How do you know when you are in love?

Answer 1

Here are some symptoms of love:

# Feeling a sense of déjà vu - we've done this before, we've been here before. Familiarity with surroundings and people associated with the soul mate candidate.

# A synchronicity of events or outside forces that bring you together. It's as though the universe takes over to control your destiny. You may be reading the same book and know the same people. Things are just a little too coincidental.


# Immediate attraction and chemistry. Love at first sight. Physically comfortable togetherness.


# Although you've just met, you deeply understand one another. There is an immediate kinship. You just click.


# This person has surfaced in your dreams. You recognize the face and mannerisms.

# An intuitive feeling that this relationship was predestined. Upon meeting, you just knew you would be together.


# The recognition of the soul is most often found in the eyes. The soul mate's eyes seem to just pull you in. Also, the voice is another telling sign. The sound of the voice may strike a familiar chord.


# If you must force feelings, that person is not your soul mate. A true soul mate opens your heart naturally and effortlessly.

Answer 2

When the relationship is over... hehe...

Ok, I was joking. Here's my real answer:

This is a question everyone asks themselves and, possibly, others at some point in their lives. The true answer to this question is not any that is posted above, possibly none that will be posted below and probably not even this one simply because of the following:

(1) Each person reacts differently when they are "in love" (or think they are)

(2) Each person is at a different stage in his/her life and what they think they know of themselves and others is heavily influenced by their life experiences, from birth to shortly before death.

(3) Each person we think we are in love with or would like to be in love with reacts differently to our attempts at sharing our lives, our experiences or even our conversations with them.

(4) I could go on with this list of variables...

The long and short is that there is no (easy) answer to this question. Being in love (or the concept of it) is something that requires great risk (both calculated and uncalculated). If you think you are in love with a person, the only way to find out whether you will succeed or fail in your quest is to take the risk (or not).

Here is a poem, entitled Love's Streets, that may help you with answering this question within your own self. It was written by a Samuel Roach and may be found on poetry.com.

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Love’s Streets

Love is like an accident waiting to happen
We stand on the sidewalk looking at what’s on the other side.
Then, we take that fateful step off the curb,
Only to come face-to-face with one of life’s 18-wheelers.
We’re either taken for a ride
Or end up battered, bruised and crushed.

Sometimes we make it to the other side
Only to discover that the grass isn’t really green,
But a strange shade of blue.
We then try to return to that place we were running from
But end up on a lonelier road littered
With the trash from so many failed voyages to the land of love.

Some say it is better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
But what do we do when love
Seems to always be on the other side of the street?
Do we turn our backs and surrender to our past failures?
Or do we step off the curb and hope for the best?

Answer 3

LOVE is.....
1) waiting by the phone all day.. just to say hi 2) its what you look for after a long day 3) its being able to say i love you..even when your not exactly on speaking terms. 4) its knowing that telling him/her what is on your mind won't make them end what you have 5) its sending flowers..just because its wednesday 6) its staying up all night because you keep thinking about that someone 7)its thinking for hours of what to say to show them how much you love them and then when you see them...nothing will come out. 8)calling them when they are out of town just to hear their voice..even if it is just the answering machine 9) its not being able to breathe when they say the simplist thing because to you its not just something simple its the biggest thing in the world 10) its forgeting what you were saying in the middle of a sentence because you're lost in their eyes 11) its getting these terrible feelings like you've lost them but really they haven't gone anywhere, its just the thought that one day they may not be there 12) ....its just being speechless 13)a big risk..but an even bigger reward. 14) having the most fun when you're just being bored together 15) its getting that uncontrolable smile when you are with them 16) being able to be yourself 17) it turns your life completely upside down

Answer 4

i believe that yes, you can know when you are in love, but sometimes its not the right kind of love for you at the time in your life that you are at. thats why some relationships that may start good dont last. I think everything has a lot to do with timing.

Answer 5

I don't know how many times I have answered a question like this. Do some searching on yahoo answers of the same question before posting. If you are in love, you won't need to ask if you are.

Answer 6

I know because every time I kiss him my body tingles. When I look at him, my eyes light up. When I think about him, my heart feels happy. When I am without him, my heart is with him. When we are togather, we are one. When we talk, he listens. When he tells me he loves me, my breath is taken away.
I know......................because when I go to bed and he isn't there, I can still smell his cologne and feel comfort knowing his arms hold me tight when he is.
I know because he feels the same way as all of this. True love couldn't be any purer. Any closer. More powerful. More spiritual.

Answer 7

This might sound a big cliche' but you just do.. you can only think about that person, he/she's the first person you think about in the morning, and the last person you think about at night. you get butterflies in your stomach when you know your going to see them, you get excited everytime you hear their voice, and you melt when they said i love you. and when they kiss you, you get that warm fuzzy feeling inside. and when they break up with you for someone else, your hurt, and you cry and you dont think that' you'll move on...but then again is there anything called love?

Answer 8

I used to ask myself the same question. And now I know I'm in love. When I was asking myself I wasnt, and that person turned out to not be "the one" If you have to ask...then you probably are not.

Answer 9

When you can look at someone who is totally unattractive to you because they are so old and feeble and clean the turd they just made in their pants because they are bed ridden. Thats how you know you love someone.

Answer 10

You want to spend all of your time trying to make that person happy and thinking of ways to surprise them. You always smile when you think of them and you absolutely cannot imagine spending one more day without them for the rest of your life!!