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  • Love is a natural high. When you are in love, your brain releases chemicals that cause you to feel euphoria, as well as giving you energy, making you more alert and other things. (Certain street drugs cause these same chemicals to be released and that's why they are so addictive... unfortunately street drugs have very nasty and cumulative side effects.) When you make a plan to meet with someone with whom you're in love, you may experience a rush of pleasure at the thought of spending time with them. When you are apart from your love, you think about them often. Friendships do not cause feelings this intense. You might look forward to spending time with a friend, but you don't feel lightheaded with glee at the thought of spending time with a friend as you do spending time with your love. The feelings I am referring to mellow with time. A couple married for 20 years might not feel the same rush described above when they get home and see each other after work, but a long-term love deepens and fulfills you... So while the "rush of pleasure" part does fade with time, you still feel happy being with that person and in some ways even more so.
  • When you tuely love a person, your heart will tell you. The person you love is who you will wake up thinking about, and go to bed thinking about. With love comes pain if the feelings aren't mutual. Love is something you cannot control.
  • This is one of those places where you must define your words. Love can mean anything from "I expect affection from" to "my hormones go nuts at the slightest thought of" to "I would lay down my life for," and this does not capture all of the things people think and feel when they imagine "love." One of my favorite definitions of love goes something like: the decision and motivation to invest myself (time, life, money) in what is best for someone else. This fits the love between a mother and child, a husband and wife or between best friends (or ought to...). I can really like someone's company without being motivated to invest myself in that person. I find unsatisfying any definition of love that centers on how I feel or what I want. To me that is not "real love," but something else. I am convinced that feelings are untrustworthy. You will feel different based on how well you slept, what you ate, sickness, allergies and a myriad of other irrelevant influences, but I believe real love transcends feeling. Obviously many people "feel" differently about "love."
  • Love is the deep and total commitment you make to another person, with whom you share your life in a fashion unlike anyone else. Liking someone is far more detached.
  • The difference is what you would put on the line for that person and how much crap you are willing to take from that person. that's it!
  • Sacrifice. You can like someone without being committed to them or caring more about them then yourself. Love means you genuinely care about the person and act in their best interests even when the emotions aren't there. It's not just an emotion, but knowledge of how much the person means to you that results in an active commitment and choices consistent with doing what is in the best interests of the other person BECAUSE you care about them, even if at the expense of your own wellbeing. Love is patient, kind, longsuffering, not self-seeking/self-gratifying, etc... In short, love puts another person at the same level as oneself, if not higher. True love means you are not only willing to die for the person, but even to live for them, even if that means drawn out torture or poverty on their behalf. Simply looking up to a person, liking them, will only go so far. Once you're called to really sacrifice yourself and your interests for them, then you see whether you just like them or whether you love them.
  • To love someone is to give your heart to them. It is more powerful than like. Like can mean that you have a crush on that person or you don't hate them. But loving is just thinking about them a lot.
  • I agree with Answerer. If you "like" someone that is nice but not even close to love. I like my neighbors, but does not mean I love them. In a relationship, when it first starts out, and someone tells you she "likes" you, that is a good start. If you love someone that takes time, total trust and for them to be your best friend and lover.
  • By definition Love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person... Like is defined as corresponding or agreeing in general or in some noticeable respect; similar; analogous. I think the difference is considerable, to go from gererally agreeing to something, to being passionately affectionate says quite alot, hope this helps.
  • One is rational. The other isn't.
  • Like: to have a kindly or friendly feeling Love: a profoundly tender, passionate affection
  • Like-Jealousy, heartbreak, lust, temporary Love-Trust, honesty, forever, passion [pardon the cliche, but...] You *like* someone you can live with, you *love* someone you can't live without
  • To me, when you "like" someone you think what can they do for me? But when you "love" someone you think what can I do for them. When you automatically put the other person ahead of yourself, that's love.
  • Like is... Exactly what it sounds like, having a likng for a person and thinking of them in a positive, possibly romantic way, it can often lead to love, but even more often gets mistaken for love, and that so often leads to pain and heartbreak. Love is... Alot harder to explain, all I have to reference it by is my personal experience, but in my experience, it means caring about that person more than or equaly to how much you care for your own life and well being, feeling sad and semi-heartbroken just being apart from them, actualy having deep feelings towards them despite logical explanation or all your sensibiliies, rather than just the logical thought involved in 'likeing' someone. Really, the dividing line between like and love, is that like can be a logical thing, love on the other hand, follows no reason or rules, love is unconditional, like is'nt.
