Psychology What is love?

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I think you're right, love can be fake at times...making things difficult, and hard to state whether it is real or not...therefore sometimes misunderstanding what it really is...(wtf?) I really am not sure about this...Im sorry...Im kinda loosin' half of my brain right now... :dizzy2:

 

I cant believe that this is the first time I noticed this thread but I think I have an answer that many of you will appreciate since I'm drawing it from my own experiences.

Love is a feeling of trust, respect, kindness, and understanding for someone else. When you truly love someone, you feel the need to be near them but if you can't, you are still perfectly capable of functioning...its not like you can't eat or sleep or any of that nonsense...thats called a fairy tale infatuation. When you truly love someone you can still do all the normal things you do but you always have that little voice inside your head that says "I bet I'd be having more fun or enjoying myself more if she was here with me."
When you truly love someone you trust them undoubtedly...you do not become jealous when they talk to their friends or when their attention is needed somewhere other than you. You treasure every minute you have with her and when she needs to talk to a friend with a problem or has to run an errand you are fully capable and willing to give her the space she needs.
Love is something that causes changes in your behavior that alter you for the better. For instance...you love her so much that whenever she talks to you, you absorbe everything she says like a sponge and always want to listen to her more. You find that you enjoy doing household chores when you're doing them with the person you love because you know that you are helping them and they appreciate it.
Love grows with time and is always deepening.
Love is a feeling of acceptance, devotion, and consistence...(you always feel this way, it doesn't change from day to day)
Love make you think about what the other person wants and needs rather than what you want and need. You become willing to sacrifice your own wants and desires for the other person's happiness.
Love is a feeling that draws you to who a person is rather than how a person looks.
When something bad happens, a misinterpretation or one of you puts your foot in your mouth (figure of speech), neither of you panic and start making assumptions and want to break up. Instead you both want to talk to each other and work though whatever the problem may be in order to stay together. Love is so incredibly complicated but one thing that is a strong indicator is when you feel it for one and only one person. When you truly love someone, you can be flirted with, hinted at, taunted at, and hit on by anyone else there is and it will not effect you half as much as a simple "hello" or "hay babe" from the person you love. Believe me...I know. The last thing that defines true love for someone is something you will never be told from TV, News, or Magazines and that is that when you truly love someone you can feel fulfilled, pleased, and happy simply by sitting on a couch and holding her in your arms. Sex is not a requirment to achieve this level of commitmet and happiness. Sex will no doubt be an incredible way to express your love for that person but it is not needed to define love and will be a million times better if it is something that only you and the person you love have ever shared with each other once you're married.
I may only be 18 and I have to wait until I'm done with college but everything I've told you is exactly what I feel every single day for my girlfriend. I love her with all my heart and I truly believe I've found the one person in the world that I want to spend the rest of my life with. When my four years of college are over I plan to find myself on one knee asking a question...:sweat2:
I hope that my personal experiences have helped you in some way and I truly believe that what I've told you is about the closest thing your going to get in terms of what it really feels like to love someone.

 

Zealot has a pretty good answer..

I just want to add this..

""to be my wedded wife/husband. To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.""

If you think about these words, This is what it means to be in love. Saying them is one thing but actualy doing them till the day you die is another.. When you stick by someone on the good and the bad days no matter how bad it gets.. that is what true love is.. Its devotion, loyalty, caring, all mixed together..

 

well i think love is not undescribeble, it's just diferent to each person so no one can say what it's really like... but it can hurt if the person wants too.