Different for everyone I guess, but when you feel it you will just know. I first realised when I found myself missing someone that I had only just seen.

For a bloke it's an uplifting experience, usually just below the midrift !

Lovely.

When it comes to love you will just know. You can feel it in your heart and when you can't stop thinking about that certain someone. Love is when you can actually accept a person for who they are and can picture yourself having a long term relationship with them.

It feels like a waste of time, it feels like a hole in your wallet, it feels like a standing in the sun for hours as the heat steals all your energy. It feels like you're in prison and you'll never be able to get out...oh...wait...isn't love supposed to be a good thing? Maybe it just doesn't exist.

its like sleep when you were awake for three days in a row, its like water when you are dehydrated, its like the sun after years of rain, its like smiling when you have always cried, but i cant describe it, i think you have to feel it to know. i think its closest to feeling sick, but then the opposite of it.(and i dont mean feeling healthy)

The best natural "high" you can ever have.

Total bubbling happiness.

like trying to hold a bowl of jelly (without the bowl) in your bare hands

It can make you feel like walking on the clouds or digging yourself a deep grave.

i wish

True love... I imagine it feels like a string pulling your heart to theirs. I never have felt it so I don't really know.

Real life ok. I believe I have found true love. We work together as a team in every aspect of our relationship. He helps tremendously with my children which are not his although he loves them like they are. We are truly happy.

the feeling you get after a perfect score.

Total elation while it lasts.

leaning to the left and doing a satisfying fart, then your spousse doing the same thing except his/her fart was 10 times longer. then both of you laughing about how you shouldn;t have ordered mexican. thats true love

Trapping your partner under the covers after you let one rip, and instead of cracking the shits she gives you some great head while she's down there.

Like the other half is a one half of your self. More or less the both of you become one. And if it came down to it, you would give you're life to save theirs.........M.C.S.

You cant explain what true love is. You can only feel it.

hah! I just tried to ask this same question - we must think alike. My answer would be ease. Love to me is like a comfy blanket, something I can wrap myself up in and be totally at peace. But it's also passion, that feels more like a hot bath - soft, smooth, and clean - a sensory overload.

Honestly, in my opinion, .. love is not a feeling. Love is wanting the best for another person.

love is a special friendship shared between two people. its an emotional relationship between the giver and the reciever.

It feels like a nice trip to cloud 9,just heaven, but then when you get there you get bludgeoned to death.

Like you are one - a part of that person you become one and you are not complete without the other.

making me a live.... and give you some hope...

It feels different for everyone, but basically in the beginning it's never wanting to be away from them, you get happier just seeing them or hearing their voice, you want to hang out with them whenever you can, you just want to see them smile. You feel warm, and cozy, and happy. And you can relate to all those sappy movies about love.

it feels good:-)

I can't describe it, it's like when someone tries to explain the love for a child, you can't imagine the depth and the strength of it until you have witnessed it yourself.

Like eating the best bowl of ice cream until you realize you gained 5 pounds in one day.

You feel all warm and tingly inside.

My personal belief (after a lot of practice (and failure)..lol) is that the first maybe two years one's feelings are more dictated by hormonal activity..which may or may not turn into a deeper love. Nobody can predict actual outcomes and if you are unsure,wait 'til you are before committing. Having said that, I think true love can only be measured by time,and love does grow over time in a relationship that has a good base. Like a house or home...you need to build good foundations and they will hopefully stand the test of time,certainly anything less will not and will be doomed to eventually crumble and cause a flood of distress to one or both.

Worth dying for.

like you dont know weather to laugh, cry, sit, stand, dance around or lay down. Its like everything in the entire universe is unimportant and the only thing that matters is the love you have. Its evil.

It feels something like: "Gonna find my baby. Gonna hold her tight. Gonna grab some afternoon deeelight. My motto's always been when it's right it's right............ Sky rockets in flight. Afternoon delight! Oh oh afternoon delight!"

the only true love i know is between me and my immediate family and i know that when they arent around i worry and my heart feels like breaking and i feel so helpless, love makes me feel helpless.

