I'm really not sure yet, but I believe that I was in love, once.

I think that is exactly what love is. Nothing else.

I'm absolutely sure..it is real.

Love is real because it does happen. And it's chemical. If you mean, is it an illusion and based on things random, I don't think so. I think there is a deep reason for it that humans can't quite comprehend fully yet.

All this IS love: ....."Feelings or chemical reactions or hormones or pheremones"

love is real otherwise what would all those poets and songwriters write about? they'd be out of business - and Valentines Day - i dont even want to think about it

Well, technically everything is chemical reactions and hormones among other things (electrical signals in the brain and all that). That doesn't make it any less wonderful or miraculous. Or any less real. (If you're asking whether love as portrayed in the movies or on greeting cards is real, that's a whole other thing.)

Anything that has a chemical basis is real. Our feelings are induced by body chemistry. Pheremones are chemicals and hormones are chemical messengers. Love *is* chemistry. And real.

love is real. once in love all the chemical reactions,hormones,pheremones start taking place and create all types of feelings for us. that is when love goes out of the window and reality sets in.

Nope. No chance at all. It is very real in my life. Ask anyone that has truly been in love, (not "puppy love" or a crush), real love and I assure you they will tell you love is as real as sunshine.

When I was a kid and my parents got divorced, I thought that it was the end of love for me; that I wouldn't have a happy marriage, a life-long love; that it didn't exist anymore. As I grew up I learned (mostly from experience) that love must be more than just movie magic; that it happens to real people; that the bubbling in your stomach when you fall in love isn't gas. Movie magic doesn't keep babies alive in the hospital nursery, love does; that's why someone is employed simply to rock and hug them. Gas certainly doesn't bring a family together when times get hard; love does. It is real, and we feel it and share it through those chemicals and hormones. With our words.

whether it's feelings or chemical or hormones or pheremones it still exists, it still effects us and it's still real. whatever name we put on it doesn't matter.

I Loved a girl,and she said she would love me forever, and forever no matter what,,last night i found out she was cheating on me,,if you ask me, Love is the biggest overused and misused word ever. What we think is love is just natures way of tricking us to copulate. Is love real? maybe paternal love yes,brotherly love,,,but not couple love,,that shit is fake as hell

Well, feelings, chemical reactions, hormones and pheremones ARE real. But I gather what you mean is, is what we CALL "love" really what we IMAGINE/THINK love to be, at which point I'm sure you see the problem: you've either got a circular tautology or an impenitrable mystery. But, as I see it, the question is flawed in that it begins with a false premise: that love is a noun. I dare say most people these days make the same mistake: what they call love IS just affection, desire, and/or mating, nesting & parental instinct (which also prompts us to protect anything significantly smaller, younger, weaker, and cuter than ourselves) or just the totally ephemeral euphoria we call "being in love". But for myself - and all the moral philsophers, the Christian and Jewish divines, and virtually all the Ancients - love is really a verb. Love is compassion-in-action, the actual sacrificing of yourself for the benefit of your beloved. That may arise out of or be prompted by feelings of affection and/or desire, or natural instinct, but it can have other origins, motives, and trajectories as well. In this sense, love isn't a feeling, but a choice. Even more than that, it's a decision. And yes, it is most certainly real -- in fact there's probably nothing more terrifyingly real, at least that you'll ever experience directly, because real love for others is always necessarily death to self.

love is just a trick, conning us into procreating. it fades.

ONLY AN OPINION--->I personally think that it is some type of pheremone that each of us is drawn to. NO IM NOT A SCIENTIST but it has to be something. But the trick is it has to go both ways. I feel that I am VERY attractive and about 5 years ago I was introduced to a guy that I was immediately drawn to (but not in the least good looking). After we hooked up everybody told me how odd of a couple we were but I knew I was in love. Later down the road I became A mommy and was thrilled. Him...not so much. He started emotionally abusing me and my son. I tried to change desperately to meet his NEEDS. But nothing worked. He has been half way across the country for over a year now and I still want him so bad. I have found others that treat me great (and very good looking) but my mind always drifts back. I now think that this could explain a lot of the abusive relationships that I see on TV (the ones you watch and think that the girl/guy is SO stupid for staying). The person alwasy claims they are still around because they love them. they never bring up "because he's rich" "because he is so damn sexy" or any thing. it always gets blamed on love. Now I am that person who believes this SORRY SO LONG!!!

