How would you describe love to someone who has never experienced it?

Its like the floaty feeling you get when you hold your breath too long.

a psychological phenomenon caused by certain chemicals in the brain that expresses itself in certain behaviours, such as protectiveness, sexual attraction, happiness when around the person of interest, etc.

When you remember something about them you get this pain in your abdomen that starts to heat up and you want to yell.

Any human being who has never experienced love has suffered through a perinatal and post perinatal existence that militates against them ever being able to love or be loved. Here is a link about Attachment Disorder

@pdworkin Thanks, I’m quite familiar with attachment theory. I mainly meant romantic love, not the kind of bond attachment theories primarily address. :)

Love is the result of human connectedness at its deepest level. It is unaltered by the mainstream barriers of should, maybe, and want to be. It is at its root, harmony with another human being in a way that is profound. It really needs no explanation for when you truly love someone deeply, you will know it, feel it, and live it with no advice or recrimination. Nothing can stop you from loving someone, so if a friend can talk you or provide logic out of it, you are not in love. That may be a test for its reality. Love is the driving force of the species and the only true mechanism to peace in the world. (thanks, John Lennon).

You feel you want to share every beautiful experience you’ve had with your love
The pains and disappointments of your past feel so far away
You feel inspired to treat yourself better in order to give your best for your love
You think of things to ease, secure, boon and thrill your love

@Likeradar Do you then feel that people with attachment disorder have the capacity for romantic love?

@pdworkin No, I don’t think they do, not in a whole sense. But I also don’t think that someone who has yet to experience romantic love necessarily has an attachment disorder.

@hungryhungryhortence and @dannyc Beautiful answers.

I’m sorry, I missed that distinction in the OP.

I don’t think you can. Love seems like such a fluid thing, it can’t possibly be the same for everyone.

I say this because every description of love has no meaning to me and the true honest to god love that I feel for the girl in my life seems like way more then anything anyone has ever described.

So I’ll answer in this way:

Love is something without description or understanding, it just is what it is, simply the most beautiful and amazing everything that you can ever feel for another person. We are just lucky that someone invented a word to describe it.

sorry is if this the least romantic and just the most practical answer here, but it is what it is

I would tell them that Love is like something you have never experienced before.

A feeling that makes you feel like DANCING Oh yeah and squeal a lot

Love is an extension of like. And lust, an extension.

When you find that you would raher be with someone all the time than be alone, that may be love. I find it hard to believe that anyone can actually reach adulthood without ever experiencing love of any kind

love makes you have trouble concentraiting. You feel complete when you are with them, and unable to do anything without them.
Love is also the punch in the gut that makes you piss blood.

Many of the descriptions here are infatuation, not life long love. It would be hard on anyone to experience the floaty, breathless, trouble concentrating kind of love for the rest of your life. When you truly love someone, they become a natural part of your life, just as the passing of the days and nights. When they are near, when they are far away, it makes no difference, they are part of you and you are part of them.

Like an orgasm for the mind and heart.. but also kind of like constant ache in some way or other.

You fill up my senses
like a night in the forest
like the mountains in springtime,
like a walk in the rain
like a storm in the desert,
like a sleepy blue ocean
you fill up my senses,
come fill me again.

Come let me love you,
let me give my life to you
let me drown in your laughter,
let me die in your arms
let me lay down beside you,
let me always be with you
come let me love you,
come love me again.

John Denver

He hasn’t sung that in a while.

I cried yet again when I copied it.

Well, love to me is the uncontrollable string that brings you back to the person. No matter what you do, your distracted, cause your heart is talking. One of the best feelings in the world, next to… well, you know.

@YARNLADY: how strange to feel this song in a way as I never have, barely even paid it much mind after hearing it for so many years. Maybe this is an understanding or coming into love? hmmn.

A warm fuzzy feeling inside you that makes you want to smile all the time. All you think about is that other person and how you can’t wait to be with him or her again. When you’re together, you want to stay close and just enjoy that moment as if nothing else existed.

That’s how I feel when I’m in love.

Love is that butterfly feeling in your tummy everytime you see the person xx

@spinnicky Welcome to fluther. Lurve.

You cant, love is a different experience for each individual. Whether its crazy, romantic, platonic, whatever – how it feels to one person is not going to be the same as it feels to another person!

It makes you want to say, “I love you.”

it’s the feeling you get when you can’t stop thinking of someone, yet you just want to know where they are, how they’re doing, what their doing. And you picture yourself being with that person, talking to them about anything or nothing at all.

it’s that feeling you get deep within yourself that keeps you from getting mad at the person no matter what they do.

and that’s my idea of love.

You say, “It’s like——It’s like….” alot and make outpouring motions with your hands.

I can’t describe it – words will never do it justice, and to try is an insult. Shakespeare never managed to provide an accurate picture, and neither did any other author I have come across.

You could say that you feel a deep connection to every love poem you read :)

Love is a mind boggling, sense numbing, heart pounding, stomach flipping, take my breath away, head over heels, knee shaking, butterfly fluttering kinda feeling… :)