What is love?

Question

Exspalin your definion or tell a story when you was in love

Answer 1

is a feelin u cant control, somethin that makes everythin around u look so pretty & wounderful, is a feelin that makes u think u r a new born child.

Answer 2

Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for, or intense attraction. People in love are often considered to have "good" interpersonal chemistry. Love is described as a deep, ineffable feeling shared in passionate or intimate interpersonal relationships. In different contexts, however, the word love has a variety of related but distinct meanings: in addition to romantic love, which is characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire, other forms include platonic love, religious love, familial love, true love, and the more casual application of the term to anyone or anything that one considers strongly pleasurable, enjoyable, or desirable, including activities and foods. This diverse range of meanings in a single word is commonly contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for Love, reflecting the word's versatility and complexity.

Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from mere needs driven by sexual desire, or lust. Romantic love generally involves a mix of emotional and sexual desire, as opposed to Platonic love. There is often, initially, more emphasis on the emotions than on physical pleasure.

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 damaging to their self- 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 tradition.(dubious; discuss) 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 literary prose (e.g. Pride and Prejudice) has romantic love as its 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 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.
As above mentioned, though widely believed the romantic love/relationships are unique to Western culture, it can be found in different cultures but in various different forms/styles which Western people would not immediately recognise.

One of the oldest romantic serenades was written in Arabic in Iran, and there are diaries written in the 12th century Japan that people expressed their emotional/passionate feelings towards loved ones. One famous Hyakunin-ishu - the collection of the poems - reads : "even I surpress my feelings to her, it appears too obvious to others as asked if there is anything wrong with me..."

Romance/romantic love have been there for long time outside of Western culture but comes in different forms/styles. Because of the recent globalisation, Western form of romatic love becomes more common and many people identify it as only the form/style of romantic love.

While romantic love as discussed above is a dream of many, some claim that such love as is depicted in books and movies rarely, if ever, occurs. They point to the modern practice of dating, where often the goal is to have sexual intercourse as soon as possible instead of building a lasting relationship. Often, the rigorous demands of careers in the modern world rob people of the time to find such ideal companions, and mental disorders such as social anxiety disorder prevent people from approaching others. In addition, the high prevalence of divorce in western society may be an additional deterrent for individuals seeking long-term, romantic relationships with the possibility of marriage. Yet while romantic love may remain no more than a dream for many, as a dream it is unquestionably a powerful influence on real-world behavior and judgments.

Answer 3

Love is blind!

Answer 4

no

Answer 5

i don't know