how do you define love?
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When you are truly happy, when you can not wait to get home to the person who is waiting for you, When you know that the person will defend you at all coast, When people can just look at you and tell that you are in love. there are so many things I can go on forever, but you will know when the right person is by your side because you will feel full.
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Love is the awesome emotional tie that a couple has between each other and when that love is felt then sex turns into making love....That's how it should be.  Sex can be done by anyone but Love making is done by people who are in love and love each other, truly.
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simple but dificult question, The answer is love
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Love has several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something that one would die for (patriotism, pair-bonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. As an experience usually felt by a person for another person, it is commonly considered impossible to describe. Dictionaries tend to define love as deep affection or fondness.[1] In colloquial use, according to polled opinion, the most favoured definitions of love include the words:[2]\n\nlife - someone or something for which you would give your life. \ncare - someone or something about which you care more than yourself. \nfriendship - favoured interpersonal associations or relationships. \nunion - a synergistic connection, as in the perfect union of two souls. \nfamily - people related via common ancestry, religion, or race, etc. \nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[3] Others maintain that love exists but is undefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature, etc. Perhaps due to its emotional primacy, love is one of the most common themes in art.\n\nu want the real?
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What Is Love?\nLove is...being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when they are sad, Being together in good times, And being together in bad times. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH. \nLove is...Being honest with yourself at all times, Being honest with the other person at all times, Telling, listening, respecting the truth, And never pretending. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF REALITY. \nLove is...An understanding so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person, Accepting the other person just the way they are, And not trying to change them to be something else. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF UNITY. \nLove is...The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, The growth of one individual alongside of and together with the growth of another individual. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SUCCESS. \nLove is...The excitement of planning things together, The excitement of doing things together. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF THE FUTURE. \nLove is...The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF PASSION. \nLove is...Giving and taking in a daily situation, Being patient with each other's needs and desires. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SHARING. \nLove is...Knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, Missing the other person when they are away but remaining near in heart at all times. \nLOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SECURITY. \nLOVE IS...THE SOURCE OF LIFE!
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The experience of love is the same, what changes are our preferences\nLove is an emotion that nearly everyone has experienced at some time in their life. One would think that with such a familiar concept, researchers would agree on what constitutes love and how to measure it. That has not been the case. Most research on love is based on a priori theoretical conceptualizations. It's quite possible that if a researcher starts out by defining love and then develops a measure to quantify that conceptualization, the results would tend to reflect this process. \nto attract a mate; 2) to retain the mate; 3) to reproduce; and 4) parental investment.  \n\nLove at first sight, based on physical attributes and is mostly physical arousal; Storge - loving affection that develops over time, is primarily affection and commitment; Ludos - a rover and collector of loves, very pluralistic. Secondary love styles: Mania - intense preoccupation with the loved one, intensly jealous and possessive, in need of constant reassurance of partner's love. Projects desired qualities on partner. Pragma - looking for a compatible partner; Agape - Selfless, caring without self interest. \nThree dimensional view The experience of love is a function of levels  intimacy, commitment and passion\nPassionate love is an intense state of longing for union with another. It has three components: 1) cognitive - intrusive preoccupation with the person, idealization of that person, and desire to know the person; 2) Emotional - Attraction/Sexual attraction, positive and negative feelings, longing for reciprocity, desire for union, physiological arousal; and 3) Behavioral - Actions to determine the other's feelings, studying the person, service to the person, maintaining physical closeness. Companionate love is the affection that we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined\nPassionate love is an intense state of longing for union with another. It has three components: 1) cognitive - intrusive preoccupation with the person, idealization of that person, and desire to know the person; 2) Emotional - Attraction/Sexual attraction, positive and negative feelings, longing for reciprocity, desire for union, physiological arousal; and 3) Behavioral - Actions to determine the other's feelings, studying the person, service to the person, maintaining physical closeness. Companionate love is the affection that we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined\nPassionate love is an intense state of longing for union with another. It has three components: 1) cognitive - intrusive preoccupation with the person, idealization of that person, and desire to know the person; 2) Emotional - Attraction/Sexual attraction, positive and negative feelings, longing for reciprocity, desire for union, physiological arousal; and 3) Behavioral - Actions to determine the other's feelings, studying the person, service to the person, maintaining physical closeness. Companionate love is the affection that we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined\n\n Passion \nGazing at the other, Euphoria, Butterflies in stomach, Heart rate increases, Wonderful feelings, Sexual passion, Sex appeal, Physical attraction, Laughing, Excitement, Warm feelings, Energy, Touching, Admiration, Uncertainty, Positive outlook, Happiness, Have a lot in common, Want to be with other, Scary \n\n Intimacy \nOpenness, Feel free to talk about anything, Supportive, Honesty, Understanding, Patience, Caring, Trust, Feel good about self, Forgiveness, Sharing, Mutual, Responsibility, Other is important, Respect, Compassion, Kind, Closeness, Friendship, Relaxed, Empathy, Interest in other, Affection, Helping, Giving, Liking, Want best for other, Comfort other, Intimacy, Concern for other's well being, Accept other the way s/he is, Contentment, See only other's good qualities \n\n Commitment \nDevotion, Commitment, Put other first, Need each other, Protectiveness, Loyalty, Lo
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read the passage in the bible: Love is...\nor watch the movie A Walk To Remember. one of my favourite movies and it gives love a whole new meaning. \n\nmy definition of love is thinking about them before you fall asleep or just being able to spend a whole night lying awake w/ them in your thoughts, smiling everytime you see them or get reminded of them, you want to protect them, take away their fears, cherish them, and be with them. \n\nmy dreams i've had about my crush occured pretty frequent but my favourite is the one where it's night and the moon is out. I'm standing there beside him and we're both looking at Niagra Falls together(we we'ren't in an embrace or anything. No one else was around. It was just me and him. the only thing crappy about that dream was i woke up before anything else happend. lol. aww. it was a pretty sweet dream that i would like to have com true. :)
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Love is when you can't stop smiling when you think about your other or someone says their name. Love is when you go to sleep everynight with a smile on your face knowing you couldn't be happier. Love is perfect and nothing can come between true love. When you can get to the point where things that would usually bother you don't, and when you can be yourself and know you are loved no matter what.
