People throw the word 'love' around, what does it mean to you?

Question

What do you believe a person means when they say it to you?
What do you expect from love? is it different from what you expect from a relationship? Have you ever fallen in love with someone whose values differ from your own?

Answer 1

Love Is Infinite
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love isn't jealous. It doesn't sing its own praises. It isn't arrogant.
It isn't rude. It doesn't think about itself. It isn't irritable. It doesn't keep track of wrongs.
It isn't happy when injustice is done, but it is happy with the truth.
Love never stops being patient, never stops believing, never stops hoping, never gives up.
Love never comes to an end
I Corinthians 13: 4-8

Answer 2

It means true friendship too me. When someone says they love me I expect nothing but a smile. It's understanding me and my own values even if it's different. Its never wanting me to be harmed.

I have fallen in love with someone whose values differ..My husband and it has taken us a long time to come to the conclusion that our values are different and that is Good and we can come together to raise our son.

We are celebrating an anniversary next Monday!

Answer 3

What does love mean to me: It depends on which type of love you're refering to. If you're talking about love in the romantic sense then love is giving a person the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to, it is a commitment based on trust. If you're talking about love in the sense of loving God...it is the type of relationship I have with my father, I love him because he has helped me to become the person I am and because of how he takes care of me.

What do I believe a person means when they say it to me: That they will stick by me despite my flaws, that nothing I do will ever be big enough to change their feelings for me.

What do you expect from love: I expect to be able to trust the person more than anything…without trust there is no love. Jealousy can drive you crazy if there is not a firm trust established.

Is it different from what you expect from a relationship: No.

Have you ever fallen in love with someone whose values differ from your own: Yes, my husband was a member of a cult when we first started dating. His mother had raised him in the cult and so it was 21 years of indoctrination I was fighting against. My friends and family told me to dump him because his beliefs were too weird…and we had so many fights because he liked to debate me about Christianity…but I loved him and I didn’t give up…and amazingly God honored my persistence and changed his heart. He became a Christian and we are now married.

Answer 4

Love means putting someone else's needs above your own.
When I hear my son say it to me, he means I appreciate all you do for me and I'm glad you're always here, don't leave and don't die. I expect love to warm me and leave me cold at the same time. It is in the context of a relationship that I answer. My spouse has very different values in a couple of areas than I do. Sometimes it affects our relationship, sometimes it doesn't. Relationship love is usually hard work to make it stay, in my experience.

Answer 5

To me, love=metta.

The Pali word metta is a multi-significant term meaning loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill, benevolence, fellowship, amity, concord, inoffensiveness and non-violence. The Pali commentators define metta as the strong wish for the welfare and happiness of others (parahita-parasukha-kamana). Essentially metta is an altruistic attitude of love and friendliness as distinguished from mere amiability based on self-interest. Through metta one refuses to be offensive and renounces bitterness, resentment and animosity of every kind, developing instead a mind of friendliness, accommodativeness and benevolence which seeks the well-being and happiness of others. True metta is devoid of self-interest. It evokes within a warm-hearted feeling of fellowship, sympathy and love, which grows boundless with practice and overcomes all social, religious, racial, political and economic barriers. Metta is indeed a universal, unselfish and all-embracing love.

Answer 6

Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI)

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-- William Shakespeare

Answer 7

Love is caring about an others needs, wants, and happiness before your own. Being willing to sacrifice for the one you care about.It is a verb not a noun. It is with actions we show love not feelings.

Answer 8

to say love
to do love
to be love.

All steps in growth.

When my husband says "love" I believe him
But I believe more, when he provides all for all our needs and helps us maintain our lives.
My husband is the manifestation of God's Love for me.
As are my parents and my children. To me, they are the fruit of love, and become love. They are for me. I have them, and they have me. We belong to each other.

To not love is the worst thing in the world.

Answer 9

Romantic love is imaginary; familial love is what we describe as bonding to those of our same blood.

"Love is wisdom of the fool;
Love is kind and love is cruel"

Answer 10

Kindness, compassion, mercy, charity, etc. But, you knew that.