  • Love to me - It is a inner feeling that sometimes you can't explain,and can feel great and sometimes there can be a feeling of hurt Like to me - Is a feeling that you can look forward to sharing your secrets and trust what you say stays between the both of you -- Actually that also fits in with Love
  • If you love someone, you don't care that you're not 'together', you don't care that you can kiss them or anything. All you care about is that as long you can see them, that you could be beside them, even as a friend. Liking is essential for love.i.e liking his smile, liking his laugh etc. True love...I think that it's a feeling you will never feel the same towards anyone else.
  • Love is such a strong and powerful feeling. Personally, I much prefer like. Love has gotten me into trouble to many times before. I do not think you can feel love for a thing. Only a person or animal.
  • Love is passion and affection greatly for one person. Like may be finding someone pleseant or awesome and feeling a good chemistry with.
  • Love means a strong positive emotion of regard and affection like means prefer or wish to do something EG.Would you like to come along to the movies
  • I hope so, otherwise I've been doing something very wrong all these years.
  • Love is an active thing and like is a feeling. Love goes beyond emotion - it is acting on a passion for someone or something. "Like" is getting a pleasurable feeling from someone or something. It's a response.
  • You can like someone by the way they look. But if you love someone, its probably because you've talked to them, and they have a great personality, you can still think they look hot though!! Also when you get butterflies in your stomach before you see them or just thinking abut them, then you probably love them. I know what your thinking. "this girl's only 12" i might be, but i do know a thing or two about guys! (even if your a guy talking about like/loving girls)
  • A distinct lack of pants.
  • Like is... Exactly what it sounds like, having a likng for a person and thinking of them in a positive, possibly romantic way, it can often lead to love, but even more often gets mistaken for love, and that so often leads to pain and heartbreak. Love is... Alot harder to explain, all I have to reference it by is my personal experience, but in my experience, it means caring about that person more than or equaly to how much you care for your own life and well being, feeling sad and semi-heartbroken just being apart from them, actualy having deep feelings towards them despite logical explanation or all your sensibiliies, rather than just the logical thought involved in 'likeing' someone. Really, the dividing line between like and love, is that like can be a logical thing, love on the other hand, follows no reason or rules, love is unconditional, like is'nt.
  • Maybe you can like many people, but just one of them you'll fall in love with.
  • LIKE is a feeling that "might" lead to LOVE.. but LOVE is impossible to lead to LIKE.
  • the same difference as "disliking" and really "hating" a person
  • liking is more like having interest on someone, which makes u 'care' on him/ her..while love is 2*liking + 3*caring + 5*sacrifices and more....wait till i can find the right 'equation' to define love..hmm
  • Like is when you do something and you dont expect any return. Love is the opposite.
  • Yes I do - you?
  • I would hope that everyone knows.
  • I like lots n lots of people, but I love only a few. not as in romantically lol.
  • Yes I do. Thanks for asking.
  • Sure.... I love to be liked and I like always love to be loved. Like what's up?????? LOL
  • Like - is something pleasant and it would please your eyes... Love - is something makes your feel special and want to give....
  • Yes. And I can like someone as well as love them. And I can love somebody but not like them very much. Or I can like them but not love them.
  • You can't help who you love, but you can who you like....This was told to me by my step father who was dieing of cancer....(we hit heads a lot because he was an arrogant SOB and only really liked himself).....and then he finished with...and I like you....you never know in life.....
  • like- lasts briefly,but love stays
  • Love is a deep/intense feeling, like is more superficial.
  • Love to me is usually attached to unwritten expectations like commitment- like on the other hand are flexible and less committed.
  • Like is when you like someone but not physically attracted to them. Love is where again you like someone, but fancy them and have strong feelings. You want more but cannot get enough, you become very sensitive and vulnerable to rejection. There is a thin line between love and hate. Love turns to hate upon rejection. Or you are so obsessed with the thought that your love is perfect that rejection is not possible and you get used and abused. Alternatively if the love is reciprocated then wedding bells.
  • Today u like it , tommorow u wont , but thats not the case with love :)
  • If you have to ask it's not love.

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