Help, please?

Can you define what love is, in your own words?

A deep showing of affection for someone. Some that you can trust and you can always rely on them no matter what. Someone who you have no trouble opening up too. Someone who you feel natural with and you don't have to act differently for them.

That is love in my own words.

Try reading about the triangular theory of love. Ah, those wacky psychologists. They have a theory for everything.

Myself I wholeheartdly believe that you must love takes time. It isn't when you look at someone and go, "I think I'm in love," or when you tell someone you've only been dating (or even known) for 3 days (or less), " I think I love you." Love is when you've spent a good deal of time with one person and you know you can spend the rest of your life with that person. Finding out if you'd like to spend the rest of your life with someone takes time. A lot of time.


That's my take on love.

I know about that; Puff took psychology class. ^_^


Thanks guys, for helping.

D' you think physical intimacy/contact is the basis of love?

Hold on, I defined love in a previous topic. I'll go find it. <3

If you ask me, love is a feeling so deep that you'd be wililng to sacrifice yourself to save the life of that person. It's got to be a perfect combination of physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and social intimacy.

After like forever of searching, I finally found it:

... Yeah. I was replying to dear Cadin's wish for a definition of "true love". Same deal, really.

As for your second question... I guess that really depends on how you view love. If you view it as just a deep caring for someone, as in love for a friend or family member, then physical contact isn't really needed. If you're talking about actual romantic love (which I'm assuming, due to the fact that I know you :P ), it... Well, that's hard to answer. I read a Dear Abby column once dealing with long distance relationships (except it was like a boyfriend gone overseas in the military). She said that it is possible to make them work, but you'd have to put alot of effort in. You'd need to talk to the person frequently and for decently long periods of time, as well as as many visits as possible.

In my opinion, though, distance/time doesn't really make the heart grow fonder. It's not the basis of love, or, it shouldn't be. What's the point of marrying someone if you don't know a thing about them, or if you don't trust them? Trust should be the basis of love. Honestly, I'd rather have a long conversation with someone I trust than mack someone I don't. That's just me though. It's all in preferences.

Nope. Love doesn't have a defination. It is different for every person every time.

Obsolutely not. In the Hormone-driven states of america, It seems to be more of a status thing. I believe that you can be in love without physical contact/intimacy. Loving people for the way the act/think for example.

I think King got the closest:

Not sure about the rest of that post though...

I can't really say. I don't have a definition for love really. It's just a feeling...Well, not just a feeling... that's why I can't really say.

Despite all the sappy fanfics I write, I believe that love does not exist.

What some people call love is nothing but an excretion of endorphins by the brain when confronted with a potential mate. When that mate can give the individual what their genes dictate that they want, the release of endorphins becomes transfixed whenever that one person is in their presence. In other words, the body learns to differentiate one individual from another... only with hormones, not only the eyes and brain.

That's just my opinion. :rolleyes:

Ya um... that's what I think in ways too... not the same cold hearted way but it's kinda close.

Ya that's the scientific idea of it (second bloded part.)

Love... Well love is where you care deeply of and about someone... can't say there's a definition but I can tell you that you'll know the right person when you see them... if your not just a love-sick freak who wants to date...

LOTSA HUGGLES!!! XD