What is Love to you?

Answer 1

There is no real answer to this question but what I have learned of what love is to me and that is the word LOVE itself holds the answer.......

(L)isten: and validate them by hearing and empathizing.
(O)verlook: their minor character flaws as they will overlook yours.
(V)alue: who they are and what they mean to you.
(E)xpress: how you love them not just with words but with actions.

Answer 2

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 3

The ultimate love is God's unconditional love.

Love never fails.

Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

This is God's kind of love.
Let us seek to follow His example.

Answer 4

1Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not
brag, does not get puffed up. does not behave indecently, does
not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does
not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over over
unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love
never fails.

Answer 5

Love to me is when your husband still finds you attractive in every way. Even if you are not the same size you were when you met. Then he marries you fat,and a year later in the marriage he decides that he does not find you sexually attractive anymore.Leaving you totally heart broken after you give birth to 2 of his children.Oh, not that I'm venting or anything.

Answer 6

I am sure you will receive many different answers on this one. One might say love is a matter of perception. To me, love is acceptance, peace, tolerance, kindness, patience, forgiveness.... Love is overcoming the need to control and change things.

These are my perceptions of love.

Blessings )O(

Answer 7

I think 1 Corinthians 13 is the best..
Love is patient and kind, it doesn't get jealous, isn't obsessed with itself, isn't rude. Love is grieved when evil happens and rejoices when truth wins. It puts up with hurt, believes the best, always hopes, and endures to the end. (Paraphrase mine.)

Answer 8

Many answers are possible, but I like this one best:

"Love is the want for the good of another."

If you truly love someone you want what is best for them, no matter the cost to you.

Answer 9

Love is caring for another and wanting the best for them. That's my definition.

Answer 10

love is what gives us a sense of wholeness. It expands our self-awareness of aspects of our identity that lie closest to our heart.
Nietzsche puts it this way:
"One seems to oneself....
transfigured, stronger, richer, more complete:
one IS more complete."

Feeling complete comes from the sense of appreciation of one's self worth by another. Love validates & affirms my sense of belonging, my potential abilities (ideal self-image), & my sense of self-worth. By affirming these key aspects my personality, love actually makes me feel valued, worthy, & significant.

When I feel loved, I feel that I really matter to someone else.
I try to do the same for others. I want to see others reach their potential, & I want to help other people know that they are valued too. As a teacher, I've been priviledged to experience this loving relationship many times over.