Love

[Lusty]

Only came in here to do the Haddoway joke and was ninja'd by over an hour. The shame.

 

[Nieroshai]

You can love someone you are attracted to, but attraction is not love. Here's how it works for me.
I love my mom. I love my brothers. I love my dog. I love my friends, to a lesser extent. I also happen to love the girl I became attracted to, and befriended, and plan on marrying. Love is a bond, not a feeling. You can love someone and be mad at them. You can love without sex(obviously or we'd have an incest epidemic). Love is what that person means to you. 16-year-olds are capable of love, but also VERY capable of mistaking the feelings of animal attraction for love. As are we all. I think a big reason the divorce rate's so high is because some who marry for "love" married for a feeling that had nothing to do with love. Sex? Comfort? Dependency?

 

[thahat]

Oh and one more thing do not get your definition of love from Disney (or most movies really but especially not Disney).

took me a looooong time to get my GF off the disney standard XD
disney: giving girls disillusions since 1962 XD

love.. hmm, the feeling that your safe and happy with the other person. but with a sprinkle of never knowing whats going t happen next.
and since im a guy, a generous helping of physical attraction.

something like that, but thats more or less only the start XD

 

[RobCoxxy]

First of all, fuck off with the relationship threads.

Secondly, love is a cankersore; a disgusting, despicable, offensive, sickening emotion which rots the brain, which destroys the body.

I'm detecting that a certain someone has had a slightly bad experience with the warm and fuzzy side of life?

RAK

I have a feeling you don't like life.
1. Fuck off. No one asked you. You could've simply avoided clicking tthat little button and saved everyone including you a major headache.
2. Either get therapy or become a hermit. Meaning: fix what's wrong with you or leave society. Hating the only thing that keeps society sane is PROBABLY a sign that there's something wrong with you.

What your statement says about you:
1. You got spurned once, and you're a crybaby.
2. You think it's cool to act like a surly bastard. Take my word for it, it's not.
3. You're emo/misanthropic. See above.

Being a surly bastard just because you've been scorned or hurt is not the way forward.
I know I'm a cynical, acerbic bastard, but that's me. It's lighthearted cynicism, yours is misguided.

Don't think you're the only person to have been hurt like that. In the past four years, I've gone through plenty of harsh breakups but It hasn't turned me into a vile-spitting prick.

Simulord's been through a LOT worse, and he's still the nicest person on the internet.

 

[Mordwyl]

What is love? Baby don't hu-*hit with a brick*

All you need is lo-*hit with a boulder*

I would do anything for lo- *run over by Meatloaf on his motorcycle*

When I fall in lo- *haunted by Nat King Cole's ghost*

I wanna know what lo- *gunned by hippies*

 

[Jim-a-Lim]

There is a large difference I have found between dating someone and loving them, and being in love. I say this because I would'nt be so silly as to say that I *did'nt* love my two other girlfriends (yes I have only ever had 3 but bear in mind thats over 8 years of dating) , but the current relationship I am in things are significantly different. What I have put it down to is that the actual being in love has gotten myself and Jen through some very challenging times where I was wanting to put her before myself - consistantly. Previously I may have put the other two before myself but I would be making a decision too, whereas with Jen I find myself already trying to serve her before myself.

 

[Bailos]

You really wanna know what love is?
Well its really quite simple...its kinda like
Gonna find my baby gonna hold her tight.............

I will give you the respect you deserve for this. Also, I love lamp.


OT: Honestly, I feel like loving someone is just the thought of them could get you through the day.

 

[iLikeHippos]

I know what love is. I've experienced it. And NONE of the posts above describe it in the SLIGHTEST bit of way imaginable of what I felt.

They are probably inexperienced... At least that's my theory. *shrug*

I fell in love once with a blonde girl. Fun, smart and attractive; all of her traits. Her attitude didn't bother me too much, (save the ants and that bullshit) as her traits more than made up for it.
My feelings for her was strong. Stronger than what I've ever felt to anyone outside my family. I felt nervous around her and crap.

One day, my feelings burst out of my mouth, shouting what I truly felt about her but being a simple friend. I was met with a declining 'no' from her and mocking laughs from my so-called "friends".

