what is love?

Answer 1

Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another. 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, 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.-

Answer 2

"Love" is a strong word. Love is not lust, love is not infatuation, love is not a crush on someone, love is when you deeply care for someone and what you see on the outside does not matter.. it's all in the heart. Younger people tend to not know the true meaning of love.. they go by what they think love is. For the girls, they think it is seeing a hot guy pass by and that is love. For the guys, they think it is seeing a sexually appealing female that is showing off parts of the body that should not be seen by everyone and that is love. That is NOT love. That is lust. Love and lust are very easily confused these days. It is even confused in music very often.. like T Pain's song "I'm In Love With A Stripper".. good song, but sorry guys that's not talking about real love.. that is lust. I think the younger people who don't understand actually think about songs like this and think that being attracted to a stripper is love because that is what they're being told it is. Another thing.. love for a person is not determined by what they have or how wealthy they are. Love is from the HEART!!! =)

Answer 3

What is love?

Love is a passion that cannot be quenched
Love is the teardrops that sometimes can drench
Love is the smile that can light in your eyes
Love is the sadness in every goodbye

Love is a hunger you never can fill
Love is the sweetest and bitterest pill
Love is hating each second when your apart
Love is a confusion that lives in the heart

Love is a sacrifice, yours for another's
Love is much more than lies under the covers
Love is quite simply, your love and mine
Love is our love that will last for all time
Source
http://www.writen4u.com/poetry.asp?title=What+is+love

Answer 4

Throughout the history of mankind, we as a world culture have made love out to be mysterious, complex, difficult, and undefinable. It’s the subject of endless poems and literary works. There is an enormous amount of material available out there about love, a lot of it contradictory.
We’ve been given the impression that to define love is near to impossible. Maybe there’s a fear that if we define it, it would somehow be less powerful...less impactful...less exhilarating. Maybe we like the mystery of it. But is it really that complicated? Perhaps the complications surrounding love come from all “stuff” we add on to this powerful emotion. Lets drop all the baggage surrounding relationships and define what it is we are experiencing in the moment of love.
Basic Components of Love
What do you feel when you love someone? If distilled down to it’s core components, what would those be? Yes, love is an emotion, a feeling, a wanting, and a “being”. We know it feels good, but what specific feelings, wantings, and beings are present when we feel love? Here are the common denominators of love...
Love is Accepting.
Acceptance is labeling someone as "okay" and having no particular desire to change them. Who they are is perfectly fine with you. You pose no condition on whether you will love them or not. This is call unconditional love. When your love IS conditional, the moment they step outside your set of conditions, love evaporates.
Love is Appreciating.
Appreciation is one step beyond acceptance. Its when your focus is on what you like about another. We look at them and feel this sweeping appreciation for who they are, their joy, their insights, their humor, their companionship, etc. When someone says they are "in love" with another, they mean their appreciation is so enormous for this person that it consumes their every thought.
Love is Wanting Another to Feel Good.
We want those we love to be happy, safe, healthy, and fulfilled. We want them to feel good in all ways, physically, mentally and emotionally.
How Do We Express Love?
We don’t always express our love. Love is a feeling and the expression of that feeling is separate. It’s an action. There’s a practical reason we don’t always express our love for another. It’s an issue of TIME. We only have 24 hours in a day (if you make it up that way). If the expression of love was a core ingredient to love, we would have to be stingy with who we loved, because there simply wouldn’t be enough time to demonstrate our love for everyone! If you see the distinction between the feeling and the expression, you can then love endless numbers of people.
Attention
Love expressed is when you give your attention, your time, your focus to someone. Webster defines attention as “the giving of one’s mind to something."
There are many ways in which we give our attention to another. We use our five senses. Our ears to listen. Being completely present with the one who is speaking. Our eyes, watching another, undivided attention. Tasting/smelling? (I’ll let you figure that one out). Touching, giving a hug, holding a hand, a caress, or sexual expression. How you express your love depends on the type of relationship.

All the best!/

Answer 5

Love is when you always dreams of doing good to somebody and that somebody can be termed as your loved one. Take a situation in which, you know that your loved one will be in a better position if he/she marries an other person than you, because you know your shortcomings. In this situation if you happily tells her/him to do so, than you can say that you loved her.

Answer 6

Love is nothing but a mutual affection between persons. It may be with father, mother, sister, brother, friends or with a lover.

Answer 7

love is an emotion which cant be described but can be felt. it is a feeling which u feel for someone who means a lot to u without whom ur world looses its colour n joy. without whom u dont think abt a future.

Answer 8

It is a feeling
Most of the time it keep 2 extremely busy

Answer 9

love is a word.

Answer 10

love is a full moon n a blue sky.