What is love?

Question

Baby don't hurt me...

No but really. Is it real? Is it just a misconception that's really just passion or insanity? If that feeling (you know the feeling) you get isn't love, then what is it?

Okay, so if it is real, how do I tell it apart from passion or obsession?

Answer 1

its an easy word to say

Answer 2

Sh!t yeah love is real, its what keeps most of us sane until we lose it and it drives us crazy.
If you get a feeling and it isnt love that is just a phase one that passes by like the day, but luurve lasts even when you think its gone.
Love never diminishes, only our hope that we think it'll never happen to us but when it does, its the most beautiful blessing anyone can have whether short lived or long lasting it is still worth the ride.Love is doing whatever it takes no matter the consequence.It is not a misconception, the only misconception is our doubts that put fear in our eyes that brings us to insanity\rage.But luurve is the light of hope and being in love is a beautiful thing.
A life without love is like us without air.
Passion I would call lust and Obession I would call infactuation.
How do you tell the difference well with lust you think more with your head then you do with your heart and with obession well thats just more or less the same as passion b\c its infactuation.But as for luurve you tend to think more with affection and from the heart then you would if you were obessed or passionate about someone.

Answer 3

"Love is when you want to give joy and damn the consequences." - Duncan Idaho, from Frank Herbert's "God Emperor of Dune"

It's real. Chemical, emotional, psychological, spritual, evolutionary - all of the above and more. It's the more part the drives everyone crazy with questions like yours. In the end it boils down to the same thing as consciousness - being more than the sum of its parts.

More intelligent minds, more thoughtful poets, and deeper philosophers have asked this question throughout time and nobody's got a real answer. Love is something you can't cut, not with a thousand swords. And you can't track it, not with a thousand bloodhounds. In the end, love just "is".

"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it…. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
Erica Jong

I should change my name to "Cliche King".....

Answer 4

Love is a force , If you look deeply you will see it is far more above the mundaine things in the world , that's why it cant be explained by the science .Only the effects of can be known .
Now that there is Love , you can see a lot of mischivious acts all around the world , wars, injustice etc .
Suppose that this force -love- wouldnt exist ...
All human being would be eating each other .
So maybe It is a force to kepp the balance of evil and good .

Answer 5

God is the creator of everything; God is love 1 John 4:8 Love in Greek has three meanings: "Philia", Brotherly Love; "Agape" divine love and "Eros" or conjugal love or lust. Love is an act of a person's good will and the warm feeling of attachment that often goes along with it But if there is not this feeling the act itself is love and you can love even those you intensely dislike with this act.. "Puppy love" is what young people feel for an opposite sex before they really "fall in Love."

These are some thoughts on love which are inadequate to cover such a deep subject; Good health, peace and Love!

Answer 6

Well. I think love is a really weird topic. I am currently going out with someone but it feels sometimes as though I want almost nothing to do with her. I think that is because at the moment, I didn't have any needs. It is almost as if you only feel like you need someone when you may be sad or mad. It is someone there for you to trust that you can fall back on and they'll understand you no matter what. And sometimes for me it is like there is nothing for me to need to fall back on and sometimes I dont feel attracted to her and ometimes I am. It is a very weird sensation. But sometimes you can like someone no matter what and you just always want to be with them because you feel like they are just like you and are everything that you could want. It is very hard to explain. Anyways, I hope that helped.

Answer 7

Love is Kind,
Love is Caring,
Love is Loyal,
Love is Compassionate and Humble.
No Matter What Happens Love Will Not Break

That to Me Is True Love

Answer 8

12. You'll read his/her txts over and over again...
11. You'll walk really really slow while you're with him/her...
10. You'll pretend 2 be shy whenever you're with him/her...
9. While thinking bout him/her...your heart will beat faster and faster...
8. By listening to his/her voice...you'll smile for no reason.
7. While looking at him/her..you cant see the other people around you...you can only see that person...
6. You'll start listening to SLOW songs.
5. He/She becomes all you think about
4. You'll get high just by their smell...
3. You'll realize that you're always smiling to yourself when you think about them..
2. You'll do anything for him/her...
1. While reading this, there was one person on your mind the whole time.....

