Not trying to be stupid or funny. I just want to know the dfferent meanings of this oft-used word.
2007-03-04 15:01:03 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It usually means to be attached to something when we say that we love something. In other words we are less free after we have FALLEN in love with anything or anyone.
It seems that you were actually implying this in the question.
2007-03-09 13:12:45 · answer #1 · answered by canron4peace 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is simply an emotional connection to a person, place, or thing...
I love my husband.
I love my children.
I love Ohio.
I love God.
I love green beans.
All of these are "love"s. When one of these things are thought about or seen, I have an emotional reaction of some sort. The depth of love is what is not so easy to define. This can vary from slight appreciation to the deepest passion imagineable.
The oft-used phrase "I love you, but I'm not IN love with you" is just a way of saying "I'm losing the connection I once had with you".
Blessings
2007-03-04 23:19:15 · answer #2 · answered by Silverwolf 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Love to me is within your soul, it goes with out saying, it is known and felt without words.
To love food is not love per say... it is used in abstract, with meaning of more than like. Slang like all the words us Americans have conjured up.
Love a human being depends on the nature of the relationship. Parent, for the trust or knowledge they provide to you, it is unconditional.
Partner- this one is hard to define, because everyone's capacity for love is differently defined. Depending on what is important to you, Trust, Honesty, Compassion, ect.. And how you perceive, and accept love.
2007-03-04 23:43:12 · answer #3 · answered by K_Seeks4Answers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is God
Then there is Agape Love =all encompassing
Phillos Love= brotherly and family Love
Eros Love= sexual and spouse Love
John 3:16
2007-03-04 23:30:35 · answer #4 · answered by Michael JENKINS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me loving someone is wanting what is best for them. The best expression of love is to make someone so strong, thoughtful, and independent that they no longer need you, but choose to be with you because you are both going in the same direction.
2007-03-04 23:17:42 · answer #5 · answered by Bruce H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“I love you…” The word is so misused. That means, ownership, relationship addiction, the ‘better half’, low-self-esteem looking for fulfillment,- parenting, mothering, ever-fixing syndrome… and so.
I am comfortable being with you… a like ‘whole person’… I would like to share in the one and only “Love”…. Love is God… we will share our separateness in Love… in God. Like strings on a violin that never touch but make beautiful music together.
RICHARD
2007-03-05 00:03:43 · answer #6 · answered by Richard15 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to think love a synonym of growth. When we love a person, a place or an activity we make the object of this love flourish to its more intimate splendor and doing so, we also glow.
2007-03-05 00:08:58 · answer #7 · answered by Giralda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could well be that when we love "something", we like to make
love to "it". (almost 95% of the billions of romantic books and
films made have this quite doubtful something).
2007-03-04 23:09:12 · answer #8 · answered by peter m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To care more for them than for your self. To spare their life in exchange for yours if you had to, selflessness. Just to put them before you. To look forward to being with them & to not be able to imagine spending a day of your life without them in it.
2007-03-09 10:55:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is my definition of love:
Love is promoting each others' well-being;
Be it mentally, physically, emotionally, economically, spiritually, mentally,etc etc
If you are not being promoted in the relationship you have,
then, why are you still there?
2007-03-04 23:16:08 · answer #10 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