What is Love?
caco_ethes
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Baby,
just hear me out.
What is it, honestly? How do you know when this is what you’re experiencing? People sometimes say “I really really like him/her but I don’t love him/her”. This graduates to “I love him/her but I’m not in love with him/her”
What even are these feelings?
How do you know?
How do you know?
A for real discussion but gifs are also encouraged.
just hear me out.
What is it, honestly? How do you know when this is what you’re experiencing? People sometimes say “I really really like him/her but I don’t love him/her”. This graduates to “I love him/her but I’m not in love with him/her”
What even are these feelings?
How do you know?
How do you know?
A for real discussion but gifs are also encouraged.
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »Baby don’t hurt me
That was exactly what I was thinking...5 -
Don’t hurt me4
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »Baby don’t hurt meTavistockToad wrote: »SabotageinStilettos wrote: »Baby don’t hurt me
That was exactly what I was thinking...
@denny_mac isn’t the only one who can do ear worms, I just pick better ones0 -
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Something I'm afraid to do again.5
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DeadliftsAndSprinkles wrote: »I can only speak from my experience but I knew I was in love in a few ways:
1. I was unconsciously doing things for him that I hadn't before - like when stopping for groceries I'd buy something for him just because I knew he'd like it, or when I'd get up to get myself a drink I'd get one for him too.
2. I'd look forward to coming home just to see him. Even if we had no plans beyond sitting in front of the tv all night, I wanted to come home just to spend that time with him.
3. When thinking about the future he was always a part of what I envisioned.
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There are different kinds of love.
Love for a close friend. Love for a pet. Love for a parent or sibling. Love for your child. Love for a romantic partner/spouse. Love for a place.
How do I know I love someone instead of just liking them? Kind of hard to put into words.
I think it involves many things like deep respect, joy in their company, wanting to give, support or proect them, feeling you can be open and vulnerable with them, being comfortable together, going through many shared experiences, hurting when they hurt, being happy when they are happy, feeling like you are a better/more complete person with them, knowing the person beyond their public face. I think when you love someone it is a unique relationship in your life that you would not mistake. The person can not be replaced by another.
I think I knew my dh was special to me when I felt almost immediately that I could talk to him about anything. I felt incredibly right with him. That was pretty unusual for me.
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MeeseeksAndDestroy wrote: »Love is a homeless guy searching for treasure in the middle of the rain and finding a bag of gold coins and then slowly finding out they're all filled with chocolate and even though he's heart broken he can't complain cause he was hungry in the first place
Yeah but they’ll melt in the rain unless they’re covered with a candy shell but since they were wrapped in gold foil that’s unlikely so he was basically screwed all along and nothing changed except he foolishly got his hopes up and that’s why love sucks yo4 -
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Love is a cat that paws at your face at 2am for no reason other than love, then chokes you out by curling up into your neck ... But you love them so much you're willing to forego oxygen.
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Love is steak and eggs, and if that's not love then I don't know what is... Maybe bacon and eggs1
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Motorsheen wrote: »
Yeah, but I said I was kidding. About carrying if there's a safe word. Or not.
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SabotageinStilettos wrote: »Baby don’t hurt me
Love hurts.... I know :-(CoffeeAndContour wrote: »You just know
I agree with this! I think you do just know. It’s a different kind of feeling. It’s something that you can’t really put into words.0 -
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I don’t know anymore. I’ve experienced a few things that I thought were love and I still think they were but ultimately I’m thinking it’s hormones and then a decision to stay????? That’s as far as romantic love goes. I’m not confused about loving a pet, family, friends.3
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I dont know. I still dont feel like I have ever really "been in love". I am not trying to sound sad or anything. I care alot about my husband and definitely wouldn't give him up lightly, but I just have never felt that whole "i cant live without you" type feeling that maybe love is supposed to be. Or not. Shrug. I never wanted to feel that way either so maybe that is the problem.7
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laprimaJenny wrote: »4legsRbetterthan2 wrote: »I dont know. I still dont feel like I have ever really "been in love". I am not trying to sound sad or anything. I care alot about my husband and definitely wouldn't give him up lightly, but I just have never felt that whole "i cant live without you" type feeling that maybe love is supposed to be. Or not. Shrug. I never wanted to feel that way either so maybe that is the problem.
Possibly, but a lot of the times people don’t appreciate what they have until they loose it. I’m not saying that, that’s your situation. I’m just stating that generally speaking sometimes we don’t realize how important a person is, until they are gone and we’re left with that void. It’s in that moment we come to terms with our choices.
Thats a good point. Im not willing tp experiment to find out right now (hummmmm, maybe I am more needy that I want to admit?)1 -
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Love fills you, makes you forget about all else, the good, the bad. You’ll do anything for it if you have it. Love makes you travel far away to experience it. You’ll take small breaks to enjoy it, take it in. You’ll breath it in and it’s scent will cause all of the stress to leave you. Love causes pain, excruciating pain. I takes your breath away...causing your chest to hurt. It causes fear, some of the greatest fear you’ll ever experience.
My children have taught me that love can be selfish. The loves of/in my life have taught me that love is selfish, painful, exciting and heartbreaking.4 -
BrokenFather wrote: »Love fills you, makes you forget about all else, the good, the bad. You’ll do anything for it if you have it. Love makes you travel far away to experience it. You’ll take small breaks to enjoy it, take it in. You’ll breath it in and it’s scent will cause all of the stress to leave you. Love causes pain, excruciating pain. I takes your breath away...causing your chest to hurt. It causes fear, some of the greatest fear you’ll ever experience.
My children have taught me that love can be selfish. The loves of/in my life have taught me that love is selfish, painful, exciting and heartbreaking.
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