What is love?How do you know that it is true love? What are your thoughts on the whole subject?

"Love knows no boundries" This is the way you know what love is. When distance, age, status in life mean so litle to you that you would still cross an ocean to be in their arms. Its not having to say a word, but knowing what the other is thinking. Its being able to get through a rough day because you know they're thinking about you. Love makes life worth living. People mistake lust for love because they have never experienced love and need intamacy.. which is different from love. Love is all encompassing -- passionate, deep, and sustaining.

Love is often considered a love hate relationship. That is you can be very angry with a person and through it all you still have love for them. Love is not just loving someone that loves you back. You can love someone from a far and they may never know it. You can love someone all your life and never get to share it with that person. True love is that which goes beyond puppy love or lust or a passing fancy or just liking someone. Many people take one of the latter and mistake it for true love. Teenagers finding there first real romance will often mistake puppy love for True love. They can get pretty hurt when the love is not return of suddenly falls apart. However, that is part of learning what love is all about. Also, hopefully we learn from those experiences and make better choices in the future. There is no majaic formula for love or selecting someone. There are a few common sense sort of things, but it is different for different types of people. Just ask your parents and you will often get a different set of ideas that you might not share! What one selection to one person is another's horrible idea of choice. For example, a motorcylce angel with tattoos and a long hair may be your dream while to another it is a nightmare. True love can stand the test of time, angry arguments, insults, or other things that people sometimes in a fit of angry might toss at each other. Yet, their love continues because it is true and not based on like or some temporary form of love. There is love that we have for our children, parents, grandparents, or someone deeply involved person in your life. This is a differnt type of love because sexial lust does not come into the love, but still it is love. You love the person in spite of their faults. A friend can be loved, but the relationship is usually more based on trust and great care rather than love itself. There is a reliouse love. People love Jesus because of the act of dieing for us. A giving of Himself for nothing we did to deserve it. That type of love is based upon a great inward need to be loved and for noone to expect anything from us except to return that love. Pets are loved because we want to love something that depends upon us and shows (at least) a desire to please us and only wants love (and food!) in return. Greater Love as no man, but that he should give up his life for another. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who so ever believes upon Him should be saved. Love is a sweet fresh breath gently flowing among the flowers of our life. Read the "Song of Solomon" one of the books in the Bible. It is a an expression of one man's love. Some believe for God but it is written as to a woman that Solomnon was in love with at the time. The details of his descriptions are considered some of the most romantic ever written. The song "Love is a Many Splendor Thing" express great thoughts about love. Most of our songs are written for, about, or becasue of love. Love moves our inward being and is not push a side by others or time or space. We feel love emotionally, physically, spiritually, and mentially. We desire to give and to be loved. Often people become bitter because of being hurt in love. That is why somme turn into men or woman haters. They have been hurt and afraid to be hurt again. Yet love is better than hate and brings us joy and happiness while hate only brings us sickness, loneliness, and empty lives. Studies have been made that prove that people in love and married live far longer than those that are not. Love brings a peace and joy that cannot be replaced. True there are those that lives are constant troubles and saddness, but that is because only one loves and the other does not. That is why we must choose carefully, to find that someone that will love you too. I hope you find that true love. Do not give up from mistakes or being hurt. Love is a human need more than air or anything else, we need love to forfill our hunger mentially, physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

Firstly Love is a obsession you have twards someone that lets you be yourself. True love is often when someone is believeing in you , and makes you believe in them. Physically they make you hold your breath when you think of their name. If you dont know how old they are think of them as a person , I met someone online and they turned out to be a different age than I thought, but when I met that person I still felt the same about that special friend. Love is actually a factor between everyone , a relationship is based on how much love you have , witch is how much do you trust , respect , and blossom in life when you think about them. How does that person make you feel about yourself is the bottom line. If they make you feel confident and acomplished about yourself then they are loving , and your loving them. This is only a small factor though. qoute ("Love is a safe home , and lust is a fire in the chimney") A fire burns over the night , and love is home forever , a home that cannot be destroyed. " Hights can make your heart race , but only love makes hearts fall". Love is often misused though as a meaning , it is defined very disrespectively. People mistake love for they do not take it seriously. There is no part time love , love is forever , however love can be misrepresented and distrustful that kills love , and lust can disrespect love thus making love a white lie or killing it. People mistake love for they are so busi wanting to get it , they give no thought to being loving with their thoughts. The only way that love grows is threw being happy for each other , and making eachother happy , and confident. Love is a status of friendship. If he or she is not much as a friend , then love is very little and not witheld , however you can still be loving , with encouragement. Just dont get lost in soulmates when online , you cant be a soulmate untill you live with someone a lifetime. However you can love somone online just the same as in person. In fact at times better , but use it as an advantage not as a status of relationship.