Love is a lie. I'm sorry for unleashing this onto the unfortunate few who read this, but I think I worked it out as logically as I can. You are not devine. You are not a being created to love. You are a collection of cells, some of which have developed into a brain. And that brain is chemical...physical. If I inject a substance you will think differently. If I poke it, you will think differently. Love is a term attached to a rush of chemicals. Because you may not believe lust or sex is involved does not make it any less of chemical reaction. The shere ficklness of it....If you can say you love someone one day, and then when they become fat and ugly not be in love with them....the what is love? If I can recreate love by injecting a chemical into your arm than love is nothing but a term.......and love is no better than an orgasm. Physical and fleeting. A distraction from the simple horrible truth that each one of us are cells that have accidentally become self aware. I'm horrible at explaining things but these truths, when put together don't add up. It feels like I've just realized God doesn't exist all over again. Work it out for yourself. Seriously ask yourself, would I love this person, if they were a burn victim, if they went insane. And be honest to yourself.....Actually even ask yourself if you would love this person if someone better came along, who was just as interested in you. The purity of love is lost, and all you are left with is a lust....or if you have a noble spirit some sort of deep feeling that you need them....But as soon as you realize it's fleeting, and chemical, and fickle it's like the last piece of hope you had left dissolves out from under you. What's left?

No. I believe that love is very real. I also believe that there are people who mistake infatuation for love.

i think that love is real..most people just settle for hormonal reactions to others and call it love

chemical reactions, hormones, pheromones? I think that's exactly what it is. However; I don't think that means love isn't real, per se, it's just a lot less magical than some of us want to think.

Everything about us is chemical reactions, hormones, pheromones. This would mean that nothing is real.

In "my opinion" I do not think that what exists between a male and a female is love. I believe that it is a mixture of sexual attraction, emotional, and physical attachment; facilitated by chemical and electrical signals in the brain that evolved over millions of years so that we would select an attractive mate (while very small variances of what defines attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder, the majority is universal and cross culturally significant, signifying health, fertility, the ability to provide viable offspring) ex: in females facial symmetry, small hip to waist ratio of .7 opptimal, youthfulness, pliable skin, full lips and large eyes. So I believe it all comes down to an instinctual drive to mate, and it would seem that monogamy is common because it is somehow advantangeous to the survival of the species, and therefore didn't die out. I am a scientist, but again these are just my own opinions

Love IS real. In fact love is all there IS. Man obscures love with illusions.

No,it's real.Nuff said:)

Yes you explained it perfectly.

I think everyone's answer to this would depend on their current or former relationships. So, everyone is biased!

It is real.because god LOVED us so much he died on the cross for us..and like he keeps us save because he loves us and we keep people safe because we love everyone...so my answer is no it is real

it could just be chemical reaction and such ur right, but if it feels good it feels good, and nothing feels better, and worse sometimes, then love.

Actually, it's been shown that those things are in fact part of the reason why you love someone. Why do you think so many people get addicted to it?

nah.. maybe chemicals help! haha but i know what i feel and if you take away the pheremones, I'll still be as in love as I am.

Love is real. just as real as anything else, anyway. if you took anyway all the chemical reactions, nothing would be real. everything you and I (if we really are "real" at all.) perseive to be real is just signals being sent to your brain. (if that's even "real") So to answer your question, yes, I do think that sometimes. But then I remember how I felt the last time I saw him and I remember why I still have faith in it. =]

I'm glad this question was revived. It gives me a chance to point out that "feelings or chemical reaction, ....." are just as "real" as they can be. That is as real as it gets!

A lot of the times yes I do. In truth that is what love is plus other stuff. But mainly that. Chemical reactions and such I mean. I believe in this. Though I know it is not all hormones and whatnot.

I'm pretty positive that's what it is, doesn't make love any less real. I don't see why love needs to have some kind of mystical unexplainable aspect for it to be real.

