2007-07-06 08:25:11 · 24 answers · asked by ANNIE 2 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
Only if you think it does and for however long you think it does.
Love isn't a single emotion, it's a meshing of two or more emotions of varying degrees which combined is love to the person feeling it. These emotions and the degree to which they are felt, as well as their importance to the person at that time, are specific to each individual and change from moment to moment as the person themselves changes. Each person changes as they experience more in life and gain more knowledge. This in turn alters their attitude and the importance they will place on certain things, whether they are conscious of their change of attitude or not. And who one loves is always a choice on their own part, as they are the ones who place what is important and to what degree it is felt for love to be for them, again whether or not they are conscious of it.
This is why how one thinks of love for themselves changes as time goes by, unless one lives a life of stagnation. This is why people will fall in and out of love with a person, because they and the other person tend to change, and the definition of love, the qualities that define it for an individual at any given moment, have changed and the other person might not have changed accordingly to now comply with those changes.
This is also why it's easy to fall in love with someone you don't or barely know, because you can perceive them to be the way you would want them to be in order for you to fall in love with them. When they don't meet your requirements for what love is to you any longer, then you either try to change them (or how you look at them) or you break it off with them.
And then there is the love that some people don't call love because in their eyes it isn't meaningful enough (puppy love) or because it is destructive or because they consider it to be infatuation. But it is love nonetheless if it meets the requirements for love that the individual feeling it has set in placed for it at that time. True love, if ever there really is such a thing, is not the only love that exists.
And this is why the way we've defined love and the way we perceive someone will determine our falling in love with them or not, and if we stay in love with them or not. Change either the definition you've given love at the time or the way you see a person, and then you alter your love for them.
2007-07-06 08:27:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The concept of "true love" doesn't make sense to me. What is it if it isn't true? False? If it's false then it wasn't love to begin with. It was lust... or just wishful thinking.
I believe that love in the sense of an honest, trustworthy, hardworking relationship works. Love is something you do... not some magical feeling that overwhelms your existance and makes everything perfect. It exists... just on a very real level.
2007-07-06 15:31:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean will you one day look across a crowded room and see mr perfect, get married and live happily ever after? No, it won't happen.
If you mean will you date for a year, really get to know someone, put in the time and work required to build the solid foundation of a relationship and make true love happen over a period of years...then yes, it's possible.
2007-07-06 15:28:47 · answer #3 · answered by janicajayne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends what you mean by true love. I mean some people think they have true love and get married but end up getting a divorce. I do believe that you can meet some one and end up really liking them and never seperating so basically I think it depends on the person.
2007-07-06 15:30:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes true love really exists. I believe so because my parents are perfect examples. I just wish everyone would find someone they're truly in love with and that person's truly, madly, deeply in love with them.
2007-07-06 15:50:06 · answer #5 · answered by kerriberri24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think alot of people abuse the word love these days, not really understanding what the meaning of it is. I think it does exist, but finding it with that special someone is the problem.
2007-07-06 15:29:08 · answer #6 · answered by blazer9324 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-07-06 15:27:42 · answer #7 · answered by Jen G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think, i know true love exist.....ive been with my first and only true love since i was 14, now im 19 and married......hes the best thing that has ever happened to me, and without him my life would crumble
2007-07-06 15:28:04 · answer #8 · answered by ~Blondie~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think its just a state of mind ,1 day u think ur truly in love with some person n maybe the other day u fall for someone else
it depends on how committed u r n nuthin else
dis is my personal opinion
2007-07-06 15:29:46 · answer #9 · answered by one4zizou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it exists... Other wise I was horribly mistaken when I married the love of my life.
2007-07-06 15:32:34 · answer #10 · answered by Jessica 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