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In our society love seems to be whatever someone likes. The Bible calls what we call love - Lust. In the Bible love is not a feeling but a character quality the root of which is giving. People who give of themselves to meet the need of others are exercising love. The Bible never defines love, but it does describe it in 1 Corinthins 13. "Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,   5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,   6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;   7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.   8 Love never fails"
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Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.\n\nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of absolutist love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[1] Others maintain that love exists but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Love is one of the most common themes in art. An unfinished debate about the authenticity of love as other-regard began with Friedrich Nietzsche's charge that love is merely an ideology constructed by the weak to mask "resentment" about their lack of power. Critics of Nietzsche's view find gratuitous his assumptions that self-interest and the "will to power" overshadow all other concerns.
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Love is when you can see yourself with a person, really SEE yourself happy with this person, for eternity.  Forever.  Love is when you can't stand to be apart and when you're together, you feel like never leaving and never sleeping and never breathing.  Love is so complicated that you don't even want to think about explaining it in words and the only way you can do it is in feelings.\n\nLike is an attraction, physical and mental, that makes you desire to be around someone and it makes you happy, but it doesn't blow your mind.  It's when you think about that person and really have to concider your feelings sometimes.    That's how it is for me.
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I tell everyone the same answer to this question. So here it is.\n\nYou know your in love when you do all the big things, but more importantly, the little things for them. Love is where you find yourself opening doors for her and carrying her books and bags. Love is being able to be the only one to make her laugh when she is feeling down. Love is the pain that you go through when the other is out of town. Love is the way you look forward to the day she flys back home. Love is where you find yourself talking to your pillow and hugging it all night long like it can talk and hug back. Love....is....the way you can look into her eyes, no matter what color they are, and feel time around you, frozen . Every time I look into my girlfriend's eyes, I can see the beach. I can see just me and her alone walking in the sand together talking about whatever is on our minds. Then I look down and see a perfect seashell. I pick it up and just stare at it. It reminds me of her eyes. Love is something no one can understand until they have truly experienced it. That...is love. \n\nI sat in bed one night and tought about this and that is what I came up with.
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This goes back to the age old question; what is love? well this is my definition: Usually people say that they love someone because the other person makes them laugh; makes them feel comfortable; makes them smile and laugh; makes them feel complete - i tend to say that's not love - that's a self centred feeling. Love to me is when you want to be with the other person beause you want to make HIM/OR HER happy, you want to make THEM feel comfortable, make THEM smile and laugh; make THEM feel complete. Love is more of giving then wanting something from someone. A simple love test: If you took the brains of someone you think you love and put it on another body, would you feel the same? If you would then that's love, because you care and want to GIVE to the person - regardless of looks... more of what's in the inside. So, are you in love? I hope so :)
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Well  for me Love is something that makes you who you are,\nLove is being happy for the other person when they are happy, \nbeing sad for the other person when they are sad, \nbeing together in bad times and good times...\nLove is being honest with yourself at all times,\ntelling, listening, and never pretending...\nLove is an understanding that is so complete \nthat you feel as if you are a part of the other person,\naccepting the other person just the way they are, \nand not try to change them to be something else...\nLove is freedom to pursue your own desires, \nwhile showing your experiences with the other person...\nLove is the excitement of planning things togeather...\nLove is the fury of the storm, the calm in the rainbow...\nLove is the source of passion...\nlove is seen yourself in the eyes of the person that shares your heart.
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My definition of love is, that if you "love" someone, you would be willing to die for them, if necessary.
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Love is all the states of mind put together into a complex state of bliss...in love one can feel every emotion intensified. Like states of mind which come and go, love does not easily come and easily go, it adheres to all tests of time and patience.
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Although clearly and consistently defining love is a difficult task, and often a subject of much debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more "pure" form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.\nIn ordinary use, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself.\n\nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love. Others call it a recently-invented abstraction, sometimes dating the "invention" to courtly Europe during or after the middle ages—though this is contradicted by the sizable body of ancient love poetry. Others maintain that love really exists, and is not an abstraction, but is undefinable, being a quantity which is spiritual or metaphysical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self-esteem" to another. Others attempt to define love by applying the definition to everyday life.\n\nCultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etc. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value", as opposed to relative value.\n>r