What is true love?

"True love" can and will differ from person to person based on emotional maturity. To know true love you not only must love in such a way that you would give your own life at the drop of a hat to save him/her, but you must be loved in return. If you get married to someone, and fifteen years later, you can still look them in the eye and feel the same you did on your first date, then it's true love. Like the below quote; a good way to know true love is to base it on how you feel for the last person you love romantically in your life.

"We always believe that our first Love is our last, and our last Love is our first."

George Whyte-Melville

Love is love. If you love someone, you love them. Simple as that. Just because the love you feel for a friend isn't as passionate as the sort of love you'd feel towards a spouse, does that make your love for your friend less "true" than your love for your spouse?

If you mean, however, what is the purest, highest form of love, the answer is Charity. And no, I'm not talking about when you donate money to nonprofit organizations. I'm talking about Charity, the highest form of love, which requires absolutely no emotion on your part. Christians believe that Charity is the kind of love felt (for lack of a better word) by the angels, beings of pure spirit which are incapable of emotion (since emotion is of the body, and angels have no bodies). Charity is the kind of love you have when there's absolutely nothing in it for you; it is a love that comes from the intellect and not the emotions. When you forgive an enemy of his/her wrongdoings towards you, even if said enemy is not sorry, that is Charity. When you give your life for someone you don't even know, that is Charity. That, if it must be put that way, is the "true" form of love.

Thats easy, God.

When making them happy makes you happy.

"True love" is, first off, a redundant phrase, because if it isn't true, It cannot be love. Love (between two adults of different families) is a choice. It is best to make this choice consciously because you always get what you feel you deserve. Loving another person is freedom -- the freedom to be yourself and do what you enjoy without fear. Love is wings. It is not sacrifice, it is not compromise, it has nothing to do with a god. It is a willingness to join another human being in a commitment to become all that you wish to be and experience all that you have dreamed of and worked toward. Love does not ask that you abandon your principles or change yourself.

Also, I would recommend a thorough study on the differences between "lust" and "love". Our society today seems to have misconceptions as to the 2 being interchangeable, with disastrous consequences in the institution of marriage.

When you see each other and have a smile on your face, when your loved one makes a mistake and you can't get angry on him even when you try hard. When you think of spending every possible time with your loved one.
This is true love.

True love is when you are able to look at the persons' good and bad qualities day in and day out and still want to be with them, still want to have and hold a relationship with them. When you disagree, which happens in all healthy relationships, you manage to still find a part of you which has compassion for that person. It's when you love a person regardless of how they look when they wake up, even if they gain or lose a few or a lot of pounds. Love, in my opinion is a choice, we choose to love and choose not to love.

When you the put the needs of another person above your own, to a certain degree in a romantic relationship.

For instance, when you're married, putting your wife's needs about your own emotional needs is a true form of love.

True love is selfless and giving as opposed to selfish.

True love is Jesus dying for all of our sins and forgiving us for them.

Bottom line: True love is giving and a self-less act.

well, for me it is this:

i was married to the most remarkable woman for 20 years. she really seems to have a special quality that almost everyone who comes into contact with her feels and sees... a benevolence of sorts. i love her still though we are divorced, but it isn't nor was it ever true love.

on january 30, 2005 i found true love. at fifty and unmarried my very first child was born. the moment he was placed in my arms i felt completed in some unfathomable way. it felt as if i had found some connection with everything, that before i had lacked. now, as a single father i feel this almost daily when i hold my son... sometimes as tears of complete joy stream down my face, i know that i've finally found it - true love.

i also believe that this love goes one way. in other words, you may love your parents as i do. but you will never love them in the same way they are capable of loving you...and on down the line true love travels...

Letting me watch "the NFL" on sunday and not making me feel guilty about it.

It's ok everyonce in awhile to leave-----------the toilet seat up.

When the gas gauge in the car isn't on "E"

When I Iron her clothes with starch.

When there are no dishes in the sink when she gets home.

Stocking the house with groceries before the weekend arrives.

Hiring the boy next door to cut the grass.

Taking care of the "dookie" diaper.

Doing the laundry before I go to work.

Never hearing: Not tonight----------I have a headache.

Wow, there are so many answers that mine may not be as significant. Since love is an intangible and obscure existence... let me tell you what I think 'feels' like true love

- I get choked up telling her how much I care about her.
- I feel pain every time she hurts.
- every couple I see reminds me of her.
- everything I want to do I want to do with her.
- I have a craving for something I crave it with with her.
- it still excites me when she calls.
- telling each other we love each other means more each time.
- I know that I love her more now than I did yesterday.
- I can be my absolute self with her and she can do the same.
- her beauty in my eyes never fades.
- we can disagree and compromise with each other.

