Some people honestly don't know how to answer this question. Some people probably haven't experienced it before so there's no way they can answer it. If you have been in love, even is it hasn't been for that long, what did it feel like? How did it make you feel? And from your experience, how would you define it?
2006-09-05 06:30:39 · 9 answers · asked by TA 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
to lay down your life for another...
my best example are my parents... they are still alive... but they will stop at NOTHING so that things are better for me... kinda a living sacrifice... n i appreciate that...
you can apply it to romantic relationships as well... as long as the wellbeing/happiness/life of your loved one is greater then any need of yours that is love...
its all around us... squint your eyes a little and you'll see it :-)
2006-09-05 06:45:42 · answer #1 · answered by Shane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is an intoxicating feeling, it's overwhelming, love is forgiving, love is accepting, love is not wanting to ever be without that person, love is willing to do anything for that person, love is something that never dies from the heart, love hurts, love heals. These are my definitions, but I think it is also well described in the passage of 1:Corinthians 13 (4-13) 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on it's own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong-doing, but rejoices with truth. 7 Love bears all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partiality will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
2006-09-05 14:00:54 · answer #2 · answered by inov8ed 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know love is honesty, dependability, someone who is faithful. The difference between a crush and love is a crush you will get over really fast, but now love is a different story. For me love is hard to get over.!
Good luck.
2006-09-05 13:36:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surviving the life of the relationship with no money sucking divorce involved.
Staying together and scarificing is way underrated these days.
2006-09-05 13:41:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's how i define Good, Positive, *Healthy* Love:
love is.... caring about someone So much, that you want the Best for that person...their happiness is put above yours.
now..TRUE love is when those feelings are reciprocated! therefore:
you care about that person SO MUCH that you want the best for him, his happiness is put above yours. and he cares about you SO MUCH that he wants the best for you, your happiness is put above his.
that way, everything is covered..u will be able to get thru anything *together* because u want the best for each other...!
it is so hard to find, but worth searching for. there are millions of people in relationships that are only one sided....where one person is doing their All , giving their all to make the other person happy...and the other person is lapping it all up, and not appreciating it At All. now, they may love that person and not appreciate..but that is not a Healthy or Positive relationship. u gotta take that love, and use it to fuel yourself to work Harder, Keep getting better, Growing together..then and only then will that love truly flourish into a great, lasting relationship.
i feel that i have that now...and it is Trying at times, because sometimes i don't feel appreciated by my man..! and we talk about it, because he'll do things that are just rude, or not right. and the problem is he just doesn't think before he talks or acts...and if he loves me and wants to be w/ me, he's gotta make some changes. not because he needs to change *for me*..but because he needs to change into a man that will be a Positive, Healthy addition to my life, or any woman's life. anyways, the first step is for Him to want to change for the better of the relationship.... and i make sure that i do all i can to keep him happy, make him happy, support, satisfy, and help him 100% all the time...so there's no Way i'm gonna take anything less for myself. he is a wonderful guy, but i need to feel appreciated. and that is one of the things we are struggling thru right now. but knowing that i can talk to him about Anything, because we want the best for eachother.. i Feel the love we have is worth working for and continuing and fueling to make it GROW. good luck to all of us!! i wish us all happy relationships and marriages~~
2006-09-05 13:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by sasmallworld 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
love is to become unselfish. You love, but don't expect something in return. When you trully love someone, you see no defect on that person, but besides, everything is perfect about him/her. Sometimes, it even go through being martyr, that even though he hurts you so bad, but you stick to him because you love him.
2006-09-05 14:08:25 · answer #6 · answered by heavensent143 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow. hard question. i haven't been in love for long, but i do know that it is based on trust. no matter what else it is, you have to trust the person you are in love with.
2006-09-05 13:36:40 · answer #7 · answered by izbella_12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think to fall in love with someone you have to first be true friends. you have to truly trust that person. i really dont know... thats a super hard question! when you've found true love you'll just know it.
2006-09-05 13:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by 123weed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is sacrifice...
2006-09-05 13:36:43 · answer #9 · answered by ppruel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