quite simple Love does not exist BUt then what do you define as love? Is love a toaster? then it does exist! Love as an emotion is not what anyone actually thinks it is. Real love means death.

one thing... that to fall in love is a mestry.. but there is no such a thing like part time love.. i's not love it's necessasity or you can say only sex.. when you are feeling love.. i think you'll feel thrilling in your tummy... that some thing is going on in it.. you like to touch him, and when you touch you feel like some thing going on through your body and you can't understand... and if it's really strong feeling then you can't take off your eyes from him.. you can watch only him not any one around him or you.. you are watching all people but it really happens like you are listning him only although he is not telling to you or telling to you.. you don't like to stay without him.. and you always think about him.. good morning in bed with his thoughts and nights with his dreams... and you don't care about how old he is??? and you don't care about any thing else you cares about aonly him.. and may ba you can forget yourself for him!!!!... and with his thought you'll feel pain in your heart may be all in your body but you feel that pain in heart makes you happy... you want to feel that for life time.. and you don't care about him that he's bad or good but you always love what ever he's doing.... if he's doing something bad for any one you supposed to tell him but you won't fight for that at first you will explain him why youfeel that that thing is wrong... it's for you that you can say that you are in love but from him side... i think you have to see his face.. is he ready to leave all things for you.... any thing only once you said.. just check that out.. he would never say no to you for anything and you are also going to do that for him... he always wats you to be with him for life time!!!he'll tell you many times that he loves you but with love in his eyes.. can you see that love in his eyes... read the happiness in his eyes when you go away from him and come near to him... it would never be less.... don't make mistake to find the true love....

Love is a delectable pain,a agreeable torment, a pleasant sore, a sweet & throbbing wound in short a "GENTLE DEATH"

According to Robert Sternberg's research, "Love" is an emotion consisting of three components: intimacy, passion & committment. Intimacy, the feeling close and connected to someone (developed through sharing and very good communications over time). Intimacy is what makes you want to share and offer emotional and material support to each other. -Intimacy alone is Liking (true friendship without passion or long-term commitment) Passion, the feeling physically aroused and attracted to someone. Passion is what makes you feel "in love" and is the feeling most associated with love. It also rises quickly and strongly influences and biases your judgment. -Passion alone is Infatuation (passionate, obsessive love at first sight without intimacy or commitment) Commitment, pledging to your self and each other to strengthen the feelings of love and to actively maintain the relationship. Commitment is what makes you want to be serious, have a serious relationship and promise to be there for the other person if things get tough. -Commitment alone is Empty Love (decision to love another without intimacy or passion) Romantic Love: Intimacy & Passion, no Commitment -Lovers physically and emotionally attracted to each other but without commitment -“As in a summer romance” Companionate Love: Intimacy & Commitment, but no Passion -Long-term committed friendships or a marriage in which the passion has faded -I love you but I’m not IN love with you Fatuous Love: Passion & Commitment, but no Intimacy -Commitment based on passion with without time for intimacy to develop -Shallow relationship such as a whirlwind courtship Consummate Love: A complete love consisting of all three components

1 Corinthians 13:1 - 14:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; 10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. 13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Love is sacrificial. Love is not death, but it dying to self. That means, rather than seeking what 'I' want, one seeks the good of another. Even if doing so hurts me. An example: I stay up and work overtime time and time again to support my family (not me, but someone in general). I don't have sexual intercourse now, despite the temptation, rather I save my save out of love for my future spouse (again not me in reality). I go to school for six years, even after college, not for my own benefit, but so that I can serve others, help them find happiness in life, though I would rather not be in school, and would rather only seek my own happiness. Or another example, my mother is dying, and stay and live with her care for her, instead of spending time with friends and living "my life" as people say. Love is dying to self, sacrifice oneself for the good of another. The accompanying emotion is being 'enamored' or very much liking someone. This is a very romantic feeling, a butterflies in my stomach feeling, but this feeling does not last. Love is also a choice and can last even beyond death. The emotion being enamored is like all other feelings: it passes. There is a perfect love out there for all of: God, and Jesus Christ who is God and Man and teaches us how to love. There is not a perfect match for anyone, all though for most people there is someone out there with whom they could and should make a good couple. For a small percentage, it is not meant to be. (one proof: not an equal number of women and men in the world. But even if there were, then there would still be some people for whom marriage and significant other is not the best way to live.)

Love is an emotion, that can be very strong indeed. Love is when you care for a person on the inside, NOT the outside. Love is also where you will do anything for that special someone, even if it means dying for the one you care for. Love can easily be confused with lust. Lust is that feeling you get when you want someone, but not forever. In other words, you don't want to marry that someone, but rather, hang onto him/her for as long as possible. There is never really a part time love, IMHO, but love or lust. It's either one or the other. Never both.