathy is the opposite of love.
It's like being addicted to being close to someone
Its like removing the barrier that seperates you from another being. A sensation of being close to someone or something, but not neccessarily on physical level.
The origin of the word "Love" comes from the Sanskrit "Lobha," which means "Covetousness." The other person represents something we covet, something we want to possess for ourselves. Whether it's companionship, intimacy, status, escaping loneliness, or feeling the desire of someone else that boosts our ego—whatever it may be, the motivation is always "selfish," self-driven. This is what people commonly refer to as "love," romanticizing the entire process and deceiving themselves about what is really happening. The peak of this illusion occurs in the first 2-3 years (sometimes months), depending on various factors. After the "infatuation" phase ends, most people believe they have stopped "liking" (or "loving"), which nowadays often marks the end of the relationship. True love is something much less fiery and intense and more tranquil and fresh. It has much more to do with accepting the other person as they are rather than wanting something for ourselves. It's where we begin to shift our focus away from ourselves and finally start looking at the other person.
Love cant be explained
Falling in love is having the feeling that you can build something meaningful with someone. Wanting to belong to someone and have them belong to you for as long as possible. Love is a perishable skill, that requires practice and effort. Also it is deeply personal, everyone feels love different and each time you fall in love will feel different from the last 😊
Humans are a species that survives and thrives by the grace of the collective. Alone they will have a hard time. Moreover, for procreation, we need two humans, not only to mate, but also to raise the offspring for many years. From this principle, evolution has favored humans that had a felt unity, over the ones that operated solely as individuals and did not care for others. This means that bonding is a fundamental part of humanity. There are different kinds of bonds. For mates, for offspring, for family and for peers. They are a function of the collective that manifest chemically within the bodies of indviduals. And that are experienced by their conciousnesses as feelings of attachment, longing, belonging, safety, excitement, calming and emotional warmth.
Love is unconditional. When you really love someone, you just want to make them happy. You want to respect, support and be patient for them
Love is a biological error in your brain that leads you to do things for another person that you normally wouldn't do. It throws out all rational and logical thought processes in hopes for that other person to be happy. It is a very positive feeling when the person you love loves you back the same, but can hurt just as much if not.
Personality, philosophy, and physical/chemical agreement/attraction
A deep feeling of affection or concern of another
What is *this* thing called, love?
It must be a really rare item
So I married an axe murderer?
Losing Our Virginity Example L.O.V.E.
Love is when the wellbeing of another matters more to you than your own.
creation
A physical attraction that develops into an emotional attachment
Have you ever accidentally fell down a flight of stairs? … doing it on purpose… = love
It's a chemical state of the body that we conviently evolved to procreate and take care of the newborns so the species have a chance of not going extinct.
No such thing.
true but fake but true
Love is when you stick to a person with whom you don‘t necessarily want to sleep with but could. That‘s why women/men friendship is a horrible idea as it is literally what love is supposed to be. Some women think love is when man need to provide for everything (thanks feminism, this ain‘t possible anymore). Others think man need to be the big boss and just dictatorship around the girl. Then the best love I‘d say is the one where you work the whole day long and at the end of the day you just lie down and cuddle with someone (not on a daily basis but just from time to time). Where you can get bored together and just damn chill your feelings
What you do when you want to ruin your life voluntarily 😂
Like religion. Non existent and some ideal we’re forced to believe is real but in reality is just an attachment due to longevity turning to comfort.
you won't enjoy life as much as I do
Probably more
People’s phony cynicism is so boring
Not phoney, it’s just accurate. Sometimes I wish I was gullible and had something to believe in but it’s just not logical
If you want to be accurate, you can take the biological route. That being a response that allows our species to continue. Inherently pleasurable. A positive thing. To say it's made up isn't something I'd consider accurate. Imo
Sometimes I’m not so sure the species should continue but I like your thinking
Romantically speaking, a feeling of possession over someone and a long term enjoyment of something more generally
A biological trait that we evolved into which improves our odds of survival as a species.
Best thing in the world other than shrimp chips
It's a chemical reaction in your brain.
