Love means......
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I hope this isn't too repetitive of all the other love threads on here but it's something that's been on my mind lately. You can do funny and make me laugh because everybody needs laughter. Or you can do serious to give us something to chew on. At this point in my life, I'm not sure about love anymore. Does love last forever? Is it really kind? Forgiving? Merely strong infatuation? Such a simple 4 letter word that means completely different things to each of us.
So, if you think you got a handle on this love thing(or even if you don't) I'd love to see peoples' input.
So, if you think you got a handle on this love thing(or even if you don't) I'd love to see peoples' input.
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I think love is everything. Like, too many different kinds to even put a name to.
I've spent a lot of time in my mind trying to define love. Try to figure out the difference between 'real love' and infatuation but I think, it's all the same. Just feels different. Great in thier own ways. Even if you don't know someone on a deep level, I don't think that cheepens it.
Love for your freinds, I don't even love them all the same. Love for your lovers, never loved them the same. Love for your family, don't love them the same either. It never feels the same.
Some is an intense appreciation. Other's a extreme fondness. Warm 🥰. Some ache. Some stop you in your tracks. Some feel like you've known them before. Like you'll always gravitate back.
🤷🏻♀️
As far as romantic love, I'm unsure if it's forever or if it gets back to the intensity of the first few loves. I've never been in love again like I was at 18 and then at 22. It is what it is. Sometimes I'm torn up about it but today I'm open to the idea of love being everywhere in smaller doses. Maybe that all engulfing, wrapped up in one person love isn't the only way.4 -
It’s a range of emotions
It’s not one dimensional
Some days you love a person dearly
Other days they piss you off and you don’t
But what matters is the standard deviation and mean average of a 90 day window.
If you end up more in resentment, there is no love4 -
Shared selflessness8
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Shared selflessness
We have a winner!
I'm not a big fan or "what does it mean to you" ? Or to each their own... Words have meaning and that is independent of what you think they mean. Words stand on their own.
Love in the English language encompasses several aspects. Greek has 4 words that have been expressed as love in the English language.
Agape Charity
unconditional, selfless, commitment and dutiful love
Philia Friendship,
like agape but includes a deeper connection, fondness, emotional intimacy, Philadelphia - brotherly love
Storge Natural Affection,
kinship or family ties. A woman's natural feeling for her child
Eros Sexual attraction,
romance, physical intimacy1 -
Love is so much!!! There are different kinds of love!! My love for my husband is an addiction!! I can't get enough and yet sometimes I don't want anymore at all!! The love with my husband is a hard love. Comes with joy and pain!! Without forgiveness this love would die. It's fertilizer to love!! Now the love I feel for my kids....that's a completely different thing. Nothing breaks it! Nothing stops it! Nothing takes it away! I'd kill for that love!! Even in the hottest anger that love cools and calms it all!!! Then there is the love for everyone else. It's breakable. Friends and family neighbors and strangers. They earn that love and can lose it at anytime!!3
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(Exits room)8 -
sharing my snacks. Especially if they're pre-tracked.3
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Who says love says kids
Says always and says divorceCurious to see who recognizes this.0 -
Peeing with the door open.4
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stevehenderson776 wrote: »Peeing with the door open.
I've never loved anybody that much
Love is a verb, not a noun. It's not what you feel, it's what you do.5 -
Love means everything. Without love, we have no purpose. But with love, we have the potential to heal all pain and suffering in the world. Never give up on the idea of love because love will never give up on the idea of finding its way to you. My yoga instructor once ended a class by saying the only thing that matters in this life is how much we loved. That little nugget of wisdom alone was worth the $99 monthly membership.5
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Plato remarks in the Symposium:
"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature"
"Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole"
To me, this strikes true...perhaps love is a process and an awareness: despite all challenges you will ever endure, you will do so together. The inexorable realization that you are each other's destiny.
There is a song I like which hints at this with its lyrics. You will become each other's life and live it to your death.
https://youtu.be/F9CUO8lfNjI
She says, "Wake up, it's no use pretending"
I'll keep stealing, breathing her
Birds are leaving over autumn's ending
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes around the yard.
She says, "If I leave before you, darling
Don't you waste me in the ground"
I lay smiling like our sleeping children
One of us will die inside these arms
Eyes wide open, naked as we came
One will spread our ashes around the yard"
Having a love which becomes torn apart is an existential cruelty, where you mourn your life that no longer exists, and another person who is still alive.1 -
Love means growing old with your soulmate.2
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All I know is what love is not supposed to be. So love means the opposite of that.6
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Has reeny found true love yet?1
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What is love? I've asked myself that question many times in my life with lots of trial and error. I've always thought love looked or felt a certain way. We look at others who are married, people who look like they have the perfect family and we think it's supposed to be like that. The day I lost my health I realized what love was. Everyone is different and have their own way of loving others and showing it. Love is the little things and how you make others feel and you can't truely love until you really love yourself.6
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I have a difficult time thinking my love goes so far as to do some of the things my sister has been going through for her dh. Sure, I care. But how far can love carry a person? If you're not willing to go through 'sickness and in health' is it love?
I guess that's what had me wondering in the first place.
Devotion, commitment, dedication, selflessness, complete acceptance, and true love.
*sigh* just don't know if I have what it takes some days.
Loving yourself is certainly a big part of the picture and TBH I haven't made it that far either.4 -
woollenmonarch wrote: »Has reeny found true love yet?
No input for yourself?1
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