2006-09-01 21:29:03 · 11 answers · asked by milad f 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
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.
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. Others attempt to define love by applying the definition to everyday life. Others still, maintain that "Love is God".
Love has several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure to something for which one would die. And in contrast to the definition above, frequently people use the verb "love" to indicate want or desire for themselves as opposed to for another. For example: "I love that lamp" does not refer to desiring wellness for the lamp, but rather to the desire for the lamp. The word also frequently indicates elevated appreciation or admiration: "I love that artist," an individual might state.
Cultural 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, and love for the respect of others. 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. Many believe, as stated originally by Virgil, that "Love conquers all", or as stated by The Beatles, "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of 'absolute value', as opposed to relative value.
Scientific Views:
Throughout history, predominantly, philosophy and religion have speculated the most into the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. Recently, however, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have begun to take centre stage in discussion as to the nature and function of love.
Biological models of sex tend to see it as a mammalian drive, just like hunger or thirst. Psychology sees love as more of a social and cultural phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg created his Triangular theory of love and argued that love has three different components: Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion. Intimacy is a form where two people can share secrets and various details of their personal lives. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment on the other hand is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever. The last and most common form of love is simply sex, or passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love. This led researchers such as Yela to further refine the model by separating Passion into two independents components: Erotic Passion and Romantic Passion.
Chemical Love:
Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that a consistent number of chemicals are present in the brain when people testify to feeling love. These chemicals include; Testosterone, Oestrogen, Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, and Vasopressin. More specifically, higher levels of Testosterone and Oestrogen are present during the lustful phase of a relationship. Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Seretonin are more commonly found during the attraction phase of a relationship. Oxytocin, and Vasopressin seemed to be more closley linked to long term bonding and relationships characterized by strong attachments.
Cultural Views:
Although there exist numerous cross-cultural unified similarities as to the nature and definition of love, as in there being a thread of commitment, tenderness, and passion common to all human existence, there are differences. For example, in India, with arranged marriages commonplace, it is believed that love is not a necessary ingredient in the initial stages of marriage – it is something that can be created during the marriage; whereas in Western culture, by comparison, love is seen as a necessary prerequisite to marriage.
Religious views:
Love in early religions was a mixture of ecstatic devotion and ritualised obligation to idealised natural forces (pagan polytheism). Later religions shifted emphasis towards single abstractly-oriented objects like God, law, church and state (formalised monotheism).
A third view, pantheism, recognises a state or truth distinct from (and often antagonistic to) the idea that there is a difference between the worshipping subject and the worshipped object. Love is reality, of which we, moving through time, imperfectly interprete ourselves as an isolated part.
The Bible speaks of love as a set of attitudes and actions that are far broader than the concept of love as an emotional attachment. Love is seen as a set of behaviours that humankind is encouraged to act out. One is encouraged not just to love one's partner, or even one's friends but also to love one's enemies.
The Bible describes this type of active love in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8:
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
2006-09-01 21:34:55 · answer #1 · answered by Ben Ferrari 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fact from fiction, truth from diction. Love is a total surrender of ones heart to another without reservations and with out need of quit pro quot. All those answers can be found easy in the movie Forest Gump. Forest loved Jenny. He always loved her. He would not put any other woman before her. He would do anything, give anything, sacrifice all that her life be better, no matter how many times she yelled at him, rejected him, rebuked him, or no matter what she did, or how many times she f*** up. Even when he knew she didn't have the same feelings back it made no difference. You want to know if someone loves you? Put them in the "Forest" position. Want to know if you love someone? Put yourself in Forest's position and them in Jenny's. BINGO! You have your answer. Anything less, you are in some haze of lust. As for love, true love, just look at what Christopher and Donna Reeves had. Though he was paralyzed to the point he could not wipe his own a** or feed himself, she was there by his side, supporting and protecting him to the end. If that happened to the person you think you love and you would have cut and ran. No love, just a deep haze of lust. Why is that so hard for people to figure out?
2006-09-01 21:45:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Having love for someone and loving someone is 2 completely different things. Love is a feeling of happiness, feeling complete, satisfied, overjoyed, at ease. It's a feeling that is hard to describe but when you have it it's easy to recognize. Even if you never fell in love before and then meet someone and are completely interested after getting to kknow one another-you will know that you are in love with that person even if you're not familiar with the strong feelings that you're enduring. It's undescribeable. A feeling of conquering any obstacles together. Knowing that this person has your heart in full and only that person. It's a feeling of nothing else matters in the world as long as you have your loved one by your side. Love is feeling complete! Love is a feeling only you can understand. Love is when your heart races each time you see that person, a feeling of being at a standstill-when there is everything around you and you notice only that person that you love, even in the busiest surroundings but somehow you manage to be pulled in and captivated by your love. Love is feeling mushy and corny sometimes but all in all, love is a wonderful feeling that no one should live without. Love is what I feel for my b/f.
2006-09-01 21:38:32 · answer #3 · answered by NO♥NAME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is as everone knows is a strong Positive emotion it can be used as some ploy in order to get what you or anyone wants.
Thus Love is an emotion that should not be messed with in any negative way what so ever.
Thus no one seems to really care about that fact.
Everyone even lies about the emotional feeling of love just so they can get what they want eaither sexually or what have you else that is not the rigght way if a Person truely loves some one he or she should really feel it and mean it with all honesty and truthfullness etc.
2006-09-01 21:44:45 · answer #4 · answered by Peace Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't know then you are not in love. When love happens you know it. You can love someone and not have all of the components of a good relationship. You need respect, loyalty, trust and commitment.
2006-09-01 21:40:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i admire my ex lots that when her i nevertheless did no longer love all and numerous else and that i do no longer even sense like there is an risk of loving any a million else we brokup previously 3 years i admire her lots through fact we've been prefect jointly will its an prolonged tale yet its in basic terms that many human beings did no longer choose us jointly and the element is that im the a million who brokup together with her some cases i choose that she is the a million who brokup yet its me i brok up im nevertheless attempting 2 get her lower back yet i do no longer think of I even have risk
2016-12-18 03:31:44 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOVE is the good and the bad all wrapped into one's life that love's another.
2006-09-01 21:32:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is a feeling that you develop for the one who cant stop thinking about and dream of being with all the time.....love is unconditional,it expects nothing from anyone.....it only knows to give......
2006-09-01 22:33:04 · answer #8 · answered by country_girl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOVE IS LIFE
2006-09-01 21:30:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in tamil luv z kaadhal... hindi prem... n english... wel its L_O_V_E....
2006-09-01 21:38:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