What love was on my part, is an obsession over one person you don't have. Not just yet. Yet you don't dare do anything about it.
Happy, shy and slight discomfort is what you'd normally experience if you were to get the love I got.

PS: I've probably repeated myself a lot in these forums. But it just has that special place in my heart. Feeling it's worth repeating.

 

[kikon9]

Love is chemicals and electric synapses in the human brain.

 

[daavisb]

its more than lust. without love we are nothing.

 

[Trippy Turtle]

You really wanna know what love is?
Well its really quite simple...its kinda like
Gonna find my baby gonna hold her tight.............

I will give you the respect you deserve for this. Also, I love lamp.


OT: Honestly, I feel like loving someone is just the thought of them could get you through the day.

"Rick... where did you get a hand grenade?" "i dont know" <-- best movie scene ever

OT: love is (hopefully) someone who enhances your life everyday just by being there.

 

[Yosato]

Being only 18 I'm in the same boat as you my friend; I have no idea what love really is and I'm not sure it even exists, but I do have this one friend who instantly becomes super attached to any girl he goes out with, which makes it all the more annoying when he gets left heartbroken at the inevitable break-up EVERY single time.

 

[Robert632]

What is love? Baby don't hu-*hit with a brick*

All you need is lo-*hit with a boulder*

I would do anything for lo- *run over by Meatloaf on his motorcycle*

When I fall in lo- *haunted by Nat King Cole's ghost*

I wanna know what lo- *gunned by hippies*

And can you feel the lo- *buried in cream cheese*

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

In b4 HK-47
OT:i honestly cant explain love only that its the greatest feeling one can have

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Just go out there and figure it out the fun way, i aint be spoilering that experiences

and by fun i mean: cruel, painful, ridiculously complicated and well, yeah really fun sometimes.

What is love? Baby don't hu-*hit with a brick*

All you need is lo-*hit with a boulder*

I would do anything for lo- *run over by Meatloaf on his motorcycle*

When I fall in lo- *haunted by Nat King Cole's ghost*

I wanna know what lo- *gunned by hippies*

And can you feel the lo- *buried in cream cheese*

We're no strangers to lo- *rolls out*

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Okay, I'm a 16 year old. Among my age group there seems to be this massive belief among the couples that they are in love, and a belief among the singles that at 16 you are probably too hormonal to know what love is. And, for the most part, I agree, we/I are far too young and inexperienced to know what love is without having experienced it. So what I want to know, from those escapists (escapians?) who have found love is this; what is love? Is it a sexualised friendship; a deep emotional dependence on another person to the point where it aches to think of them leaving for any period of time; a mutual respect that exists independent of lust, but normally accompanies it?

Everyone's going to tell you a different description. Hell, this site's crawling with the bitter and the jaded who will practically tell you love doesn't even exist.

For me though, I'm a hopeless romantic. I love the company of another; and for me, love is having somebody you can be completely at ease with. Love is when you've found the person who can be your partner and companion, your team mate, through life. The person you're hopelessly drawn to yet don't question it for a second because, curiously, you love the fact that you love them. In short, love is fucking crazy but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

what is love? Is it a sexualised friendship; a deep emotional dependence on another person to the point where it aches to think of them leaving for any period of time; a mutual respect that exists independent of lust, but normally accompanies it?

Since I am the most qualified to answer this;

Love is what you feel.
If you feel love when you are 16, it is love.
If you are 70, it is love.

It's only a bunch of fools who want to point at younglings and say "Ho ho ho, that's not love. What we have is love! What you have is hormones."
They fail to take into consideration that people are different. Just because you're 16 doesn't mean you have to be immature or only think about sex.

Just out of curiosity do you say that because of age or are you a psychologist of some kind? :]

 

[Glamorgan]

What is love? Baby don't hu-*hit with a brick*

All you need is lo-*hit with a boulder*

Dude no one will ever hurt you for quoting the Beatles.

This guy knows what he's talking about.

Love? God, I have no idea. I've been under its spell a little too often, but I still have no idea what it is. Not sure anyone does, really