Even if our emotional feelings are chemical reactions that occur in our bodies; that is still real. Why do we have to dissect it? It takes the magic out of it.

depends because alot of girls now are just sluts that want you to have sex with them and theres others that are 100% truthful and that would never cheat on you or disrespect you. you just gotta go with what u feel most of the time..

No... to argue that "love" is just the universe's way of preserving the species is to argue something for which there is not a shred of evidence. When a mother gives her life for her child - yeah, I could see that. The elder dying to give the younger a chance to keep the bloodline going. But what about those times when children give their lives for their parents? Or what about those times when people fall head-over-heels for people incapable of procreating? Men who fall for women incapable of having sex at all? This isn't attachment psychology. This isn't your hormones freaking out. When your life is rendered forfeit, when you would sacrifice a trainload of people for one person, when your adoration causes you to put your very heart on the line... biochemistry loses all its flavor. There is love, friend... and love is what it's all about. (I don't care WHAT the hokey pokey says.)

In a way love is like a drug. The more you get the more you need.

how is it being chemical reactions not real? if you are atheist then everything we do is nothing more than neurochemical reactions. if you are religious then there is more to our existance but that does not negate the fact that much of us is still neuro chemical reactions.

curious how you ask this... it implies you believe it to be something else... what do you think love is that "there is a chance" that it isn't?

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Love is fake. Now days people are always claiming that they feel into love within a few months of meeting the person. I believe that is deep infatuation and maybe even obsession. The media and Hollywood make love seems like such a common thing and that the first boy that makes you feel special is your soul mate. "Happily ever after" and "prince charming" are lies. The idea of love only complicates things. I know so many people who have claimed to be in love, then claim to fall out of love. Well, based on the defination of love, love is supposed to be everlasting so obviously what those people had was not love.

I think it's more likely that love is the ONLY thing that's real, but we allow anything and everything to block our awareness/experience of it. *I apologize if this is a duplicate answer.

I agree with the guy who said he believes in paternal love and brotherly love. I don't really think that couple love is anything but emotions based on good sex and trust which is fine and good because no one wants to be alone. As far as couple love goes I think it is just a word that is based on an agreement of trust that they won't fuck anyone else. Once there is no trust left, than that word is meaningless if there was ever trust in the first place. Personally I don't trust any hoe. Maybe some day I'll find someone who I can trust like 80%. But I don't think I will ever trust anyone 100%. Humans are too imperfect to completly trust.

Questioning love shows your experience, observation and insight has brought you to the realization that something is missing in the word love. Yes there is a fuller much more compleate view of our reality. Love dosent accuratley represent reality because its not reality! The actuality and truth of what is happening, is dilleberatly kept from you to disempower you and to to empower all that is keeping you from it. Love is a diversion and illusion that effectivly high jacks the truth and uses it agaist you. Wether you see the big picture of our plain of existance or and are empowered or wether you doun't and are dissempowered. Reality is not changed. Nearly every story you ever heard told you that good allways wins in the end and that love conqures all right? Yet this is a far cry from what is actually going on. You are about do discover that love is actually a dangerous lie and deception set up to keep you from seeing the big picture. And when beleived it camoflages the reason and meaning of your needs and attraction. It highjacks your feelings which can overide reason. We are innidated with laguage,envirement, education and media that also blatenly assist in setting up and reenforcing the illusion. Most people can't handle this! But since your allready on your way I will assure you the truth is much better! Who ever wants to understand more can reach me via email I would be glad to help. Email me at legrandpeeples@gmail.com

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Yes, there was and it used to be, but now, there is no love exists anymore, it's jsut a fake and just a sex feelings to the new couples.

I think people believe in love becasue they want to, because they need to. It's not real. people are infatuated with how they make themselves feel..therefore "love" is only a selfish thing

Three years ago, I might have agreed with you on that. Now, I will vehemently disagree. : )

Maybe it is just brain juice, but for what it does, in a way, that makes it real.

it is a chemical reaction that lasts approximately 2 years.

I guess that could be chemicals and hormones but does that make love any less real?

i wonder about this myself. but feelings *are* chemical reactions. how a set of chemical reactions came to be called "love" i dont know.