It's the most wonderful feeling in the world to know that someone loves you so completely that none of your flaws or imperfections matter to them and even when you are the biggest jerk that love never changes. I was truly blessed knowing thatlove for 2 wonderful years and I would not trade it for all the riches in the world

it really hurts when it's not mutual, you feel like your heart/chest is all wounded and even thought he can't love you, you keep loving him, it drives you nuts, and you can't understand what's happening to you, you want to cry all the time, but then again when it's mutual i guess it's heaven and it rocks, and it feels good...

Love cannot be described in words....it can only be felt. The same goes to all emotions.

Love feels like fudge tastes. Yummmmmmmmy

Honestly, it feels like I'm high sometimes. The endorphin rush, my breathing becomes easier, I feel more comfortable, satisfied. It's awesome if it's with the one who loves you in return. ;)

depends on you and wether or not your desperate and it also depends on what type of love your talking about.

Sweet poison!

an elixir

it feels amazing, to know that someone loves and cares about you so much, it feels warm and safe, it feels like your heart is melting. x

You'll just know ,,when it attacks ya ,,!

LOVE IS A BITCH!! THATS ALL I GOTTA SAY !!!

Like an orgasm. lol

You know you are in love with somebody when you wake up next to them, comfortable despite your breath smelling like week-old water at the bottom of a vase, when you are terribly excited to seem them, to talk to them again, after having missed them after all that sleep. you can fall out of bed into the shower and, still comfortable, burp or even fart while trying out various keys in which to sing the theme to a Peter Greenaway movie that you both hated and have never seen. This person makes you feel safe. So safe that you can confide in them and know that they won't use that information against you. S/He has the ability to make everything okay. Sometimes, it's when he takes care of you when you're really sick, slaving over a hot stove while s/he makes homemade chicken noodle soup just for you.

its a great feeling fills you up and takes over your mind and senses, then the one you love moves in to take advantage. so Im going to back up the sweet poison response

having migraines..either you are in intense pain..or feeling good (ahhhh medication)

the best happy joy zzzz :D

A warm, cozy blanket:)

Like a drug,that keeps you coming for more.

Love is like a war

Really, really good. You can't really put it in words. Sorta like describing how water tastes. You will know it when it happens, or at least I did.

Fatal.

You dont want to know..try to avoid it...it will only kill you in the end one way or another.

you will never know until you have kids

To me, it feels like I`m lost in the middle of nowhere. I can`t find my way out, but the truth is I really don`t want to and I`m scared the day will come when I do find my way out. It is the best feeling in the world!

Better than any good feeling there is

i will never know.

If you are a beginner you probably can't feel our love on AB. Listen love is something that takes a very long time to accomplish and starts out emotionally and then moves on to the final stage of physical. Making love is not "love" to most people. Many see it just as sex. To make love to someone they are connected to you mind, heart, and soul. Only after these are aligned, then the physical is the cherry on top. Or at least that's what I've heard :)

It feels wonderful to love because you will be happy a lot that you love them an they love you

for the guy it feels like completion. the push to mate is over and one can relax. for the gal it means the push to mate is over and one can settle down and raise a family.

u feel high with no drugs,, u feel over the world without wings u feel ur stomach twisted when u see them u dont feel wutever u do with anyone else just them a unique one of a kind messed up good beautiful feeling u'd never trade with the world =)

I feel more fulfilled as a human being.

You feel complete... undescribable happiness Once you lose that love... Life becomes the complete opposite. (not to pretty)

It's hard to describe; it's like overwhelming happiness...and even if you've been in love, you feel like you never knew what love was once you look into the eyes of your newborn baby; it's an honest, unconditional, whole-hearted, natural happiness.

Don't know yet, because I have had several relationships but I really didn't feel committed in any of them. Society says we must pair up but there is too much to sample.

it is the most realistic and dominating feeling there is, and it depends on if the feelings are returned. she never loved me and it sucked so bad. it is something that you feel all the time, a constant comfort...and it is not the same without the love you lost. do you smoke? it is like weed. you get used to it being there, the peace i mean. but then like herioin you get to the point where you kinda need it. you have to feel it and it may take some time until you relize you have love...it sometimes needs to set in. but if you have it you will know when it is gone.

It is the most beautifully-painful thing you can expierence...I highly reccomend it

You feel that you wouldf do ANYTHING for the one you love.