I can go on but then it'd be corny and even boring.

More solid answers to that question:

True love: is hard to find and painful to lose, can be the best thing that happens to you or the worst, can drive you crazy or keep you sane, can destroy lives or save them, can stop wars or start them, can clarify or confuse, pushes and pulls people away, obvious and subliminal, is impossible to define.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, 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. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8a)

There are three essential elements to true love, or consumate love. Intimacy, passion and commitment. Intimacy is the ability to share thoughts and feelings. Passion is sexual attraction and a healthy sex life. And commitment is 'being there' as in 'through sickness and health, rich and poor, etc'.

You can still have just two of the three, and they are still love, but they are not considered consumate, but fall into other categories like 'platonic love', 'parental love', 'fire-and-ice', 'contractual love', where one of the three is missing.

I've read that statistically we each only experience reciprocal consumate love at most a few times in life. By far most love we experience in life falls into the second group.

True: Proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment.

LOVE is not a feeling. Love is an action. Love is a choice.
True Love is the action to choose unconditionally in the process of offering to another human being the qualities of:
Affection, Care, Concern, Respect, Thoughtfulness, Forgiveness, Compassion, Trust, Joy and many other positive emotional expressions of value and worth toward ANY living being as being Loveable and valuable.
Those values, expressed, also might include choices with regard to "tough love," which is also True Love. Some examples of choosing tough love (as an action and not a feeling) are:
Turning a loved over to authorities when they commit a crime.
Finding help for a loved one who has a severe drug addiction.
Removing life support for a dying loved one.
In every example, Love is an action through choice.
Many humans mistake Love or True Love as being a series of emotions that equate to an intrinsic summation of justifiability. In so doing, the very foundation of any relationship is bound to fail when the expectation of the intrinsic value falls short of what was anticipated. Therefore, on the basis of a false pretense that True Love is anything other than a choice, an illusion is created. Thus, when True Love is literally the premise behind what IS true, the illusion can never be supported by what is false.
True Love, therefore, IS an action and very much a choice.

Any bond between two people requires sacrifice and compromise.
True love is merely a bond between two people that requires no sacrifice and no compromise. Unfortunately this is highly improbable/impossible. I'm not going to say that it IS impossible nor possible.
All one can do is try and find someone with thich one sacrifices and compromises the least.

When one is aware of shortcomings of the partner and yet accepts.
When the ego does not come in between in differences and one would rather clear the air, or apologise and patch up, than break-up.
When one 'desires' the partner inspite of not 'needing' or 'wanting' the other.
When you 'chose' to be with him/ her inspite of other options - not bec there are no options !
When you give each other space and respect individuality.
When you enjoy togetherness - talking or even silence - and tender touching.
When you cant even think of hurting or insult the partners feeling.
Thats true love. Maybe too idealistic ? !
And it may or may not mean that it is reciprocated. It could be unrequited for all you know. But yet the memories bring a spring to the step and a smile on your face. You never wish him/ her ill and would never harm in any way.
These are just a few points which come to my mind but there is so much more n moren more. Like true love the topic is also 'endless'.

This is definitely one of those "it depends on what those words mean to you" questions. This short answer is "Yes, of course it does." (Note: when I answered the question it read 'does true love exist') On the other hand, if you are thinking of some fairy tale "happily ever after" with not a care in the world... well... you know.

There are husbands and wives who will tell you: after 30, 40, 50 years of marriage or so, they love each other more than ever and never considered separating or leaving. I would argue this is true love. Not how they "felt" every minute about their spouses, but their mutual choices to invest their lives in their relationships. True love is a decision to make someone else important to you and put that person's interests above your own. That is what mothers typically do for their children, what friends do for each other, what lasting marriages are made of. The Bible says: greater love has no one that this, that he lays down his life for a friend (John 15:13). That is true love in the most noble sense.

You will know it when it hits you, or know it after you have lost the one you love.
Do not get lust and love mixed up. Lust is great and if lust is for the love of your life that is a bonus

True love is something beyond physical passion. It means that you two will wait for each other forever and love each other no matter what. It means you'll get through all the bad times.... like if people try to end your love, it doesn't matter, it never does end.

i think love is when youre able to look at your partner in the eyes and tell them with all your heart "i love you"....when you wake up and all you think about is that one person...when daydream about the person, when you respect your partner for who she/he is, when youre able to work a relstionship in good and bad times...when your able to fight together...

