What is love?

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What is love for another human being (let's take love for a person of the opposite sex)? Does your definition of love change as you age? I need really detailed, anecdotal, personal experience answers pls!! !

Sorry, couldn't resist...

Anyway, to be a bit more serious about the subject, the definition I came up with (and use) for "love" for any particular subject is putting that subject ahead of oneself...

It simply means another person is more important than anything else in your life including your own. It is actually a very simple emotion compared to most.

My personal definition of love is the willingness, rather, the desire, to hurt oneself rather than hurt another. It is what happens when emotions become stronger than reason, logic, and judgment.

Love is the act of esteeming another over one's self.

Infatuation is holding another person/thing in high regards and wanting to have it/be near it.

Lust is wanting to have someone/something.

Wow. Just...wow. Me like

You can be in love with some one and in lust at the same time. They both go together.

LMAO, that's the first thing that came to my mind too when I saw the thread name

Love is some sort of additional emotion that humans developed probably to make them better survivors.

Love is to love myself so wholly, consistent and with the intentions of only the most joyous of honesty, that I then can try to love another with as much greatness as my being can attempt.

Love is love

Love is a person's dedication to the well-being of another.

hmm, difficult one, maybe because I've never been truly loved back in the pas it's hard to describe

As my signature at time of posting states, it is a painful emotion, I've been there lots of times but am pulling myself together

Love, for me, sometimes goes hand-in-hand with attraction to a partner, it makes me happy to love and be loved, but as I said on opening, it's difficult to describe

How should I know? I'm an emotionless cyborg...

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True love is the most liberating sentiment as it does not require atonement or consummation. Just a wish or a hope of happiness engulfing the life of your loved one. Even the mere idea of their happiness brings a smile to your face and happiness to your heart.


Yes that often happens. Though if you truly love someone it is the wish for their well being that remains with you even if the lust diminishes. But who am I to judge - as love after all is an individual's expression and for some it could be just pure lust! Nothing wrong with that - just a different perspective. Probably a more fun one!

But, how can one feel a love so pure, for someone else, if honestly, one can not feel that feeling for them self.

I think that if, you can walk through life, actually looking down on your self, then what you believe is love, is actually a miss understood emotion.

It is like when I had anxiety, before I knew what the word for the feeling was. I developed many reactions, to the anxiety, until I figured out what I was actually feeling. I am still going through the same process with the whole feeling of love.

It is taking a while to separate the final strands of passion, from love. Especially since, some passion can only be felt for a person, after you love them.

Your Thoughts?

Love is actually defined by body chemistry. Messengers in the brain triggered by the person we love producing specific sensations, feelings and reactions. There's plenty on the web about this.

But I think garyww has got the effect just right:

A stupid chemistry you could say. I don't believe in love. For me love it's for hide a weakness.

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for me it's in last place in my list

sorry to disapoint you