how do you know what love is?
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True Love ....\n\nIt's as mysterious as the stars it was written on, as elusive. It is everything it's hyped about to be. It's worth taking every risk, it's worth fighting for, and the problem is if you don't risk all then you risk even more. Love is kind of an elixir that lures us out of reality and into the realm of fantasy. It's like a drug creating an altered state of consciousness.\n\nLove is the moment when an unfavorable act becomes favorable, when you make excuses for some one else's mistakes, when you learn to tolerate, when you learn acceptance, when sacrificing becomes the beauty of life. \n\nIt's the courage to tell the truth especially when you believe its unspeakable.\n\nIt's the time when seeing some one, being seen by some one and thinking about some one feels good, when you learn to find happiness in the smallest of moments.\n\nThat's love--when you learn to put down your ego and love some one more than that.\n\nLove is forgetting your self and remembering some one else. \n\nLove is choosing your partner exactly as he is, and supporting him in his choices. It's honoring your partner's truth and wanting best for him.\n\nIt's not controlling or possessing but rather respecting and trusting.\n\nIt does not mean owning some one, getting some one, rather it means being happy in your loved one's happiness.\n\nLove means living without judgments. It means treasuring your beloved and never taking him for granted. \n\nLove means being able to forgive and learning to give more then you get. It means reaching out when you don't want to, communicating rather than assuming and asking questions rather than jumping to conclusions.\n\nIt means working things out rather than fighting, fighting rather than leaving, and staying through the hurts and disappointments, knowing that through commitment all can be healed. \n\nFalling in love is like being enveloped in a magical cloud. The air feels fresher, the flowers smell sweeter, food tastes more delectable, and the stars shine more brightly at night. You feel light and lofty as though you are floating through life, and your problems and challenges suddenly seem insignificant and easily surmountable. Your body feels alive, your skin tingles and you awaken in the morning with a smile on your face. You are suspended in a state of supreme delight.\n\nLove is a feeling and an action that arises from the most primal place within us. Making a relationship however, is a process that is learned. A relationship is the vessel that carries the precious cargo of love through time.\n\nRelationships are like a precious antique lamp; it takes a little polish and some effort to restore it to its valuable condition. A relationships love and luster will only improve with age if you continually give it the care that keeps it beautiful. But once you uncover its essential beauty it will bring you joy for years to come.\n\nAfter having said all this I want to say that you have to make the decision on your own, on one hand love is magic, on the other it's time tested relationship worked hard and furiously at.
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If you think love is nothing but kiss and hugs, you haven't felt it yet. I mean no offense to you at all, but that's (at least what I believe) to be true. Love is as much an emotional thing as it is physical. When you find your true love, it's like your life is complete: you don't care if your job sucks, you have no  money, and you look like crap. Just knowing that someone loves you can make all the difference. It can be the best or the worst thing in the world, depending on if it lasts.
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love is an emotion that afects your way of thinking. it causes you to see thing from a whole new perespective and react to situations differently. you can really explain what love is or know what it is unless you experience it for yourself. when you're in love, you are willing to sacrifice anything for that person's happiness even if it means you can be with them.
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Wow, this is a hard one! Love is putting that persons needs ahead of yours! Love is feeling something so deep in your heart, that you are about to burst! Love is missing a smell, a look , a touch and never being able to replace it. Love is holding your grandchild for the first time. Love is crying when your child goes to school the first day and leaves you.Love is your cat sitting on your lap and purring so contently. Love is opening your heart to all the possibilities of another human being touching your life in even the smallest way. Love is giving with no expectations. Love is painful and lonely. Love is full of laughter and joy! Love is life and without it, nothing is worth living!
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when you feel it deep down in your heart. you will know. it is the greatest feeling in the world when it comes to loveing someone.
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Love is a feeling of intensity that just happens naturally. It is acceptance of the other naturally at their best and worst, instant attraction, instant connection, liking all instantaneously and all flowing naturally. \nTo love is a feeling that is irreplacable and to engage in love making with that individual is a feeling that once experienced can never again be duplicated. Constantly thinking and longing for that person when not in each other's presence. When 2gether, they complete you and they are your all, you do not feel as though you are missing anything else in life. You long for no other, and wandering eyes are not in your vocabulary; true love in and of itself is a gift that happens once in a life time and you will know it when it happens.
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A better question for you is,"How to know when you have". Real love has three parts. A good definition of love is that it's an action done in OUTGOING concern without expectation of anything in return.
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Love, trust, patience, consideration, respect, compassion, empathy, joy, happiness, understanding, and more.  It's all the good feelings and emotions.  Love is always positive even though we struggle to be the best lovers we can be.  It is hard to live by these words but that what love is and if we at least live by a few of these words our relationships would be a lot better.