When you say to yourself: "If my spirit conjoined with another and together existed until the end of time, there is no other spirit I could be with than you, and it is an honor", you have found your true love. True love is the perfect match, it's DNA between two people that fit together like puzzle pieces, as if life itself is begging you to procreate and be bonded until death. You find your perfect match, you recognize it at the first touch, first sight. When you've found eachother, there's a familiarity, as if your atoms have already been at one at some point in space and time.

Deep inside we all know what it is, and know that it exists somewhere. The difficult part is accepting it and persuing it, and not settling for less. True love is the song of life, the thing that makes life wish to continue. Since life is intimately bonded to the heartbeat of the universe, when we feel true love, we feel a sense of timelessness, of eternity. This is why true love is eternal. This is why when love is failed, the thought of the lack of it is what you are really feeling. This is why when you've found it, everything changes and life becomes clear, as if a veil is lifted, and its influence pushes all of your decisions in life afterwards, spreading to everyone you meet. This is the source of all religion, science, art. It's the understanding of true love translated into different forms.

True love is when you commit to someone without expecting something in return, where you don't even the if's. Love varies, ex: You can't love your parents the same way your love your significant other (b/f, g/f, husband, wife).

Hello,
Speaking from my own experience, being married 27 years, I can say 'yes' true love does exist.
True love is more that an emotional feeling. Love is an action as well.
'Love is patient, love is kind, and it is not jealous; love is not arragant, and does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not keep a record of wrongs. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things. Love encourages, and lifts up, builds up the other person. Love never fails.
Now, what does this mean? This means, that after the honeymoon phase subsides, you have the rest of your lives together to work together, committed to one another, through good as well as the bad times.
My husband and I are more in love today, than we were 30 years ago when we first met. We have a history together. A history full of good times, bad times, tragedy, loss, laughter, encouragement, trust, forgiveness, mercy and faith in each other.
True love takes work, and committment, trusting in each other, believing in each other, encouraging each other. Being more than lovers, being each other's best friend.
There are seasons in every relationship. Some seasons harder than others.
One can only experience 'True Love' after years of staying together, working side by side, through the trials and tribulations, and celebrating all the wonderful times together. Cherishing one another, and being grateful.

If true love could be described then it wouldn't be love.

True love is a feeling wherein you almost feel like giving everything to a certain person without expecting anything in return and always make sure that he/she is happy even if it means experiencing pain in letting him/her go.True love never dies, it is never selfish.It will never let him/her suffer or will do anything to keep him/her away from pain. True love means being able to spend time with that person no matter what.And last but not the least, true love always have faith.

Love is the choice for the good of another. If you love someone you will want to do what is best for them, to make them happy. You will strive to meet there needs even if it means sacrifice for you. There is nothing more wonderful than two people who are striving to fully meet each other's needs, willing to sacrifice their own wants and desires to fulfill the others. This is true love. It only works well when it is mutual.

Love is a very powerful thing. True love is when the person will do things for you that others would not do. This person is totally dedicated to you. You have a strong connection with this person. If you ever break up with this person...you will experience pain that I cannot possibly describe in words to you...if I was forced to pick words...they would be "sheer hell". But, other than that...true love is a very beautiful thing. It does not come around often...so if you happen to run into it...snatch it up and never let go! Hold on to it like your life depended on it. And you will be very happy! :)

Romeo and Juliet

True love is what two people feel who love each other unconditionally, help each other out, have fun together, but be aware you have to work at a relationship to keep it going good. True love is the tool that makes having a long term relationship possible when both parties work at loving and benefiting each other.

Love is when you can look at someone and their flaws and take it.
Love is my Great grandfather and great grandmother fighting like crazy while they clean each other's ears out.
Love it a mom who allows her child to blow thier nose in her sleeve so that snot isnt running everywhere.
Love is my grandmother coming to the scene when I wrecked her car and telling me she can replace the car but not me.
Love is when someone drives an hour to see you just because they know you are having a bad day.
What is true love?
True love is the same as breathing. It isnt forced, and it is really difficult to live without. It is the little things you do for someone not out of wanting to impress them but because you simply want them to smile.

Wow, this question changed radically.

Something that is not able to be told to you. It's something you yourself have to figure out on your own. No one can tell you if what you feel is love or not. No one can tell you this is HOW love is supposed to feel. Just know, that it's different than a crush or lust and it'll hit you in the side of a head like a brick.

