Sorry for wasting everyone's time, but.. I need to know something..Whats the real meaning of true love..?..

Answer 1

Also you are not wasting anyone's time here for that question.

As you can see so many different definitions of love. True love is sacrificial love when you would give your life in exchange for someone else because you love them so much, even when they can't or won't really love you in return. That means it comes from deep within you that is hard to explain and really is a part of what everyone here has expressed.

I hope you got a well rounded answer from all of us. And I am glad it is all so different. That is why we are all here to give understanding for concepts that are hard to put into words. The best thing is actions. And actions come fro different reasons.

Answer 2

I have spent a lot of time thinking about this.

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

Answer 3

Have you read "A Tale of Two Cities"?
The hero went to the guillotine in place of someone else for the sake of the woman he loved, with the stirring words "It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done...."
That's as near as I can get to describing it while a more modern example was an old couple I used to visit - she had totally "lost it" a victim of Alzheimer's; he had terrible health problems - everything was falling apart - but he refused to have his wife go into a Nursing Home and struggled on to care for her.
One Christmas Eve, she died. He died on Boxing Day. It seemed to me that he just hung on in there to care for the lady he'd really loved, and when she died, he was able to let go.

Answer 4

MO? Sex. love was probably a feeling evolved over thousands of years that kept communities together and allowed humans to survive together, without love, others went out on their own and died. That, plus True love- feeling that someone is perfect for you- probably for sex.

now the romantic way about it? There is no meaning to true love, because love really has no meaning, it's not something to be understood, it's about bringing you close to someone in a cold cold world. why question it?

Answer 5

Love is a word. And like all words, it is inept, espically when used for a feeling. True love? As in objective love, I would argue does not exist, it will vary between perspectives, persons, religions, times, etc. I'm not sure what love is, but that doesn't bother me, because, agian, love is just a word. I would rather go by actions and feelings and not get wrapped up in wondering if it is love or not.

Answer 6

No problem, not at all..lol.. you didn't waste my time at all..

I guess true love would be the love for someone that doesn't die out, stands the test of time, an intense feelings that continuously just stays there in your heart no matter if it can't be expressed and you have no hard feelings about it, in fact you're happy that you're feeling it, keeping it in your heart for as long as that feeling stays there even for forever..

Answer 7

Being able to wake up next to someone after a night of sex and still wanting to be there with them. Wanting to spend the rest of your life with that person. Wanting to hold their hand more than anything else while out in public. That is true love.

Answer 8

maybe it's different for everyone but for me it's when you think of someone it puts a smile on your face, if it's a spouse you want to be in their arms,you put their needs before yours because you know it is something that will make them happy,love is not only needing to be with them but most importantly you want to be. i hope this helps. remember love is something that you have to work at or it will not grow. love is basically your best friend and if it isn't it will never last.

Answer 9

And I hope I'm not wasting your time with something your already know. Now, I am not a "Jesus Freak" and I don't proselytize and push Christianity because I'm not a believer, but true love is nowhere so well and so beautifully defined as in the 13th chapter of Paul's first letter to the Church of the Corinthians. I quote it below from the King James Translation except I change "charity" to "love". I've read that the original Greek was translated to "Carritas" (caring) as the closest Latin equivalant. "Love would be even closer in English, but King James' scholars rejected the term because it had come to mean a much more carnal love popularized by the "romantic" literature of the time. I quote:

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not Love, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not Love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not Love, it profiteth me nothing.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; Love envieth not; Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Love never faileth: but whither there be prophecies they shall fail; whither there be tongues, they shall cease; whither there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see as through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then I shall know even as also I am known.

And now abideth faith, hope, Love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love. "

And as a final word, let me share with you some things that Love is not.

Love is not a commercial exchange. It is not, "If you loved me like I love you then you would..." It is more like an offering.

Love is not obsession. It does not lay seige to your consciousness and parade through the spotlight of one's awareness in an endless cycle of exhiliration and depression. It is not martyrdom by obsession.

Love is not the inflation of self-appreciation that comes of being flattered by another's attraction and attention to you, (often after after a long bout with self-doubt). Love is not the addiction to that inflation, or to the inflation following sexual gratification and complicated by the necessary of naming it "love" in the interest of self-respect or the respect of your cultural environ.

Love is not posession. It needs only, wants only the well-being and joy of the beloved. I love the beloveds sorrow is your sorrow, their joy is your joy - whether or not it involves you!

The ideal love is like God, something that we aspire to, hope for, even worship, but which is so divine that our best efforts can only seem a pale, distorted reflection.

Namaste,
Good on ya!

Answer 10

true love is true happiness. a feeling of knowing someone else loves you as much as you love them, and wanting to spend an eternity together.