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2007-03-13 21:50:20 · 6 answers · asked by Shashiz 2 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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Robert Heinlein:

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

So if you love, truly love you desire the other person to be happy.
It will never be without this desire.
Why? As love is giving.

2007-03-13 22:16:41 · answer #1 · answered by I love you too! 6 · 3 0

Giving is one good traits of love, as the sayng goes "you can give without loving but certainly you cannot love without giving"

Love is the foundation of a better life, no matter where we live, we live by this values and because they are worth more when we pass them on, the foundation for a better life chose these values to share.

Psychology depicts love as a cognitive and social phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg formulated a triangular theory of love and argued that love has three different components:

1. Intimacy,
2. Commitment, and
3. Passion.

Intimacy is a form by which two people can share secrets and various details of their personal lives. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs.

Commitment, on the other hand, is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever.

The last and most common form of love is sexual attraction and passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love. This led researchers such as Yela to further refine the model by separating Passion into two independents components:

1. Erotic Passion and
2. Romantic Passion.

So there you are, love has always been and will always have a desire.

2007-03-14 06:23:12 · answer #2 · answered by NIGHT_WATCH 4 · 1 0

Love is one thing but desire is completly different.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

2007-03-14 10:30:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Love is a deliberate choice, a planned course of action. to love without the desire is completely weird.

2007-03-14 05:02:12 · answer #4 · answered by roberto 2 · 0 0

what is your definition of love? i have love for my parents
but i desire nothing from them. i also love my family
and once again i desire nothing from them. love is a very stretched word. it can mean so many things. the only kinds of love that require desire are usually romantic and erotic love.

2007-03-14 05:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by Chemical Coltraine 2 · 0 0

ok to love but she might be pissed you don't touch her cuz she's so ugly

2007-03-14 04:54:44 · answer #6 · answered by Yukon Cornelius 2 · 0 0

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