Anthem
Active Member
I don't think love requires work, though a relationship does.
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What is Love ?
- Thread starter LiveByFaithNotSight
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Elliott5779
Member
Most relationships that fall apart today are examples.
Elliott5779
Member
Because in reality a person who gives very little doesn't truely love the other. it a very limited love that only lasts as long as everyone is happy.
Elliott5779
Member
Like parents supporting and giving their children everything they need to live in the world.
Elliott5779
Member
i would say both are true. There are people who fall out of love. These people are the ones who need to work on it.
LiveByFaithNotSight
The Art Of Conversing
because people dont know what real love is? dont let ppl actions sway you from what love actually is.
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
Love(or more accurately, affection) is an emotion. Emotions are caused by chemicals in the brain.
Anthem
Active Member
Chemicals don't work alone.
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
Correct, they work with other chemicals.
Anthem
Active Member
I mean something causes them to do what they do and scientists do not understand excatly what. Nor do they know how love is born.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
I've never experienced love in the emotional psychological sense until I met my friend of 13 years so far. I met her on a dating site in about early 2000 when they were popular (and only a few ways us LGBT isolated people) can really date without jumping hoops.
Anyway, we met. We didn't click cause she wanted children etc and I did not. But I did found that love with a mature person can come in many forms. When you trust someone to give them your body and mind, that trust is love. When you enjoy being around that person's company that comfort feeling is love. When you generally and intimately care about that person's wellbeing, that care is love. When you can disagree without leaving, that maturity is love.
She is dating now. Love is supporting your friends even if you are a bit jeleous (don't tell, haha). It's not more a abstract feeling but a literal action and relationship. Last month I was short some money for the last week of the month to where I barely had food. I got paid in two days then before my mother helped me out. My friend gave me a couple dollars or so until payday. I nearly cried if not did.
It wasn't more the money itself but the act and care of giving me something I didn't even ask for. I have seizures and every time I needed to go to the hospital, she was there.
Love is very multifaceted. You can't find it in a book. You can't find it on a sofa. It's a literal relationship with life and self and people that it uplifts your wellbeing. I don't use the term love because it's so misused. But, in that sense love is gratitude.
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
This 'something' doesn't exist. Love isn't 'born' either.
Love Is a Chemical Reaction, Scientists Find
Anthem
Active Member
Elliott5779
Member
That is what i'm trying to say more or less. Love is a recognition that the other person is actually a part of me and i should give as much as i could to the relationship to help keep it alive. In the beginning it's nice but eventually you have to work hard to keep it and build it to make it stronger.
Audie
Veteran Member
Love is a rose, but you better not pick it
Love is emotion. Emotions can be observed on a functional MRI, the strength of emotions give different results, so it seems love can be, at least, crudely measured
What causes the chemicals that you experience as an emotion to switch on? Does that just happen on their own, and we're just along for the ride, such as laughing for no reason? "Sorry, that was just my chemicals?"
Love is the substrate of all existence. Love is an attitude towards life originating in your very existence. It exists even in a state of emotional sadness, or even anger. It is beyond and before emotions. It is the condition of our being, regardless of states of emotions. Yes, I have experienced that, and can recognize the difference between that and emotional states. It is radically of a different order than emotional states.
WalterTrull
Godfella
We are one. When we glimpse that, we call the emotion, love.
Woberts
The Perfumed Seneschal
The environment, as well as your thoughts.
I think there's a disorder that causes something like that to happen. Something about laughing or crying at inopportune times.