Love is a four letter word. Although I do love ice cream

Dopamine? Approximately 3 years

I used to think I knew what love was. Having suffered from it, I now call it "attachment", and I hope I never suffer from it again.

I don't think you can make love happen, it just happens. I think you will truly know love when you feel like you have lost that person forever and at that crucial moment in time, you cry in an uncontrollable and unexpected way. I think getting to that point is something that will take multiple years for a person that has a forcefield around their emotions, but for others who connect easily, they may be able to find it faster.

I'm one of the types that have that forcefield around the heart, and I've only felt this type of loss once in my life was when my best friend in an extremely drunken state told me he wanted to kill me numerous times after we fought in the back of my car on my birthday. He pinned my head against the car wall, and I threw one punch and landed it in order to dislodge my self from the wall and he missed knocking off my glasses. He was super pissed but my younger brother calmed him down enough for us to get back to the house, without further fighting in the car. At the house, while I was getting my stuff to move out, my younger brother and his older brother held him back initially while he raged more. I left the room I was renting at his older brothers house we were all living in thinking that I had lost my best friend forever.

I, fortunately, had someone give me free Pistons tickets 1.5 years later on the last day of the season, but I couldn't find anyone that could go at my work, at last, the last minute. I resigned my stubbornness and called his house to drop off some extra tickets to the game. When I got to his house they showed up unexpectedly after they were done with work and we all went to the game like the fight we had never happened.

"An intense feeling of deep affection" is the basic dictionary definition. Seems fine to me.

Everyone of course comes to the term with their own expectations, often informed by pop culture and other, um ... unreliable sources of inspiration.

It is a mistake to expect love with a significant other to solve all your personal problems. Indeed, it's apt to just magnify them, so it's a good idea to get your personal shit together as much as possible before indulging in it.

Oh gosh. It’s the one thing that drives me absolutely mad! It’s so illogical but we can’t live with out it!!

I think a lot of people believe love is that thing you feel when puberty sets and you began noticing the opposite gender (or same gender if you're gay or whatever lol), which then leads to butterflies in your stomach, which sometimes leads to rejection, which then leads to that feeling of a "broken heart". But, in my opinion, this is lust/infatuation with the opposite (or same) gender. The heart broken feeling would be the feeling of rejection and/or loneliness.

However, I know what love is to me because I've had it, and still have it with my nieces and nephews. No, I'm not some weird sex criminal lol

To me, love is giving up EVERYTHING for the person(s) in question, including life and freedom. For me, It isn't about sex, although I do believe you can make love to someone you do love. I know I truly love someone when they leave for an extended period of time and I'm constantly thinking about their wellbeing and safety.

Thats just a few of what I believe to be signs that one loves another unconditionally.

Love, IMO, includes an ability to feel sad rather than angry when another offends me.

Love is not lust it's a bonding that is hard to describe, putting the other in front of your needs but must be mutual both should feel the same. A bonding that includes close friendship and does involve lust but not just that

Baby don’t hurt me.
Don’t hurt me.
No more.

Lol
Love is a lie.

Love is a choice. Some say that love is unconditional. They are wrong.

Yes. The term love is misleading. Like you. I have gotten close with a few humans but the feeling of love that many talk about.

"Love is a subjective condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own happiness." - R. A. Heinlein

One, its about perpetuation, and that picture in our minds of two people sharing intimacy. Two, its about our amnesia. There is an aspect of the mind where you can concentrate on something but at the same time are also completely forgetful.

There is a difference in "loving" someone and being "in love" with someone. I have been "in love" (or at least I thought I was) more than once and it is a two edged sword that can cut you to pieces with both sides. Loving someone can bring you joy and/or disappointment, but it does not cut you to the quick and hurt, harm or damage you.

It's when you value someone else more than yourself in every way and want them to be happy moreso than your own acquisition of happiness. In other words, someone who means so much to you that you would sacrifice your own happiness to ensure theirs. And it often tends to last when they feel the same about you.

Baby don’t hurt me
Don’t hurt me
No more

Primordial.

Love is a brain state with all the attending chemicals and side effects.

"I feel that humans have put their own fairy-tale definition on what love is." Agree. Many animal species exhibit a temporary period of consorting pairs.

Tim Roth provides a pretty good definition . . .

Love varies from type of love.
My love for my mother
My love for my brother
My love for my friends
My love for my kids
Every one of those is different the only feeling that is shared between them is fondness

Love is what you and the person you love agree that it is.

I found this article on ancient Hawaiian culture. I think it speaks to the difference between Christianity’s influence on how we view sexuality and at least one indigenous culture’s. I also think the idea of “love” is also closely related.

[hawaii.edu]

Love is when you can not stand being apart each other Love is when you finish each others sentences Love is powerful it is painful and it is Wonderful It will make you lie cheat steal and also make you the best version of who you are all at the same time. Lastly Love is a friendship that can with stand anything