John Hamm, the Mad ad man says, "love is something a guy like me made up to sell nylons". If you follow that series you see that he's a troubled and lonely man, so maybe that's not working that well for him.

Love is finding another whilst finding oneself and visa versa. Each enters the limelight cast by the others consciousness and in so doing each comes within the luminous sphere of his own radiation which while illuminating the other is reflected in his own consciousness. OK, this is lust, but the essense of romantic love.

Although Huey Lewis And The News could probably best answer that question, I would say yes, I do believe in true fine love. Love is equal emotions directed towards that special someone.

Yes, I believe in love.

I also believe the "in love" feeling (hormone high) fades and, under the right circumstances, with the right match, CAN be replaced by something deeper, stronger, more mature, more stable, more grounded.

It doesn't always happen, but it can.

At this point, I don't know.

Mental disorder

Yes, but its often confused with and buried by lust and/or obsession/posession.

Love is putting the other person before yourself (not forgetting your needs, just putting the other first). It means being thrilled to compromise if you can instead of being angry and bitter because you don't get your own way. It's wanting to see them happy so not doing things you know would cut into that, not just because it would hurt them but seeing that would also kill you. It means letting go and being without them if that is what they need.

I think there are some people who are unable to do this for any number of reasons but I've known a few people who honestly didn't know how to be any other way.

Your question caught my eye and I had just been thinking about this. It had occurred to me that "love" is a thing like "God". It has no existennce outside of the mind. Nevertheless I am convinced that the most important thing for a person to do in their life if they want to have any happiness is to love and be loved. I have missed that in my life. I had a difficult childhood and adolescence and thought the remedy to get my life on track was to join the Marines. If you go off to war, as I did, your chances to live a happy life are greatly reduced. So, I can see how vital love is to a person's life by the fact that I don't have it and never did.

A very close bond on many levels.

Sure, Love is a grant concept. I think is a useful idea to distinguish commitment and feeling you would have for someone that is qualitatively different then other forms of attraction. That sounds a bit too intellectual for such an emotional idea doesn’t it ?

A lie perpetuated by hormones and marketing.

I do believe in love. It is however a very difficult feeling to explain or justify to others. I find loving others easy but that does not mean that I am always loving or capable of loving the way others understand love. That’s the problem... society and its demands and its errors and misconceptions make it nearly impossible to experience love... society cheapens love by institutionalizing it.

Adoration

I believe in it but I am occasionally dissapointed by human love. Love between people is always conditional. We have expectations and requirements whether we admit it or not. I've been on both sides where I was looked at as not meeting expectations and where someone did not really meet mine anymore and it can make people fall out of love. I really wish that there was a fundamental unconditional love but people change and lives change too much for that to be possible.

What's love got to do, got to do, got to do with it? Heheheh. Yes. It is what it is and what it is, who really knows? This is what I believe in.

I do believe in love. Never had a long term relationship that was healthy. I think love is two people having similar feelings for each other. I hope I can experience it.

I do believe in love, I have been in love two times in my life. For me, it's hard to explain exactly what it is. Do I ever think I will find love again? I hope so.