What is love?

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Love is feeling happier than its object of affection when that person loved is happy; feeling sadder than the one you love when he or she is feeling sad, etc.

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.

what is love?

some peice of s**t word in a Phil Collins song
all the crap I hear about relationships...I mean is it really worth it
I have never been in a real relationship or really in love (as no one ever lets me know them) but it doesn't look that nice
its all bull s**t IMO
and because I think that I must be crazy

Oh know he's doing the head thing again

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought,
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow)
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan th' expense of many a vanished sight.
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee (dear friend)
All losses are restored, and sorrows end.

It is said that "opposites attract" - maybe they really attract, but I don´t think that this type of love can last for a long time. I think that people have to be similar. I don´t say they have to be completely same but when they are similar they can better understand each other. You must admire the other person and take him/her as he/she is. That is love for me. Nothing is more horrible than to feel absolutely misunderstood

I wondered for a long time if I really loved my husband. I never had that 'warm fuzzy feeling' that is so commonly discribed in love, and felt like I was decieving him. After thinking about it for a long time I tried to imaging what it'd be like without him. I have a good imagination when it comes to thinking of how itfeels, and this struck me paticulary hard. I felt lonely, and sad, I missed talking with him, and wanted to be held in his arms. I realize now that love isn't a heartwrenching emotion that you feel the same as joy, but rather the feeling that brings on joy and happiness. I love my husband because I can spend the rest of my life happily at his side.

I dont see how the topic of what is love is an "adult issue". Shouldnt this thread be in the *Love and Dating* forum?

I don't see why it shouldn't be discussed in the 'in depth' forum. It is partly a philosophical question so you could argue that it should be in the philosophy forum too. You could probably make the case for a lot of the threads discussed here to be moved to other forums. I don't think there are any hard-and-fast rules about it. People just start threads where they feel they should go. This is a slower-moving forum than some, so threads tend to hang around a bit longer which gives more time for them to be discussed, which is also why I posted it here.