what is love, but what is love when it is broken?

Answer 1

Love is ...
Love is patient; love is kind
and envies no one.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
never selfish, not quick to take offense.
There is nothing love cannot face;
there is no limit to its faith,
its hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things
that last forever: faith, hope, and love;
but the greatest of them all is love


when love is broken...
its still all that...plus a heartbreak.

Answer 2

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

One thing that love seems to be is 'unconditional'; a partner / parent / child / pet is easily forgiven and forgives with ease when there is a mutual love there. It is a very secure, everlasting, enduring adoration, respect, attraction and affection between both, and causes a fierce desire to protect that loved one from harm. It is a deep bond as well as an infatuation. Through various experiences in my own life, I have seen my own and other peoples HEARTS broken when a loved one is lost; but the love is still there and hasn't been broken, just made more difficult to cope with because you will miss the one that's gone. There is still a similar grieving process when a relationship ends I think, then it gets easier and you find you don't crave for that person anymore. But I also think that there is always that 'perfect sole mate' out there waiting for you - they seem to come along at just the right time in your life! Again - very happy to say - my own experiences.
Of course, people come and go through our lives, but I like to think that we all have our own personal 'sieve'; friends and people we care about either filter through the sieve into someone else's, or they stay in ours (same applies to us in other peoples sieves of course!). It all depends on compatibility and UNCONDITIONAL love.

Answer 4

What is love, but what is love when it is broken?

Short answer - broken love. :)

Long answer: the question is whether the love, though "broken", remains "love" or whether it becomes something new (i.e. "broken love" rather than "love that is in a state of being broken").

Moreover, if one of the parties in a loving arrangement (assuming such a love is a mutual love and not an unrequited one) ceases to love the other emotionally and/or physically for some time before the official breaking of the love with the other party (i.e. telling them about the break-up) but continues to act as before in being civil, have they already broken the love, since (if the party being dumped still loves the party doing the dumping) the love is now unrequited?

To deal with the paragraph immediately above, I'd say that the love ceases to exist in its original state the moment the one party feels differently about the other, regardless of that other party's feelings. This may be a "step up" (i.e. a move from philia, or friendship, to eros, or passion - that is, from friends to lovers/co-habiters) or a "step down" (i.e. a move from a physically intimate relationship to a still friendly but no longer intimate one). When love is altered it ceases to be the love that it once was. This may still be defined under "love" in general but its sub-division (e.g. physical love, familial love, friendly love, agape, unrequited love, broken love, matrimonial love, storge) is changed.

So, to answer the question, broken love is still love but it ain't wot it used to be.

Answer 5

Love is our needs met,
Loathing it becomes when
the poisonous vial of betrayal
or disillusionment sets in.....
whichever occurs first....

Love is emotional stability
a feeling of comnfort, belonging,
an aroused state of euphoria,
a blissful intoxicating peace....

love scorned, spurned, denied,
becomes a desperate need, a deep intense pain.
Th brain release inbuilt tranquilisers once the plateau pain threshold is reached. This chemical is addictive, and thus we learn suvbconsciously to associate the begetting of love, with ensuing pain. Just to feel that glorious searing pain tear us aprt from within. Its a rollercoaster ride, not for the faint hearted. Blessed are they who have loved, known love, if only to lose love, and thereafter live and bask in the warmth of its memory. Unfortunately, the one 'that got away' nomatter how mediocre or mundane, grows as a colossus in our memory banks. Avoid this at all costs. Sometimes the desiring is more fulfilling than the the gaining thereof.
All is fair in Love and War.

Answer 6

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

"Men in White Apparel," Ann Ree Colton, and "Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, also.

Love is God-harmony, dynamic, peaceful, joyous, All that Is; when broken away from (for God Is Love and changes not), one is in the falling from Paradise, from Eden. It then may become a "thousand" different subtlies, shades of +/- relativity and egoistic positioning. "We've got to get back to the Garden" (Joni Mitchell).

To do so, "You've got to pick up every stitch" (Donovan), i.e., balance debts to other parts of Life, thus freeing Self from entanglement ("Entangled Minds," Dr. Dean Radin; "Awakening Love," Drs. Demetry and Clonts). Christ Jesus shows the Way: Love God completely, love colleague as Self, and love as Christ Jesus, Truth, loves. This fulfills the law and the prophets.

It is simply ironic that Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It" well resonates with her ex-husband's passing of yesterday.

cordially,

j.

Answer 7

You should provide with sufficient insularity so that love does not get broken. But if and when it is broken........like a rejection for instance, well, just shrug it off. After all how many people YOU have rejected and not thought twice about it?

Answer 8

Love is:
an outpouring of caring
of giving.
It is a deep feeling of tenderness, or empathy, protectiveness for a cherished object ,
person or another live being,
or country, home, planet or solar system (lol)

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Breakage is not an option
It is indestructable so logically it is also unbreakable.
There are many looalikes.
It doesnt come with a guarrantee
So if by chance you came by an imitation
And it broke at first or second application of internal and external pressure,

My sincerest condolences, and wishes for better luck next time.

Answer 9

Love is one of the most joyful things we can experience in our lives, love when it is broken is one of the worst.

Answer 10

Love is the game with no rules...
When love is broken, that means the game is over...:-)