Sometimes it's the greatest feeling in the world, feels like your heart has butterflies, or like its smiling. But it can also be torture. It can feel like you hate someone you love more than someone you don't care about if you get in a fight. Totally worth it though.

It's a lot like being high on cocaine or other intoxicants....;-D... This is your brain on love When you're attracted to someone, is your gray matter talking sense -- or just hooked? Scientists take a rational look. By Susan Brink, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 30, 2007 Her front brain is telling her he's trouble. Look at the facts, it says. He's never made a commitment, he drinks too much, he can't hold down a job. But her middle brain won't listen. Man, it swoons, he looks great in those jeans, his black hair curls onto his forehead so adorably, and when he drags on a cigarette, he's so bad he's good. His front brain is lecturing, too: She's flirting with every guy in the place, and she can drink even you under the table, it says. His mid-brain is unresponsive, distracted by her legs, her blouse and her come-hither stare. "What could you be thinking?" their front brains demand. Their middle brains, each on a quest for reward, pay no heed. Alas, when it comes to choosing mates, smart neurons can make dumb choices. Sure, if the brain's owner is in her 40s and has been around the block a few times, she might grab her bag and scram. If the guy has reached seasoned middle age, he might think twice about that cleavage-baring temptress. Wisdom -- at least a little -- does come with experience. But if the objects of desire are in their 20s, all bets are off. A lot will depend on the influence of Mom and Dad's marriage, the gossip and urgings of friends, and whether life experience has convinced these two brains that what they're looking at is attractive. She just might sidle over to Mr. Wrong and bat her eyes. And he could well give in to temptation. And so the dance of attraction, infatuation and ultimately love begins. It's a dance that holds many mysteries, to psychologists as well as to the willing participants. Science is just beginning to parse the inner workings of the brain in love, examining the blissful or ruinous fall from a medley of perspectives: neural systems, chemical messengers and the biology of reward. It was only in 2000 that two London scientists selected 70 people, all in the early sizzle of love, and rolled them into the giant cylinder of a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner, or fMRI. The images they got are thought to be science's first pictures of the brain in love. The pictures were a revelation, and others have followed, showing that romantic love is a lot like addiction to alcohol or drugs. The brain is playing a trick, necessary for evolution, by associating something that just happened with pleasure and attributing the feeling to that magnificent specimen right before your eyes. All animals mate: The most primitive system in the brain, one that even reptiles have, knows it needs to reproduce. Turtles do it but then lay their eggs in the sand and head back to sea, never seeing their mate again. Human brains are considerably more complicated, with additional neural systems that seek romance, others that want comfort and companionship, and others that are just out for a roll in the hay. Yet the chemistry between two people isn't just a matter of molecules careening around the brain, dictating feelings like some game of neuro-billiards. Attraction also involves personal history. "Our parents have an effect on us," says Helen Fisher, evolutionary anthropologist at Rutgers University who studies human attraction. "So does the school system, television, timing, mystery." Every book ever read, and every movie ever wept through, starts charting a course toward the chosen one. The love dance "Love," that one small word, stands for a hodgepodge of feelings and drives: lust, romance, passion, attachment, commitment and contentment. Studying this brew is made harder because the pathways aren't totally distinct. Lust and romance, for example, have some overlapping biology, even though they are not the same thing. Similarly, the dance that leads, if we're lucky, to a stable commitment moves through several key steps. First comes initial attraction, the spark. If someone's going to pick one person out of the billions of opposite-sex humans out there, it's this step that starts things rolling. Next comes the wild, dizzying infatuation of romance -- a unique magic between two people who can't stop thinking about each other. The brain uses its chemical arsenal to focus our attention on one person, forsaking all others. "Everyone knows what that feels like. This is one of the great mysteries. It's the love potion No. 9, the click factor, interpersonal chemistry," says Gian Gonzaga, senior research scientist at eHarmony Labs. The passion lasts at least for a few months, two to four years tops, says relationship researcher Arthur Aron, psychologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. As it fades, something more stable takes over: the steady pair-bonding of what's called companionate love. It's a heartier variety, characterized by tenderness, affection and stability over the long haul. Far less is known about the brains of people celebrating their silver anniversaries or more, but researchers are beginning to recruit such couples to find out. When Kelly and Robert Iblings of Calabasas had their first face-to-face meeting after a month of corresponding online, all signs of a spark were there. Kelly, 30, recalls thinking "Wow!" Robert, 33, thought Kelly was beautiful. "I love his height," Kelly says of Robert's 6-foot-4 frame. "And those eyes. He's quite handsome. I mean, look at him. He's cute. He's hot." "She's very cute," Robert says. "And I like the way she laughs." Their brains' signals