Just askin'

[withcats]

Tell me about love, as you see it.

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[lucyskydiamonds]

It's made me a bitter old woman at 22.

ElectroMotiveForce.

[popplagid]

How do you know you're in love, you just know. Know one can tell you. You feel it. The thought of the person tugs on your heartstrings.The sight of them is such a thing of beauty to you that it makes you want to hold them forever. Nothing else matters when you see them. Everything is subconscious. The future seems not only possible but relatively easy. They are at the fore of your thoughts when you wake up and as you lay down to sleep. They get you through your day at work. They make you smile. You would do anything for this person. Love is not insipid or ridiculous. It's probably the strongest emotion we have.

[mmme]

What we call 'love' doesn't really exist. If we idealize this feeling it means we don't really understand it or just try to deceive ourselves. If you get to the core of it though, you have plenty of other things - compassion, the need to please the other person (and yourself), the need to be with that person, the need to whatever. None of that is 'love' as the concept is usually grasped. This 'need' defines 'love' and makes it a very selfish feeling. Then there's infatuation (which is mistaken for love quite often) - but that doesn't really last very long. All that we are left in the end is a habit (also mistaken for love). There's no 'love'.

Coast to Coast.

[popplagid]

I care to disagree.

its the want not the need

[evenatari]

that about sums it up for me. if one feels they "need" someone its not so much love and its rather unhealthy. to me, love is unconditional and it means that "sure, i could live breath and function without you in my life, but i dont want to".

[waterdance]

It's elusive in nature.