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love is not a feeling, Love does not hurt, Love is not proud,Love is not jealous, Love is patient. Love is something that's real.  Read it in the Bible.
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U can know ur in Love when:-\nU wanna be around ur sweetie even at 3 am(if not married), u wanna hold his/her hand even in public,u wanna keep ur head on his shoulder at any time just to relax, u wanna see all his romantic activities now itself,u wanna be there for her / him all the time,u wanna b there with him /  her all the time, u wanna keep his / her touch active, u wanna c him / her all the time, ur hands find theirs without much searching,their hands find urs................etc,,etc\n                              Most IMP, u blush at the thought of that person,u smile for no reasons, u think of that person all the time,u wanna kiss her/ him all the time,u wanna be around him /  her,u appreciate everything about that person.........etc ,etc\nBelieve me this does happen.I am LOVE.I know I have felt these feelings.\nTake care and wish u all the Best.
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I am an Athiest...There is no real answer to this question but what I have learned of what love is to me is...\n\n(L)isten: and Validate them by hearing and empathizing.\n(O)verlook: their minor character flaws as they will overlook yours.\n(V)alue: who they are and what they mean to you.\n(E)xpress: how you love them not just with words but with actions.
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(m)\n\nMy definition of love used to be this overwhelming warm, fuzzy feeling. When you see her, the world seems beautiful, the birds are singing, and everything reminds you of her. Your heart races whenever she walks into the room.\n\nThat is "being in love." This emotional reaction is a lot of fun but we shouldn't confuse these feelings with love itself. Some people think that they can tell how long a relationship will last based upon how powerful the feelings of attraction are. They spend massive amounts of time trying to decide whether or not they're "in love."\n\nWhat they're overlooking is that love is a decision to do what is best for another person, even if the warm fuzzies are long gone. But it's not enough to want to do what is good for the other. We must form our minds according to the truth that God has revealed so that we know what is good for the other, and we are not just doing whatever feels good. Once we know what is good for the other, all that remains is to follow through and live out that love in our actions.\n\nI think the biggest difference between love and infatuation is that love does not "happen" to couples--it is something they do. It is a task. If the initial excitement of a relationship tapers off and we conclude from this that love is gone, we can be sure that love was never there to begin with. After all, if love is simply about having romantic feelings, how could a bride and groom promise each other that their marriage will last "until death do us part"? More likely, it would last until boredom do us part. Therefore, you can not determine the worth of a relationship by measuring the intensity of emotions.\n\nSuppose you're married and your pregnant wife has food cravings. It is four in the morning, and she wants you to go to the grocery store to get her fudge-brownie ice cream, pickle juice, and beef jerky. You roll over and look at your bride and she does not seem to be glowing like she did on your wedding day. At four in the morning, your world is not looking beautiful and the singing birds have gone mute. But after kissing her fevered forehead, you walk out the door and drive to the store. Has love gone away? Actually, it's more real than ever.\n\nSo, how do you know if you love a woman? Pope John Paul II has answered this question perfectly by saying that "the greater the feeling of responsibility for the [beloved] the more true love there is."(1) The greatest example of this love is Christ. He alone perfectly reveals how to love a woman. If we ever need to know how to properly love a woman, all we need to do is look at a crucifix.
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Love is an emotion felt by two people in a relationship.  When you're in one, if she loves you she'll tell you.\n\nRight now you need to figure out if this girl "likes" you.  If she smiles at you go talk to her.  If it works out ask her out.  Welcome to life.  This is how we play the game.
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love is one of the hardest words to define because there are so many different deffinitions.  Most people say they love a tv show or they love there pet but i am guessing that the love your asking about is the love you share with a special person.  but to me love is a feeling in your heart, and that piece of your heart has been let free or misplaced to be found again by a stranger.  Love is not for who the person is, it is about the person they become after they fall in love.  Love is a word that describes how much that other person means to you, and for what you bring out in them.   It happens by being yourself.  Love describes a relationship that has each person pulling there own weight, helping each other out.  Love is to be fair and honest with each other, to accept one another as they really are, and work hard to keep there own individuality.  If you have at least some of these qualities, your love will last forever.
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You'll know, and anyone who's ever been in love knows this. It's a feeling that is undescribable by the human being, yet it's so unique. I think if we tried to describe how you will know when you are in love, we'd all come up with different answers.
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....the most natural thing you'll ever experience. Its the one time in your life you totally forget about yourself and only care about the well being of another. It gives you purpose.....gives you reason. Love is waking up and the first thought in your mind being of the person so dear to your heart. Love is being excited to go to sleep at night just so you can wake up and spend a whole other day with the person you love. Love isn't work as people say.......love is natural......the most natural thing you'll ever feel in your life.
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Ok....you can't define love as one thing.  Love is something that you feel towards someone or something.  But please do not get love confused with lust.