2006-09-08 05:07:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Singles & Dating
.........is it just a biological urge to reproduce, and the complexities of society have made it seem more than that?
2006-09-08 05:10:17 · update #1
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.
2006-09-11 04:38:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a complex feeling no doubt... There are a lot of categories... There are love between frens, family, the opposite sex, work, the things that u do, materials, animals, nature and the list just goes on....
The most strongest and complex is the love in a human relationship.... It hurts too when the feelings of love that u had placed in yr heart for that particular someone is gone... U feel empty and incomplete.... U feel like someone had taken a part of u away.... But at the same time why do we need love....
We need love cos love is not given just like that, there a need for it to develop over time.... And as it developed, it gets bigger and more deeper into your heart....
Working as a nurse, I have seen elderly patients died all alone in the bed and you should see how the eye's of these patients light up the moment you stand beside their bed, and touch their hands... Those will even give u a smile grateful that their existence in this world is still being noticed... That they are not all alone in this world.....
And that is what love is all about.... I hope that its not too difficult to comprehend... Its difficult to be explained, it just grows bigger as time goes by, it makes u happier, at the same time, it could hurts terribly too......
2006-09-08 12:29:48 · answer #2 · answered by chocolatevanilla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay so ask the age old question. The one everyone wants the answer to. A few years ago I heard two definitions that defined it for me.
There was a couple on Valentines Day some years ago. They were in their 80's, been married 50+ years and macking on TV (Your welcome for the disturbing image, I wasn't taking that one to the grave alone) Anywho, the point is they were very much in love and still you know what. When ask their secret. The man said.
"Love isn't something you feel for someone else. Love is the feeling you have inside when you are with that person"
He also said.
"Nothing in life last forever. So why do people believe that the first time they fall in love, will last them forever. You need to find the reasons you grew to love that person in the first place, find new reasons and ways to show them every day."
This is now my philosophy that I live by. Hope it helps you.
2006-09-08 12:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by Balou 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOVE IS : Something undescribable by nature. Everyone has there own feelings towards it. Everyone feels it. It's something that will interfer with our lives no matter what. It's the one thing that makes life for us humans worth living, knowing that we have the power to feel, to feel the affection of someones soul, to be so close to someone that you feel that you've known them your whole life. To me that is love.
Every time some one asks what is love I go back to this ..my daughter wrote this when I aske dher what is love any way?? You see I kept getting hurt and ending up alone....I have love in my life now and well I think for being 15 at the time she was right!! and love is wonderful!
2006-09-08 23:00:09 · answer #4 · answered by vtlovie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A longing to be with someone. An emptiness to be without that special person. An special emotion shared between two people.
You feel it in the pit of your stomach, you can't stop thinking about that person.
That's my interpretation anyway. Different people view love in different ways. All I can tell you is it's a feeling like no other.
2006-09-08 12:10:17 · answer #5 · answered by bad_dog76 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the feeling u have and exhibit in seeing the one u love that u will never do when its the real u.Love is what brings out ur hidden self and makes u live like a baby all over again
2006-09-08 12:12:26 · answer #6 · answered by folistone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love is different for different ppl.
its like wen u ask an 8 yr old to take care of a 2 yr old he would hold the younger one tightly to his heart not letting him play or wander around.the poor child would yell for freedom but his elder brother wud hear none of tht or he might hurt himself and cry... thats love...
on the other hand if a 24yr old takes care of a 2 year he wud let him play, have fun n enjoy in safe periphery. wud cover the cornices of th tables and catch him wen he's about to fall and keep a watch on him from distance letting him grow on his own but taking care he doesnt get hurt... thts love too...
one is mature and the other is immature....
this also applies equally well to couples..
2006-09-08 12:39:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A psychiatrist friend tells me love is a consistent sharing of positive emotional energy.
When you love someone, in a mature sense of the word it means you want positive things to happen to that person all the time.
In an immature way it means you want that person all to yourself all the time whether they like it or not...
Maturity and love I believe stem from the same place, you cannot truly love someone, unless you truly love youself.
Put another way how can someone love YOU, of you don't love yourself?
2006-09-08 12:11:25 · answer #8 · answered by adrian_biccum 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know you are in love when you feel you can spend the rest of your life with that person. You are willing to go the extra mile to make the relationship work. The person makes you feel good because of his or her positive energy. You feel like something is missing when they are not around. That person is always on your mind. You can be yourself around them and they can accept you as you are. That person has to be your soul mate. It will help if the person is mature.
2006-09-08 12:22:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope and patience never fail. Love is eternal...What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face to face...What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete - as complete as Gods knowledge of me
Meanwhile these three remain; faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love" 1 Cor 13: 4-6, 12-13.
My friend, this is the best description of love that I know of...It was written by Paul in the New Testiment...Paul was on the road to Damascus... At that time in his life, he was on a mission to capture Christians to put them in prison. Jesus appeared to Paul and as a result Paul believed Jesus was the Christ...Paul spent the rest of life sharing the love of Christ to others and wrote most of the new testiment bible in the process...Thank you for your recent repsonse to my question...Even though we may not agree in terms of faith, we can still share our viewpoints in a kind respectful way. Your answer to my question showed that respect as I am now trying to do..
Please do not give up on the possibility that God is real and alive through his son Jesus..That is what my faith allows me to know and believe....There is more historical proof that Jesus Christ walked the earth and was resurrected than there is evidence for many, many other historical information that no one argues.. The famous historian, "Josephus" wrote about Jesus Christ and his miracles. But It does come down to a matter of faith.... The greatest love of all was the love Jesus showed us when he went to the Cross for us....Please don't give up on God my friend..... Think about the miracles in life that have happened that the only explanation is that God's love intervened.....I do not have all the answers my friend.... But I believe with all my heart that God is Love....and there is a better place someday.. All God asks is for us to believe in Jesus Christ, His Son....Please keep an open mind....The Gospel of John in the new Testiment could answer the questions of about God's love through Jesus Christ His Son better than what my humble words I am writing now could ever hope to do....
2006-09-08 19:48:30 · answer #10 · answered by beancounter 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