True love is to love someone no matter how he/she looks like

Love is love? If only we could answer all questions this way, life would be so much easier.

Love is conceptualy different to everyone, but most universal is a mutual feeling and bond between individuals that supercede life itself. there is a difference between being able to live with some one and not being able to live without them.

When you pat your dog on the head and the dog licks you cheek. Thats love. When you hear a wonderful piece of music. Thats love. Theres the wonderful love of a beautiful maid or the love of a staunch true man but the Greatest love the lovesof loves is one drunken bum for another. Not my poem , and after thirty years I probably got it wrong.

It depends when I was asked, at 10 years of age, 20, 30, 40. In fact I am shocked and disgusted by one of my answers from back then. To make matters worse, I am not sure if my answer today is guaranteed to be better than past ones. If I answer you, it will be a scam.

True Love is this:

" I am always with you, even unto the end of time.

Yet I will not impose My will on you--ever.

I choose your highest good for you, but above that, I choose your will for you. And this is the surest measure of love.

When I want for you what you want for you, then I truly love you. When I want for you what I want for you, then I am loving Me, through you.

So, too, by the same measure, can you determine whether others love you, and whether you truly love others. For love chooses naught for itself, but only seeks to make possible the choices of the beloved other."

You'll hear as many (often contradictory) definitions of true love as you hear responses, but here's the definition that hits closest to home for me: being selfish on someone else's behalf. To be in true love is to be as protective of someone else's life and interests as one is of one's own. Consequently, it's quite a rare phenomenon indeed. I'll try to elucidate further by example:

Love ("true" or otherwise) usually includes wanting to be near the object of one's affection, even when it's impossible or logically a bad idea to be so. In some cases, jealousy goes hand in hand with love, but other lovers never find it to be a problem. People in love are often in lust (i.e. they're physically attracted to each other), but love and lust can also occur independently. (Despite this, the word "love" is occasionally used to refer to lust without love; in some languages, the distinction is not clear.)

Being in love frequently causes one to see the object of love through rose-colored glasses, or to find him or her more attractive, nicer, smarter, etc. than one would otherwise. Similarly, it's easier to forgive the actions of the object of one's love than it would be if anyone else had done the same thing. It's harder to refuse a request from someone one loves than it would be to refuse the same request from a different person.

Freud suggests that anyone we truly love we also truly hate. The reason for this is that a beloved person has a power over the lover that no one else has (see previous paragraph). We recognize this power and resent it. Whether this is true for all or even most lovers cannot really be determined, both because an accurate poll would be effectively impossible and because the hatred that goes along with love is supposed to be purely subconscious.

The easiest way to find out, of course, is to fall in love yourself and then discover that you can't articulate it either.

It means what he or she thinks might be the same as the other. First of all they must be confident in their own positions. It is the only one which can only be felt and never be explained in words.

It is personified in JESUS.

submission with integrity.

Love has a vast meaning. The true love depends on purity of love and purity comes with love to God.

- Love -


When truly found
love has no measure,
It has no boundaries,
You can hold it within your arms,
yet it is as infinite in size as the universe,
It cannot be sold ... yet it is worth everything,
It has no fear of numbers by negative actions outside of two,
It allows no judgement to be separated by armies of many,
When completed by two whom have the same desire to unite as one,
It will face no force strong enough to break it,
It is a power unmatched by all that time will bring,
You will know true love when you find it.

"love is the measure of all strengths in man"

1 Corinthians
13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
13:5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
13:6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
13:7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
13:8 Love never fails.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Even though I failed the following test Jesus still loved me enough to pay my fine.
Look at the "mirror" of the Ten Commandments. Ever
lied? Stolen? Lusted (adultery of the heart - Matt. 5:27-28) or had sex out of marriage? Guilty or innocent on Judgment Day? Heaven or Hell? ("All liars will haveb their part in the lake of fire" - Rev. 21:8). Jesus took your punishment on the Cross, proving God’s love. He defeated death. Repent and trust Him - God will forgive you and give you everlasting life. Read the Bible daily, obey it - John 14:21. God will never let you down.
It's as simple as this, I broke God's Law, and Jesus paid my fine if I would repent, confess my sins to God and forsake them, and be born again by putting my faith in Jesus alone to save me on Judgment Day.
May God continue to bless you and yours!

True love is defined in 1 Corinthian 13 in the Bible.
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Happiness

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Like a Butterfly:)