Love..

It's an emotion we evolved because it facilitates the survival of offspring.

 

Love is wanting another person's happiness to depend on your own.

 

thats probably the most realistic definition right there

the human race probably wouldn't have lasted long if all the men took off and didn't provide for their pregnant others while they were out of commission for 9 months in the very brutal environment that humans use to have to endure

 

interesting..care to explain a little?

 

I like this. :]

 

Nahhh I totally dont believe this, sorry tay. Love is usually never the reason for a break up with someone. Sometimes the love shared between two people can be so incredibly intense that it is really damaging to both parties, in which case the seperation has nothing to with lack of love but realization that you both arn't really doing what's most healthy. You can reach shared intimacy, commitment and passion, but these things alone certainly do not hold together a relationship.

 

And to answer the original question, I think love is definitely just a chemical reaction that has been created to keep our genes and species progressing forward, buttttt I still love love and love lovin', soooo I'm ok with ignore chemical reactions and just pretending it's all magically and amazing and destiny

But the whole soul mate things, I think there is such a thing, and I think that souls recycle back to earth in groups and that why there's certain people in your life that you just meet and instantly feel comfortable, and you just feel like you know them from somewhere but just can't put a finger on it. But these arn't soulmates in the traditional sense, I think there are probably a good handful of people that will come into your life that really fill your soul up with love and make you truly happy, but these people are not lovers, they can be, but they can also be family, friends, teachers, etc.

 

Love is the cause of existence. But one has to unlearn what they believe in order to see this unfold in its most expressive potential. When one has concepts of worth, value, good, bad, fair and not fair, one cant see it for what it is.
There is selfish attachment, and then there is selfless compassion. They are entirely different states of being, and are not emotions, love is not an emotion, it is the cause of all emotions.

 

love is unexplainable and unprovable, requiring a leap in faith.

 

Interesting. Now that I think about it, love may not really fit the definition of an "emotion" which is a psychological and physiological response to a stimulus. There are probably several emotions that invoked when one is in love, but to say that love is those emotions is to beg the question. Honestly can't say I agree with you about love being the cause of existence, unless it's a semantic matter and you're operating under a very broad definition of love. Seems to me love is inherently value laden as we humans know it.

 

i see how it is. out to get me an all

 

this thread makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. oh no! its a chemical response to the survival of an attraction to hipforums!

but it does make me happy.

 

me too. i found the very thin surface of love a few days ago, even that is a remarkable experience. I've been unbelievably happy before, and that emotion alone has no power over Love. I need to find my true state before finding another, but having a partner make's the journey that much fulfilling.

I just wanted to see hipforums views on love.
and i must say i'm glad i did.

 

I know what it is, but I just can't put it into words really. It's something really big though

 

It's an abstract concept, is love forever? It should be, but isn't because nothing lasts forever. Can you fall in and out of love? Perhaps, but it may not be 'love' it may be lust. I think love is the equal appreciateion of both a partners personality and body, encompassing all of who he or she is instead of just one aspect. All or nothing. That is 'love'

I've only been in love with someone once but i don't feel it was equally reciprocated and thus i don't think it was 'true' love.

Though love is subjective, so who is to say what is true and false, like i say it's an abstract concept and therefore cna't be independantly and objectively defined. One can't go out in the world and bring back some 'love' or point to it in nature. For one persons love is someones lust etc.

 

It's what keeps a person from strangling their offspring.

 

love is the best high ever felt, but the worst burn out too.

 

without love, where would you be now?

 

you'll know it when you have it, chad. fuck it, I have love, so I'm elaborating.

love is when you're happy to do her a favor because she has done much more for you.
love is when you realize you haven't been unhappy in months because your with the perfect person.
love is when you wake up next to her every morning, realizing how lucky you are to be graced by an angel.
love is when you think that you don't need your friends anymore, because not only she is your lover, she is your bestfriend.
love is when you feel like proclaiming your love, at the top of your lungs, when she sets your soul on fire with passion.
love is when you look into a girls eyes and you can see your future in them.

 

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