http://my.opera.com/SerbianFighter/blog/show.dml/62315

Imagine an invisible, undetectable force that's powerful
enough to override your sense of reason yet draws you
to someone with an almost animal passion. These aren't
Cupid's mythological arrows, but real shots of human
pheromones.

http://health.discovery.com/centers/sex/aphrodisiacs/phermones.html

Welcome to The Scent of Eros:
Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality -

'Scientists in Philadelphia have established for the first
time that the human body produces pheromones, special
aromatic chemical compounds discharged by one individual
that affect the sexual physiology of another'....

http://www.athenainstitute.com/discovery.html

Do pheromones work in human sexual attraction?

They may be odorless and colorless and their function may be
mysterious, but human pheromones at last have the zest of
scientific truth. Researchers at the University of Chicago
have demonstrated that compounds swabbed from the
'underarms' of young women at different times of the month
can alter the length of other women's menstrual cycles,
compressing or expanding the cycles in predictable
fashion....

http://www.ishipress.com/humanodo.htm

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9803/11/pheromones/index.html

What is the force that lights the fuse between two
complete strangers? What current pulses through their veins,
engorges their hearts, occupies their minds and numbs their
texting fingers?

As magic formulas go, sexual chemistry must surely
be the most valuable. It's intoxicating effects are more
pleasurable and more powerful than any drug and when it hits,
it hits hard. There are the rushes of ecstacy, the gut wrenching
anticipation, fluttering, dizziness, and the diminished
concentration that turns day-dreaming into a full-time job.
And then there are the side effects. A positively Colombian
annihilation of appetite and its confidence- boosting by-product,
weight loss.

But no one knows what "it" is. Scientists have managed to
map our genetic blueprint. They understand the subtleties
of hormones and the complexities of the emotional brain.
But the thing that makes two people click remains a mystery.
Theories abound as to what, or why. Those looking for a
magic bullet (or Cupid's arrow) tend to favour the notion
of pheromones - scents secreted by the sweat glands in the
'armpits'....

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20030629/ai_n12741733

Science of Love - Cupid's Chemistry:

Why do we love, what is passion, and why is intense
desire between two people sometimes called "chemistry"?

There are, in fact, three distinct stages of love; each with
their own characteristic emotional profile and scientific explanation.

First is lust. Lust is driven by our sex hormones testosterone
and oestrogen. These hormones are what get us 'out on the pull'.
After lust comes attraction. This is the love-struck phase;
the time when we lose our appetite, can't sleep, and can't
concentrate. This is what we know as falling in love.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/clairemcloughlincolumn1.htm/

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/446/

The psycho-physico chemistry of love:

When two people are attracted to each other, a
virtual explosion of adrenaline-like
"nuerochemicals" gush forth.

Also, involved in chemistry are dopamine and
norepinephrine, chemical cousins of amphetamines.
Dopamine makes us feel good and norepinephrine
stimulates the production of adrenaline. It makes
our heart race!

These three chemicals combine to give us
infatuation. Tht is why new lovers feel euphoric
and energized, and float on air. New lovers can
make love for hours and talk all night for weeks
on end.

Now, imagine the combined effect of hormones and pheromones.
It's bound to be mind boggling!

Answer 9

Yes it's real.

No it's not a misconception.

Love is when you would lay down in traffic for someone without even asking why. And no that's not insanity. It's devotion.

Love is wanting whats best for someone else even if whats best doesn't include you.

Answer 10

Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;love is not ill mannered or selfish or irritable;love does not keep a record of wrongs;love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, and hope , and patience never fail
.
Love is eternal.there are inspired messages but they are temporary; there are gift of speaking of strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass.For our gift of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; but when what perfect comes,then what is partial will disappear.
There are only three remaining important words ; faith,hope and love; and the greatest of these is LOVE.

Answer 11

'Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet, and "Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon, O. M. Aivanhov.