2006-08-08 02:31:54 · 16 answers · asked by ahmadrasheed 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
sex aand flowers
2006-08-08 02:35:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
The 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, is not an abstraction, but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self esteem" to another. And others attempt to define love and apply the definition to everyday life.
Romantic love can be returned or unrequited. In the former case, the mutual expressions of love can lead to marriage or to the establishment of a permanent relationship, which in most cases will include passionate sexual love. Where the love is one-sided (unrequited), the result can be damage to the esteem and/or the psychological welfare of the spurned lover.
One aspect of romantic love is the randomness of the encounters which lead to love. It may be for this reason that some in Western society have historically emphasized romantic love far more than other cultures in which arranged marriages are the rule. However, the globalization of Western culture has spread Western ideas about love and romance.
Romantic love became a recognized passion in the Middle Ages, when in some cases insurmountable barriers of morality or convention separated the lovers. The effect of physical attraction and impossibility of intimacy resulted in an excessive regard of the beloved as extremely precious. Winning the love, or at least the attention, of the beloved, motivated great efforts of many kinds, such as poetry, song or feats of arms.
In more modern times romantic love has been the theme of art and entertainment in all its forms. Some of the greatest poetry (e.g. Shakespeare's sonnets), opera (e.g. La Boheme), and literature (e.g. Pride and Prejudice) have romantic love as the main theme. Similarly much of more popular culture from theatre to film to popular music has romantic love at its heart. However, it has not been without its critics. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch one of the few English novels for "grown up people" given its pessimistic portrayal of marriage.
Properties of romantic love purported by Western culture that might or might not appear elsewhere include:
It must take you by surprise (the result of a random encounter).
It cannot be easily controlled.
It is not overtly (initially at least) predicated on a desire for sex as a physical act.
If requited it may be the basis for a lifelong commitment
2006-08-08 09:41:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is something heartfelt down to your soul. Romance is what you do to keep love alive. Flirting with your mate. Flowers or for the guys the thing they like the best like they're favorite game or a CD they want. Love is the thing that keeps you together, romance is just plain fun.
2006-08-08 09:37:54 · answer #3 · answered by Izzy Blu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love.... .lasts longer.
But romance CAN last for a lifetime - it just takes some ingenuity and energy.
It makes me think of the difference between being "in love" when you feel hot for someone and "loving" someone, when you will do everything you can to be there for them.
Love is deeper.
Romance is fun (though not everyone is really into it)
Love is not always fun - but I think it's what makes life worth while.
2006-08-08 09:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by Suzita 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is what is left after the romance dies out. After the initial early dating (romance) love should be what is left over.
2006-08-08 09:42:36 · answer #5 · answered by lady25mo2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True love is unconditional and never ending.
Romance is acting a certain way on your feelings.
You can have love without romance or you can have love with romance for a short while but real love lasts forever.
2006-08-08 09:38:49 · answer #6 · answered by punkvixen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is an emotion. Romance is an action by persons to show their emotions.
2006-08-08 09:37:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
romance is "courtship" the flowers, candle-lit dinners, walking hand in hand in the moonlight, etc. Love is sticking by someone thick and thin for 20 yrs. Love is self-less
2006-08-08 10:09:40 · answer #8 · answered by hopscothchbunnies 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are various kinds of love..the love of a mother to her children..love of a country..love of nature,life,flowers,books,music,helping others in need....etc.while romance is the special feelings two hearts feel and the need to spend the rest of their lives together...
2006-08-08 09:40:14 · answer #9 · answered by rubi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is love u just like them romance is wen u have da best time of ur life wit ur lover girl or boy
2006-08-08 09:43:30 · answer #10 · answered by Jahneese y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
romance is an out ward show of love, flowers gestures choccies love is undefinable but you just know it when it happens
2006-08-08 09:36:54 · answer #11 · answered by Andrew1968 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