What is Love to you?

Question

What are you willing to do to keep it? What are you willing to do to get it? How important is it to you? What generally is it to you?

To me i'm willing to do anything to get and keep it, it's the world to me.

Answer 1

The basic question is: whom do you love and why?
If if is organic, it is bound to recoil in either positive manner or in negative manner.
If it is ethereal it will not fetch any disappointment.
In case of divine love, you get lasting peace.
In case love brings with it either reward or punishment.
We can't do with it.

Answer 2

I'm a grandfather. Love to me is no longer a matter of hormones and attraction ,wishing, and waiting, and wondering. It's no longer a risk, the cards are played. It's a matter of living day to day, of friendship, of caring. It's very important to me. It's the life I see in my wife, my daughters and their husbands, and most of all now in the wonder and beauty of my grandchildren. It's also in the care and beauty of the world. Rather than the world to me, it's now me to the world. Love is a miracle, it's my way of being. It's not my will, it's God's will. Sex is wonderful, it's a gift I still enjoy very much. How can I talk meaningfully of sacrifice if death itself is meaningless to me? As St. Paul says "For me to live is Christ, to die is gain". I live with death as a reality, neither is a sacrifice. So presently I put all into living because that is meaningful to those I love, yet I would not have the inevitability of my death be a burden or sorrow to them. In all this there is no sacrifice, that has already been accomplished. I don't barter or bargain with my wife for her love and/or respect, nor she with me for mine. It's given unconditionally, openly and honestly. It's not taken for granted, there are both hurts and forgiveness and more life. We are also open and honest with our children, as we expect also they in time will be with theirs. No guilt, shame, and retribution. That's Love.

Answer 3

Love is a strong emoton, linking one or more individuals to each other.
Start with self-love. It's an absolute necessity if you want a satisfying life.

I believe the love you're referring to is romantic love. Nothing wrong with that. I believe most people want that. We just need to realize we need to love ourselves first.

I will give 90% in a relationship, alot of the time. But I expect my partner to also be willing to give 90% at times as well.

I also expect him not to ask or expect me to do anything that falls outside my code of ethics.

I'm very loyal to those who treat me well. I'll bend over backwards to prove my love. But don't lie to me or try to manipulate me. Don't ask me to do things that make me feel bad about myself. If that be the case, you're outta here.

Answer 4

What are you willing to do to get it?
IMO you can't go out and get it as if it were a pair of shoes.

What are you willing to do to keep it?
Love has to be restimulated. If it's not- it will fade away. Hearts can change.

What is love to me? I've finally learned it's not a word it's an action. Love is courage as we will lose everyone we love - one way or another.

Love as Courage

This is the bittersweet truth of human life: The path to love is strewn not only with rose petals, but with thorns. By journeys end you will lose everyone and everything you have ever loved; that is why it takes courage to love anyone in this world. You will seek love in safety untill you discover there is no safety in love, and none needed. Only when you are willing to risk the pain and sorrow of loss will you trust enough to open your heart to joy.
Some of us believe we want a soul mate, an intimate relationship, yet another part of us wants to remain safe in the citadel of isolation. Loners can remain detached and dissasociated, hitch-hiking through relationships and then walking away at the first sign of trouble. It takes courage to persist through the rocky roads of relatiohship; it takes courage to love and have children. We suffer every one of our loved ones' illnesses and dissapointments. We lose sleep ver our childrens dillemas and know their pain.
It is far safer never to love, for your heart is a sleeping giant filled with passion and pain, joy and fear. It is safer to remain in the armor of solitide, like a turtle in his shell. The only price you pay is your humanity.
No matter how succesful, powerful, or wealthy one may be, LIFE WITHOUT LOVE IS A REALM OF A SHADOW. When psychologists began to study violent crimminals, they found that almost without exeption, none of these offenders had experinced parental love or ever had a pet to take care of as a child. Without love we wither like a flower without water. Whether or not you are married, whether you live with others or live alone, you need someone to love in your life in order to fullfil the promise of an enlightened life you deserve. Whether that someone is your spose, friend, children, parents, pets or others, they serve as a means of awakening your heart.

Answer 5

Love
Observe
Verify
Evaluate.

To me love is the best thing that can happen to someone. It's real, it's raw , it's truth, it's true, it's emotions, it's loving someone as much or more then you love yourself. Love is knowing who you are. Love is when you take your partner for who they are, not trying to change them, you accept them flaws and all. Love is not perfect, love should be everlasting. Love is understanding your mate, love is being there for that person. Love is priceless, love is sharing yourself, caring for a person, love is hugs and kisses, love is up's and down's, love is calm, it's fun, it's happiness, it's wonderful, beautiful, love can be all of what you make it or all of how you break it. Love is this feeling that you know inside of you, love is this feeling that has you so speechless, and you can't describe it but only you know what it is, and what your feeling. I feel that nobody can feel this love I have inside of me, as I can't feel the love that you may hold inside of you, because everyone loves differently and everyone has a different feeling that they feel for love and a different feeling they feel for a special someone.
Love is....................

Answer 6

Love -->desire. Desire-->value. Value-->(Moral or Aesthetic ) good&bad and consuming.
So
1-TO LOVE
says a lot about WHO YOU ARE, (by looking at WHAT the other is TO YOU, and WHAT you NEED (nourishment)).
So you want your object of love to continue existing &nourishing you.

2- TO BE LOVED
says a lot about WHAT YOU ARE to the other (VALUE...good).

Anything VALUABLE is worthy of SACRIFICES of comparable value (NOT UNLIMITED).

So what does it say about you when you say you NEED TO BE LOVED?.
You need the pro's of being loved: acknowledgment, protection, nourishment.

The stronger/adult you get, the less you NEED it, and can ENJOY it if it is the case.

It feels GOOD TO BE LOVED becomes more and more...it feels GOOD TO LOVE.

Answer 7

I think love is caring for something more then yourself. It's something you would put before yourself. I would do anything for love as for getting it and keeping it that takes work so you have to do something.

Answer 8

To me romantic love is combination of emotions; respect, physical attraction, and friendship. Now that I have childeren I have learned that unconditional love goes beyond that of romantic love. My wife could do things that would cause me to love her less, lie, cheat... I would love her less because I would respect her less but there is nothing my girls could do to cause me to love them any less.