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by Vesper on January 17th, 2007

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What is your personal definition of True Love, or your views on this?

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  • by Stableboy on April 14th, 2007

    Stableboy

    Love is damnably difficult to define... there's different kinds, different aspects, different levels.

    Volumes and volumes have been written about this.

    How about an easier question... like "who ELSE shot J.F.K."?

    OK << sigh >>, what is love?

    Love is opening up instead of closing down.
    Love is giving instead of taking.
    Love is listening instead of talking.
    Love is forgiving instead of resenting.
    Love is trusting instead of defending.

    Love is beyond all possibility of definition, because it has no boundaries. One doesn't learn about love by defining it, one learns about love by *becoming* it.

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  • by Farino on May 13th, 2007

    Farino

    I'm pretty sure I will receive bad reviews but here it goes.

    Love is a biochemical defense mechanism. When we meet someone that has virtues where we have flaws we like to keep them around. This is because when we need help with anything they will be there to do what you can't. The more useful to our survival they are the more we want them around. So what the unconscious does is secrete endomorphines and dopemines that make you feel happy when they are in your presence, the closer they are the more chemicals are released making you feel happier.

    So you may be able to love someone without liking them because they do not share any interests with you. Which is why some marriages do not work, even if there is mutual love. That is why you hear the phrase "sometimes only love isn't good enough."

    Just because love is chemical doesn't mean that its results are artificial. All of the peotry written and paintings painted in the name of love was done from the heart, all of the feats achieved to prove one's love were done in earnest and all of the acts of making love are still the most enjoyable things one can experience.

    However the question I suppose is not 'how do you define love?' But 'how do you know when you are in love?' The only answer I can think is that if you ever ask 'am I in love?' Then quite frankly you are not!

    In response to the question below: It is the process of needing them, or their organ, that produces the emotion. Emotion is merely the unconscious's way of telling the conscious what to do that benefits your state at any given moment.

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  • by Scottix on June 5th, 2007

    Scottix

    1 Corinthians 13
    Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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  • by Millenium - The Mysterious M. . . GONE! on April 29th, 2009

    Millenium - The Mysterious M. . . GONE!

    Reciprocity in all things "good" !

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  • by Sodahead on April 29th, 2009

    Sodahead

    If she will bring me another beer without giving me and back talk, that is love.

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  • by Chuunin Ninja on July 26th, 2007

    Chuunin Ninja

    Thats hard. I can give you reasons why i really really like my girlfriend but as to why i love her..i just do nobody can tell me if i do or not, i dont even question myself when i think of love i see her.

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  • by American idle on July 26th, 2007

    American idle

    There's too many different kinds. Motherly, food, friends, music, mates, art, pets....

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  • by Wickels on July 26th, 2007

    Wickels

    A semi-tangible force that draws two people close together and causes them to do very irrational things. Often is confused with lust, especially by those new to either feeling.

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  • by JamesD on April 12th, 2007

    JamesD

    Love is the best emotion you can get from other people. It's even better if you give it to others.

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  • by Twisted Taco on April 29th, 2009

    Twisted Taco

    A four-letter word

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  • by Karen Anne Queen of AB on April 29th, 2009

    Karen Anne Queen of AB

    Two hands outstretched on a cross with nails going through His wrists and feet. If that isn't love, what is? For God so loved the world...

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  • by Anonymous on January 12th, 2009

    Anonymous

    when you love that person for them you want to be a part of their life their whole life. you love them for the mistakes they have made and every little flaw because with out them it wouldnt be the one you love. someone that even when you hate the world you can never hate them even if you say you want to be left alone inside you know you just want them by your side even if you dont say a word. someone who will be so honest that it may hurt but you know they are honest because they care. someone who you would not only do anything for them but also for those who mean a lot to them like friends and family. you are willing to sacrafice for them to the point of losing some of the most precious things in your life but its ok because they still mean more. someone you want to spend your life with and you know even if you live in a trailer or a huge house either way it does not matter because you are happy together. someone who when they say something hurtful it kills a bit of you inside and even after years after it still kills you to think about because if that person didnt matter so much what they said wouldnt have mattered. someone you love doing things for because it makes you happy to someone that you wake up wanting to be with but know if you dont talk or see one another that day it will be ok because they are not going any where that they will be there the next day. someone you can be open with look your worse or be the biggest bitch and its still ok... there are so many things and its always the small unique things that let you know. its not the same for everyone and shouldnt be... i know i found my guy and i would give anything for him and have

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  • by ConservativelyLiberal on April 27th, 2009

    ConservativelyLiberal

    Love is knowing you're doing something stupid, and not caring because it's what they asked you to do. It's waking up in the morning sick, because they left you. It's giving them every last dollar you have knowing they're lying to you, but you don't want to believe. It's being in the middle of having sex with someone and wondering if they know what you're betraying them, even months after your divorce.

