What does Love mean to you?

Something worth exchanging my limited precious time and resources on.

Being there for them, putting their needs in front of your own, TRUST, honesty, having someone to grow old with.

suspension of reason

For me love is not about winning or losing but spreading joy / happiness between two people.

Endorphines

It used to mean that I would put the other person first always.
I would give her the best of everything I had and do with less because I loved or more accurately I worshiped her.
Now I feel like love should be easier.
I just wanna be me and be nice to someone and be treated good in return.

What kind of “love” are we talking about here? There are many forms of “love” that can’t be explained simply, and each and every version would require a separate explanation, so please be more specific as to what you mean by “love.”

I was thinking you were referring to romantic love, but now with @kritiper answer yeah what kind of love are we talking about??

At its best it’s wanting to be near that person all the time, good times and bad. Not that you have to be glued to them, but just that you look forward to being with them, helping them, and sharing with them. You also feel their pain. I think we have empathy for the people we love good and bad. We experience their joy and pain.

Something worth investing in and holding onto.

Can’t there be one definition which will cover all types?

Acceptance and forgiveness

A feel of very strong affection to someone, or pleasure during some specific experience. It’s heavily exploited by the arts and entertainment, becoming the main subject of every mediocre piece of art ever. The most misused, abused, and overused concept in the whole human history, in every culture that humankind knows of.

A brain disease.

virus

I’m thinking of the love I have for family, friends and pets which can’t be described the same way romantic love can be described, but is just as common and important.

Love is the expansion of self to include others whose needs are held equally to one’s own.

I’m the the “mental illness” crowd. It’s also sort of an addiction.

@imrainmaker No. Absolutely not.

It means never having to say you’re sorry… for folks of a certain age who recall a certain movie.

Chemical reaction in your brain that makes you feel hot and weak when approached by the person you love that trigger that reaction.

It’s altruistic. It sees what cannot be seen with the eye. It’s honest, even if it hurts. It is never vindictive. Real love has integrity. It’s a choice.

I’m pretty sure it how I feel about my kiddo. Yep. It’s love alright. Ain’t got no time for the stupid romantic sort anymore. I finally worked it out that it’s not for me.

Beats me, questions like this one give me a headache.

Love is caring at least as much about another as I do myself.