What does love actually mean. Do we just say it to say it. Or do we say it when another person does.?

Answer 1

Well this is what it is not.

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.

Answer 2

None. You dont say it, just because.
Love is something that you build over time and by living and sharing. (similar to how you make a friendship)
The more you live,the more you learn.
True love means giving yourself unconditionally, and I mean really unconditionally.
It requires growing every day.
The ways of love change with time as love grows deeper. The love itself does not change, but the ways we live it do, usually for better.

So you dont just say it. You say it when you feel it, as many times as you feel like, but most important, your actions should go with your words.

love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it keeps no accounts of wrong; it takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
Love is respect, wanting to help that person in any aspect of their lives; protect them from harm's way; knowing that each other will be there 100%; feeling safe with that person; proud of being with them; sharing your hopes and dreams together; and my favorite ... feeling like you can conquer the world together! Knowing you will be together no matter what and continue on until the day you pass away. Now that's love to me!