Psychology What is love?

I've heard it described as "friendship set on fire" and "when two people decide to stalk each other." Well, I don't really like either of these descriptions. I'd say its like a mix between an insane anxiousness abnd happiness.

 

To me love is giving yourself completely to another. Your souls merge and become one. You are in a sweet bliss.

Another way I would describe love is hooked onto Cupids arrow. In a single shot you are indulged in a single delight with another.

To figure our love is easy. You can take a flower and do that whole he/she loves me, loves me not thing. Works for me.

 

True dat.

 

Love is ............. In my way.
I don't know what it is myself really exept what I said above

 

After thinking about this for an extremly long time I think I finally have an answer.
Love is when all you want to do is be with somebody for the rest of eternity. If you are in love and I mean really in deep passionate love with no borders, then love will give you the courage to be yourself and to stand up on your own two feet and open the door to your soul and let your faith take root. (I know thats sappy but its true) Love is blind and it'll take over your mind. Everything about the person you love will become and obbsesion, until all you want to do is be with them.

Now some people say that nobody can love, they can only screw...well to them I say you're wrong, if that was true then all that would happen would be a lot of horny people running around just having mindless sex. Love is what makes you respect somebody and not hurt them.

 

Websters says love is 1 a (1) : strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties <maternal love for a child> (2) : attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3) : affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests <love for his old schoolmates> b : an assurance of love <give her my love>

 

That kinda is what happens in genral.

 

...0.o ah amor

well love to me is ah... well...i haven't experienced it before but love is a feeling that comes in the most unexpected way. It can creep up behind anyone and to the ones that say " love? bah, it will never happen to me!" or something like that, you are going to eat those words some day because yes, it can happen to you. Anyway in my philosophy love can have different meanings but there is always a thin line between fierce love and hate so be carefulol, love can make you do dumb things that can ruin your life, but it can also be sweet and the best thing that can happen to you.*stare* oh damn sorry this thing is too long...^^! i some times rant

 

Love is when the person of your affection is always in your head running through your mind. Love is when you can't stand to be away from the person of your affection, love is the feeling you get whenever the person of your affection walks into the room.

Unfortunately, most people don't realize they are in love until they lose the person they love...love is a coward, it never tells you that it's there, until you can't get it back.

Ah, alas, love is pure, but it can be the most lethal blow you'll ever face if you let love slip away...

 

Phycologist say love is not an actual feeling by itself like happiness or anger. It is an affectionate attatchment to someone that is not felt but is in the way you act towards someone.

 

A few months later and a few changes in life. I think love is actually compromise. In order to love you need to take the good with the bad. You should also see the small things that count. Some people think it is hard in saying I love you but they show it in other ways.

 

I knew there was a thread on this somewhere, might as well revive it. A lot of the stuff I say will come from my psych textbook which was put together by Carole Wade et al. in 2004.. using the answers of professionals might be better than me spouting something from my own mind, which is filled with pop culture anyways.

According to Sternberg's triarchic theory of love, there's three parts to love:
Passion: those crazy feelings that make you wanna just... not finishing that definition.
Intimacy: feeling free to share your deepest secrets and be overall open with your emotions with your partner.
Commitment: having the need to be near and loyal to your partner.

These three parts can be combined to make different types of love..
Romantic love: passion and intimacy, without commitment
Companionate love: commitment and intimacy, without passion
Empty love: commitment, without passion or intimacy
Infatuation: passion alone

Intimacy doesn't just happen out of nowhere, it develops over time through trust. At the beginning of the relationship passion is the strongest and with time too it starts to subside, while intimacy increases... If a person thinks that love is defined just by passion, then when passion fades away they'll think the relationship is over - and will be dissapointed time and time again.

An argument given by Robert Solomon (1994) is that "we conceive of love falsely... We expect an explosion at the beginning powerful enough to fuel love through all of its ups and downs instead of viewing love as a process over which we have control, a process that tends to increase with time rather than wane."

And that's just scratching the surface..

 

it's zero, in tennis. i don't know how that happened :dizzy:

 

Excerpt from one of (in my opinion) the best fanfictions in existence:

It basically goes without saying that I'm in full agreement with this quote.

 

"Love is nothing but a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species." Some poeple believe this, and some don't. Love just happens, it's pretty hard to explain.

 

Well, here's an interesting website which i agree with.

The three forms of love: Philos, Eros, Agape

http://dreamlove.nomadlife.org/2005/05/eros-philos-or-agape.aspx

 

There r a couple of answers what i think love is :
A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person,
such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
Sexual passion.
Sexual intercourse.
A love affair.
A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.

 

Well...love is...that you care about someone, that you understand and will always be there for 'em. The opposite of hate in other words

 

im not the type to believe in "love", but its pretty much what was said below.
BUt the question isn't what is it? It is how do you get it, or recieve it?.. what?im in a weird mood right now..