were in sync, and it was good. It probably didn't hurt that they were a little bit nervous about meeting each other. For years, scientists have known that attraction is more likely to happen when people are aroused, be it through laughter, anxiety or fear. Aron tested that theory in 1974 on the gorgeous but spine-chilling heights of the Capilano Canyon Suspension Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia -- a 5-foot wide, 450-foot, wobbly, swaying length of wooden slats and wire cable suspended 230 feet above rocks and shallow rapids. His research team waited as unsuspecting men, between ages 18 and 35 and unaccompanied by women, crossed over. About halfway across the bridge, each man ran into an attractive young woman claiming to be doing research on beautiful places. She asked him a few questions and gave him her phone number in case he had follow-up questions. The experiment was repeated upriver on a bridge that was wide and sturdy and only 10 feet above a small rivulet. The same attractive coed met the men, brandishing the same questionnaire. The result? Men crossing the scary bridge rated the woman on the Capilano bridge more attractive. And about half the men who met her called her afterward. Only two of 16 men on the stable bridge called. Fear got their attention and aroused emotional centers in the brain. "People are more likely to feel aroused in a scary setting," Aron says. "It's pretty simple. You're feeling physiologically aroused, and it's ambiguous why. Then you see an attractive person, and you think, 'Oh, that's why.' " In a laboratory, Aron tested his arousal theory further by having people run in place for 10 minutes, and compared them with people who didn't run. Those who had exercised were more attracted to good-looking people in photographs than those who had been sedentary. Any kind of physiological arousal would probably do the trick, Aron concludes from his studies. Couples who ride roller coasters, laugh at a really funny comedian or escape a burning building together get an emotional jolt and could attribute the feeling to the attractiveness of the other. The forces of attraction are in many ways mysterious, but scientists know certain things. Studies have shown that women prefer men with symmetrical faces and that men like a certain waist-to-hip ratio in their mates. One study even found that women, when they sniffed men's T-shirts, were attracted to certain kinds of body odors. That initial spark can flash and fade. Or it can become a flame and then a fire, a rush of exhilaration, yearning, hunger and sense of complete union that scientists know as passionate love. Key to this state of seeing a person as a soul mate instead of a one-night stand is the limbic system, nestled deep within the brain between the neocortex (the region responsible for reason and intellect) and the reptilian brain (responsible for primitive instincts). Altered levels of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin -- neurotransmitters also associated with arousal -- wield their influence. But passionate love is something far stronger than that first sizzle of chemistry. "It's a drive to win life's greatest prize, the right mating partner," Fisher says. It is also, she adds, an addiction. People in the early throes of passionate love, she says, can think of little else. They describe sleeplessness, loss of appetite, feelings of euphoria, and they're willing to take exceptional risks for the loved one. Brain areas governing reward, craving, obsession, recklessness and habit all play their part in the trickery. In an experiment published as a chapter in a 2006 book, "Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience," Fisher found 17 people who were in relationships for an average of seven months. She knew they were in love from their answers to what researchers call the Passionate Love Scale. They all said they'd feel deep despair if their lover left, and they yearned to know all there was to know about the loved one. She put these lovesick, enraptured people in an fMRI to see what areas of their brains got active when they saw a photograph of their beloved ones. "We found some remarkable things," she said. "We saw activity in the ventral tegmental area and other regions of the brain's reward system associated with motivation, elation and focused attention." It's the same part of the brain that presumably is active when a smoker reaches for a cigarette or when gamblers think they're going to win the lottery. No wonder it's as hard to say no to the feeling of romantic arousal as it would be to say no to a windfall in the millions. The brain has seen what it wants, and it's going to get it. "At that point, you really wouldn't notice if he had three heads," Fisher says. "Or you'd notice, but you'd choose to overlook it." Other studies also suggest that the brain in the first throes of love is much like a brain on drugs. Lucy Brown, professor of neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has also taken fMRI images of people in the early days of a new love. In a study reported in the July 2005, Journal of Neurophysiology, she too found key activity in the ventral tegmental area. "That's the area that's also active when a cocaine addict gets an IV injection of cocaine," Brown says. "It's not a craving. It's a high." You see someone, you click, and you're euphoric. And in response, your ventral tegmental area uses chemical messengers such as dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin to send signals racing to a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens with the good news, telling it to start craving. "The other person becomes a goal in your life," Brown says. He or she becomes a goal you might die without and would pack up and move across the country for. That one person begins to stand out as the one and only. Biologically, the cravings