Not to be confused with lust, what is love?

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Alright @MrMontpetit, I’ll see you and raise

When someone else’s happiness, comfort and/or well being is more important than your own.

A verb.

if its more important then youre own i think you arent in love, youre obsessed.

Love is damn near impossible to define. But you know when it happens to you.

Protip: If you have to ask if it is love, it isn’t.

@Triiiple: So your own happiness, comfort and well-being is more important to you than that of your spouse or child?

I dont have a child so i cant say anything about that, but girlfriend wise or anything like that, yeah my own happiness definitely comes first

@Triiiple: Well then, when you have a spouse and/or child someday, your opinion may change on this – IMHO.

This is not to say you should neglect yourself either.

@MrMontpetit Well Played.

Whether it’s platonic, romantic, or familial, I think it’s love if it hurts real bad when you’re apart.

I think this should be added to the top ten most asked questions list, if it isn’t already there.

Love is when you fight with someone and always make up before you go to bed.

@daloon – My eighth grade teacher told us the same thing, that he never went to bed angry with his wife. He was sharing because a lot of kids in my class that year had parents who were divorcing and it was affecting things. One girl had openly despaired whether she’d be able to disagree with a man ever without having to break up with him and he said what he said.

I wish I could remember everything else he said. He had a pretty serious talk with us all about adult relationships that day. He was a very wise and and honourable man.

In the words of Frankie Goes To Hollywood – “A force from above…”

Take this example: If the person you “love” got into a car accident and they got paralized, are willing to stand by that person for the rest of your life? Are you willing to take care of that person through better and worse. I think for some this may be a harsh example, but I heard someone say it once and I have thought about love alot differently.

Love isn’t just about the good times, it is about the worse. People tend, now a days, to break up with someone if they have one argument. Love to me is more then just good times. Always, when in a relationship, know that good things come with the bad.

@lakersfuture Great answer.

While that is an extreme example, I have known people to end relationships because their SO lost their job, gained some weight, or was temporarily depressed.

Good relationships take hard work and commitment – period. Love, lust, desire, and romance are the icing on the cake. I’ve seen too many relationships go down because someone only wanted the frosting.

@cprevite My boyfriends father once said this and I had never thought about it that way before hand. His father used this example to explain “love” to them as they were growing up. I loved this because I now know that when he says it that he means it. Another thing about lust and love. I think that when you first start a relationship with someone it is lust and then love plays a part later. Some people i think say I love because they are attracted to someone. Attraction is completely different.

I have been with my boyfriend for over a year and we have been through so much, but the one thing is that we NEVER get ahead of ourselves. When you love someone you WILL know!!!

As a start, comparison between lust and love is only applicable when talking about girlboy relationship. If you truthfully love a person, you’ll take a bullet for him/her. If its just lust, its more towards sex. Correct amount of lust and love makes a relationship wonderful.

love is unconditional…. meaning that if ur mate got in a car accident n was horribly unrecognizable… that is a condition. in true love, u love the person for who they are, not exactly what they are.