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  • by Darth 5349U11 on April 30th, 2009

    Darth 5349U11

    i don't think ther is TRUE love, and love as what it is, is someone trying to put meaning into lust

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  • by vanesita on January 12th, 2009

    vanesita

    my def of love is..well what i feel towards my bf.

    when i can't sleep because i want to keep my eyes open, its not when i see him everywhere its when i close my eyes & hes still there with me..willing to give give & give more. when my heart skips a beat..my stomach is a cocun when iam not with him & turns into a million butterflies around him, its the feeling i feed off him..its clearly undefinable because nothing can honestly define it : )

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  • by Curious on April 30th, 2009

    Curious

    When you put the best interest of that person first and foremost above all others(including yourself)
    If you are talking about True Love in the Romantic sense...then: all the above, plus a need, a want, a lust(yes lust)for that person and only that person.

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  • by Pater Murmidonorum on April 29th, 2009

    Pater Murmidonorum

    An emotional attachment that drives a person to place the needs/benefit of the object of this emotion above his own, and to be with it at all cost, except of course at the cost of the object itself.

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  • by e gnome on April 29th, 2009

    e gnome

    As a noun or verb?

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  • by Bigessfour wears a Army COAT on September 22nd, 2008

    Bigessfour wears a Army COAT

    That is different for everyone you ask. Love to me is only wanting to be with that other person, and pleasing them. What does it mean to you?

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  • by moondawgie on May 13th, 2007

    moondawgie

    When someone's well-being matters more to you than your own.

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  • by Anonymous on May 13th, 2007

    Anonymous

    A question o'er the ages...

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  • by -O-uknow on May 13th, 2007

    -O-uknow

    Self-sacrifice

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  • by Anonymous on April 14th, 2007

    Anonymous

    Hurtful.

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  • by anonymous on January 18th, 2007

    anonymous

    When you would do absolutely anything and everything for someone. You feel better just by seeing them, and making them happy makes you even more happy.

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  • by Singingismystyle on June 5th, 2007

    Singingismystyle

    1 Corinthians 13 is a great reference explaining what love is.

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  • by Mirage V2.0 AWOL on January 17th, 2007

    Mirage V2.0 AWOL

    http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/14548

    See:
    What is true love?

    Very similar question.

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  • by mediaskate648 on January 17th, 2007

    mediaskate648

    I don't believe that theres one person meant for everybody, people and things are always changing, so if you fall in love with someone after a while they might be a completely different person later. I think that if your actually in love with someone you would never want to hurt that person, and you can't imagine what it would be like without them in your life.

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  • by ron4540 on May 13th, 2007

    ron4540

    So how do you know -- you just know. Maybe you doodle their name in your notebook during a meeting, think about them a lot & smile, etc. -- you just know. There's a sense of divine connection -- and a longing to want to be around the person. Love is a non-drug induced natural high.

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  • by iwnit on May 22nd, 2007

    iwnit

    LOVE: love in capitals
    love: what one should feel towards others

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  • by NikonRob Goodbye on June 5th, 2007

    NikonRob Goodbye

    Love is nothing more then self want, you only love someone because you want things in return. I think it is a false emotion that is nothing more then instinct to want to better ourself with attention.

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  • by Brian I on June 5th, 2007

    Brian I

    Love is when you want to give as much as you possibly can without expecting anything in return. Of course, if you're lucky, the person you love feels the same way about you.

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  • by jenny_gurlie1984 on June 5th, 2007

    jenny_gurlie1984

    Love is selfless let me show a little example of love:

    My boyfriend was playing college football for the college he dreamt of playing for since he was a little boy, had a scholarship, was having the time of his life. One day he gets a phone call his Dad has been arrested and his younger brother and sister are being placed in foster care, and they will remain there until a family member takes them, both parents are screw-ups and he is the only family member left, my boyfriend leaves behind his dream comes home and is now raising them on his own ( well i help as much as he let's me) THATS LOVE

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  • by American idle on June 5th, 2007

    American idle

    Your children and animals. (Well, to ME, anyway.)

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  • by LiLDoe on June 5th, 2007

    LiLDoe

    The unconditional love of a child/newborn. There's nothing else like it. No judgement No expectations. Just pure clean love

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  • by WHITE BEAR on May 22nd, 2007

    WHITE BEAR

    Unconditional acceptance of another.
    Placing ones other interests at heart.
    Kindliness and compassion.
    Sexual attraction is not love, its lust.

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  • by Indielauper on May 22nd, 2007

    Indielauper

    Unconditional love, companionship, friendship

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  • by auroraborealis on February 4th, 2011

    auroraborealis

    True love is being willing to step into the unknown with this person and accept him/her for all their beauty and faults. True love is also being brave enough to make sacrifices and let go of this person if fate or destiny deems it so. It is having the faith that your love for this person will endure and no distance or separation can ever really destroy your bond...even if you never see him/her again.

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