and pleasure unleashed are as strong as any drug. Surely such a goal is worth taking risks for, and other alterations in the brain help ensure that the lovelorn will do just that. Certain regions, scientists have found, are being deactivated, such as within the amygdala, associated with fear. "That's why you can do such insane things when you're in love," Fisher says. "You would never otherwise dream of driving across the country in 13 hours, but for love, you would." Sooner or later, excited brain messages reach the caudate nucleus, a dopamine-rich area where unconscious habits and skills, such as the ability to ride a bike, are stored. The attraction signal turns the love object into a habit, and then an obsession. According to a 1999 study in the journal Psychological Medicine, people newly in love have serotonin levels 40% lower than normal people do -- just like people with obsessive-compulsive disorders. Experiments in other mammals add to the human chemical findings. Female prairie voles, for example, develop a distinct preference for a specific male after mating, and the preference is associated with a 50% increase in dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. But when the monogamous vole is injected with a dopamine antagonist, blocking the activity of the chemical, she'll readily dump her partner for another. Using their heads Kelly and Robert Iblings, now married for nine months, are fascinated by all this talk of nucleus accumbens, addiction and primitive mating instincts. Sure, they admit, they found each other attractive. But they were also making use of their front brains' sharp thinking skills. They were remembering painful past lessons and looking for signs of compatibility. They had each survived an earlier, failed engagement, and they knew what they were looking for this time around. They were listening to their front brains as they told them to look for compatibility, stability, shared values and commitment. From their first e-mail exchanges through eHarmony, an Internet dating service, the Iblings each felt they had found a unique mate. She liked to travel. So did he. They both love books and learning, have similar religious beliefs and come from loving, intact families. She no sooner sent an e-mail telling him about an exhibit she saw on a business trip to New York than he sent a message back telling her he knew of the exhibit because he had bought a book on it the day before. Coincidence, or soul mate? The front brain certainly gets involved as it ponders all of life's experiences and past mistakes, researchers say -- but not just the front brain. The nucleus accumbens, virtual swamp of dopamine that it is, is also holder of memories. Its quest for reward is influenced by childhood experiences, friends, previous failed engagements or the jerk who cheated on you. The sum of those experiences make some people attracted to a prince or a frog, a princess or a shrew. And, as it happens, practical matters such as whether a couple both like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain do matter in igniting passionate love. A research project headed by eHarmony Labs' Gonzaga interviewed 1,200 dating and newlywed couples. The results, reported in the July issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, found that those who reported similar interests and feelings were more satisfied. "Those who reported chemistry said they felt at ease, relaxed, connected. They knew they had some things in common," he says. "Chemistry is more than just being hot or handsome." Clearly, in the matters of love, the stars were aligned for the Iblings. When they met, they were ready for each other. But they were also attracted to each other. The chemistry was there. Most relationship researchers think it has to be. They had what it took to kick-start the relationship with an undeniable urgency, allowing two people to give up the candy store of other choices and commit to each other. Odds are that in two to four years, this urgency will fade -- and the couple will, if all goes well, settle in for the long haul with companionate love. Such peoples' lives are entwined, as are their property and bank accounts, and they begin to answer questionnaires differently. The rush and the urgency is gone, but they feel committed, emotionally close and stable. It is the state that many desire, yet it is the least studied. There's a reason for that. Most studies of couples are of college students and young newlyweds. Brown, however, has recently recruited volunteers for a study of people 40 to 65 who have been together for many years. She'll put them in fMRIs to see where love resides after the urgency fades. "It's unknown, the extent to which these original brain motivations are still active," she says. "Or whether companionate love has turned more cortical, more conscious thinking, more evaluative." Her first volunteers had their brains scanned this month. The free fall of love's first rush can happen at any age, whether people are 20 or 70, says Elaine Hatfield, psychology professor at the University of Hawaii and relationship researcher. What differs is that the older people get, the more memories they harbor of joy and trust, rejection and disappointment. And as people learn from experience, the front brain, with its logic and reason, probably gets a greater say. "When you are young, passion and hope are so strong that's it's almost impossible to stop loving someone," Hatfield says. "After you've been kicked around by life, however, you start to have a dual response to handsome con men: 'Wow!' and 'Arrrrrrgh!' "It takes not will power but painful experience to make us wise." Somehow, it all comes together, for better or for worse, the sum total of what's found in the mating dance of the ancient reptilian brain, the passion of the limbic brain and the logic of the neocortex. Oh, what a ride.