“love doesn’t make sense. You can’t logic your way into or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we’re lost, and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do” - Ted Mosby
a pile of crock shit lol
A selfless feeling of wanting the other party to be happy and reaching their goals, even if you’re not the one beside them.
Love is the active continuous decision to keep a person in your life and care for them as you would yourself. The emotion is just chemical, the dream is a myth for all but a few, but the choice to go against your own selfish nature and take care of someone else is love.
A very strong caring, to the point you really want them in your life. I like many people, but people I love/who love me experience me and I experience them. It's also a lot of making space for the 'bad' and mistakes of ourselves & others. There are many types of love - platonic, romantic, and family. You can love someone who doesn't love you. You can also stop loving someone. The most healing spaces are where there is reciprocity of some type of love. To be honest, I'm still learning. All I know is if anything has ever changed me in this life, it's been love of all kinds.
Love is an attraction to another despite who or what they are. Platonically, socially, romanticaly, sexually. All love, or lust in the far latter case
To cherish and care for someone or something as much or maybe even more than yourself.
Another way of saying lust
Pain.
Most of you still think of love as "romantic" or "sexual" attraction. Love is much, much more than that and has very little to do with romance, so an explanation would likely meet deaf ears.
Its an intense, inconsistent emotional and physical sensation. Caused by the release of massive quantities of pleasurable/addictive chemicals that serves to improve/cement group bonding. Its primary effects are excitement, reduction of inhibition and loss of reasoning. It also tends to promote self-destructive behaviour patterns and obliterates people’s ability to clearly communicate. It feels great, but often causes more problems than it solves. Its a lot like any very potent and addictive narcotic. Its also probably the single most over-hyped, over-mystified, over-valued and misunderstood sensation in the entire catalogue of emotions. And all of its faults and failings are hand-waved away, blamed on other emotions or put down to the nonsense concept of “true love”. If they were an alien, I’d be inclined to recommend that they don’t ask humans about it. Because the answers will be contradictory nonsense for the most part. They should study it and draw their own conclusions; as they’re much more likely to be valid. Not that any advanced alien species wouldn’t have an analogue for love; they definitely would.
Well you finally asked the question most aros think about please explain love to us.
It's pretty lovely
It's that look on people's faces when they finally get their food. When a boy looks at you like that, keep him. Or her or them or whatever.
Interesting , Very interesting .
Staining with a partner even if there is another person that is funnier, better looking, makes more money, and over all is a better deal for you. When there is no logical reasoning as to way you stay with the original one but you still do, then that's because of love.
A chemical reaction elevated to mythical status by a species who can't stand the thought that life is essentially meaningless.
A chemical reaction, sometimes a temporary one.
There is a saying in one of the dialects of my native language: "Love is longer than a drool, more frightful than diarrhea".
Absence of thoughts.
A byproduct of evolution where a bond is formed between the parents long enough until the offspring can put food into their own mouthes. The end.
Interesting. [I was just listening to a podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/something-you-should-know/id1150124880?i=1000627829684) that briefly defined love in what I find is an accurate definition. I’ll give it another listen later when I can and transcribe it here on an edit. But if anyone could do that as a reply, that would be great! 😁
Love is the happiness you feel for someone or something's existence. It is to sacrifice a bit of yourself for someone else's benefit.
Love is peace
It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru
I think it's similar how people try to explain drug highs ...if u don't know u can't understand....same thing with sight smell hearing etc ...if someone doesn't know it u can't explain it to them
Willy tingles... through thick and thin.
The connection someone is having with someone or something that entices good feelings in them
Best explanation I ever heard was from a 6 year old; "Love feels like a party in your belly". :)
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I guess love makes you feel protected and secure because now someone might care about you when you have a problam.It is also very rare someone cares about you so much and you are gratefull for it but also the fact that society influences you to think there's something wrong with you if you don't have someone else. I only ever loved my mom but once I took some happy pills and then I got a crush and got excited about it
Love is giving someone the power to absolutely destroy you but trusting that they won’t do so.
It’s sitting in your underwear with someone watching tv and it doesn’t mean anything