You'd give your life to make their lives easier.

Sometimes great, sometimes like crap. Such is the nature of love and human interaction

Like the most amazing thing in the world, you feel like the wind is blowing in your face and skies have cleared up for you. At the same time, you feel like you can't breathe and you can't think and your shoes are made of led and you are trying to move but your body has stopped responding to your commands. Yo feel fear, entrapment, vertigo, dizziness, nausea. It is the most wonderful, yet horrifying sensation ever, and it doesn't get any better after the initial blow. It either becomes mutual and grows, or it is non-reciprocal and you feel like you will die any minute, yet you can't walk away from it. I recommend it!! :)

It's like swimming in an ocean of joy - It's a feeling of warmth & security that melts your entire body and turns off the rational part of your mind.

It makes you so vulnerable and opens you up to the greatest joy and the greatest pain. Your life is no longer your own because it allows someone to get inside you and touch your soul and control your emotions and take your heart hostage. It makes you want to be your best and to give the best of you to that person. It allows you to love someone more than yourself and to put them first and foremost. It makes you do the craziest things - things you would not normally do. It makes you lose all sense of reasoning or sensibility. It is a madness that you cannot escape even if you wanted to. It feels like HOME to really love someone.

True love is never erratic, quixotic or mercurial. It is calm, peaceful and positive. It puts the other person first in all things. Self is no longer the focus. True love is uplifting, constant and needs nothing from the beloved..nothing at all. True love does not confine or hold too tight. It is happy for the success of the beloved and is always supportive even if that means that the beloved one has to go away. That is true love to me. Perhaps it is the difference between "falling in love" and simply "loving". "Falling in love" means you are out of control. "Loving" means you are in control of yourself. :) Happy Friday! :)

Mythical.

Nirvana. I had it once but that was a long time ago & she is gone. ):

It feels like that one place you feel you belong more than any other.

I daydream all day long and i don't have a care in the world

It feels like when you have 144lbs of marijuana in a fake propane tank and you go across the international bridge to get back into the USA

Exciting and a little confusing!

Weak knees and butterflies ...every time you see them...for as long as you are together. Exciting!

Like the end of life as I have always known it.<3

+Spiritual Oneness +Total Oneness +Discovery of Love between two people, I did not know existed. +Sweetness and a desire for giving/receiving and to protect on a greater level than ever experienced. +Found a missing part of me I didn't know was missing. +Fills me up inside with good things. +Life +Thrilling/Exciting +Fulfilling +Comforting +Completion +Annoying as heck sometimes. lol +Destiny

This is th real answer from a person thats in love with a great guy and this answer is real its not poetic its understandible Love is when you wake up in the morning and you feel like ur waitin for something good to happen and something today ur going to do,its baseicly what your looking forward to and then you realize that its ur boyfriend and ur still happy. When ur so start struck u start listening to great love songs that are about love and nothing can get in the way of ur love and you start plannin dates that you want to happen THAT IS LOVE

Like I'm Kennedy and I survived.

Like anew day, when you can do anything!