What does love really feel like?

[IVIodern]

Sorry if in the wrong place

Thread (http://fourdeltaone.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22807) that put the idea to post here in my head.

During this topic I want to refer to your 'partner', wheather that is your boyfriend or girlfriend. I don't want to bring any family into it.

I have some question for you, yes YOU. Personally, I have never has a girlfriend (as I am straight). This rings a bell in my head about the future, what will I do. I am not the type of person who goes out every weekend to 'hook up' with anyone. I would feel like I would be the type of person who would love someone. I have never has this feeling of love before so I am asking you these few questions; I would like you to answer properly and not just like a 'yes' for everything. Structure is the key. EDIT: 3 posts down is what I like to see :3

1) - Have you ever been in love with a significant other?
2) - When you are older, would you like to be like me, 'love' someone or go around hooking up with every third person you see?
3) - Do you have any problems with getting someone to like you? (By this I mean are you really social and have no problems getting people to like you or want to go out with you)
4) - If you think you have been in love before, what does it feel like? (like thinking about each other, sex, compliments and such)
5) - Are you happy where you are, would you like to spend the rest of your life with the person you are currently with?

[ackmedsgirl666]

i am inlove with my current partner
and even though we have made mistakes we forgave eachother and moved on
we love eachother so much we want to get married. and thats planned for this year
i know i am inlove with him because the way we look at eachother the way we see eachother its true love... the feeling you get when your riding a horse bareback in the wind.. freedom and complete happiness. he makes me feel whole.. and i love him so much and nobody could ever be better for him than me... i could never forgive myself if i lost him.

[workingatperfect]

1. Yup :) I'm in love with my current partner.

2. Definitely love. For the first time I can see myself settling down and I definitely wouldn't want anything else.

3. Yes I do. I'm incredibly unsocial. I don't talk much unless someone approaches me first, and I'm really bad at taking a friendship past the "acquaintances" stage.

4. It's hard to describe... I guess for me it's things like when we look into each other's eyes and all we see is how beautiful the other is inside and out, or when I think about his arms around me and all my problems fade away, how perfect he makes me feel just by smiling at me the way he does... Those are the times when I know deep down he's the one I want to spend my life with. Even when I'm irritated with him, all I want to do is hold him. I'm comfortable with him, and with sharing every part of my body and mind/soul/heart/etc and life with him. It's the best feeling ever.

[FreeFall]

1) - Yes, both loved and am IN love.

2) - I dislike hooking up. It's not for me. Makes me feel like I'm just trying food at a salad bar.

3) - No. Not to sound cocky but I'm pretty attractive in the cute department so that's what goes for me. I'm not social, like at all. My appearance is what makes friends for me, if that makes sense. It works against me because it's irritating to have people follow you around thinking we're friends, and when I say "leave me alone" or fuck off if they get me angry, they go "aaaaaaaw she cursed! You kidder we're friends" and ignore me. If I warm up to them or stop caring, they never leave.

4) - Yes, I am currently in love. When he's gone, I feel numb. It's like when I think about him, I'm numb. It's a moment of lalala oh yea, that guy's my boyfriend. But then when we're together, I'm alive again. I touch him, look at him, and still am surprised every time a month passes. To me it still feels as if we've only been together for 3 months, not almost for 2 years! 2 years, wow. I remember our anniversary, we sat on the sofa with buffalo chicken wings watching Dragon Ball Z. We had wanted to go to Olive Garden but dammit the line was in the parking lot, so we both said NO get chicken! We cannot read each other's minds, but we can anticipate each other and that's what we love. If I'm sitting on the sofa he has no idea if I'm thinking about puppies or what it would be like to have cyborg arms. But if he places candy on the table or puts a blanket near by, he knows I will go for those things and interact with them, but he knows every possible way. The same for me to him. He makes me feel safe, secure. He benefits me, makes me grow as a person, makes me grow for myself and for him. Sex with him, is nothing ever before. It feels like when you sink into a bubble bath. It feels good, but it makes me feel like I'm safe and surrounded in warmth and peace. He takes care of me (wisdom teeth, ear infections) and just, he surrounds me, he's legitimately my better half.
To condense that, it feels like I'm ripping up into tiny itty bitty pieces but each time I come back, and I'm better each time. There's a constant warmth on me, like sunlight, and whenever I smell a scent that smells like him, my heart flutters and my eyes get misty because it's not him but he's here in my memory, heart, soul and he's all over me. I truly love him.

[InfamousPanda]

1- I thought I loved before, but Iv never really loved until I met this girl. I love her.
2- I used to like hooking up, I used to see a hot girl and be like, "Wow, she's gorgeous. Ima go see if I can get some of that." After I met this girl that changed. Now I just look at other girls as friends, cuz the only girl I want is this one girl.
3- When I'm depressed (which I am alot) I have alot of problems makin friends and stuff. WHen I'm not depressed I have no problems.
4- this girl... when she's around, and everything is going good, it's like my entire world is complete. When we don't have contact, it feels like something is missing from my life, I feel empty. When something bad happens between us, it feels like someone is stabbing me in the chest. Like the emotional pain is so overwhelming that It turns into physical pain.

[IVIodern]

Added question 5
I am liking these answers, hopefully some more people will post with these sort of answers.

[FreeFall]

5) I'm happy where I am, but I know I'll be happier if we get married, and that I will become unhappy if we remain like this. I know I will not be fulfilled or satisfied as being a girlfriend or spirit/soul wife for the rest of my life. As he is now, I'd love to spend the rest of my life with him. He has proposed to me (without a ring, uehrgrth. Said he'd get one later). and it was sweet and certainly surprised me but the rational side of me knows we have no financial stability, no independence and still have life choices to discuss before we marry (kids, pets, the awkward traditions and customs his family has that I do not want him transferring into our would have been family) so we consider ourselves married in our hearts and are just waiting to get our own place, me to get out of school or in a place at school where I know I can be a wife and student just fine. Live like that for awhile, see if co-habitation will make or break us, and go from there. But if I could spend the rest of my life with him, I'd know happiness.

[Dimentio]

Yes i have been in love before, I cannot say how i felt it was just the best, But it turned out to be the worse ha ha.
Love! I am a soppy romantic who is into snuggles, chick flicks and musicales, Sex and nudity is the last thing on my mind!
On the internet i have had a fair few people like me, In real life only 4 and only one i dated non i loved and 2 i liked, But in friends way people love me normally :D
Well i thought about him 24/7, He was my world and everything, My only joy to going to school, My only depression to leaving school, He was my life, But in the end, It yeah.
These questions are only from my side but i was just saying what love for me was like ;) But yeah, If i could be with someone i am hoping it would be for life, It'd be nice :)

[Texas warrior]

1) - Have you ever been in love with a significant other? No
2) - When you are older, would you like to be like me, 'love' someone or go around hooking up with every third person you see? I prefer stable relationships if thats what your asking
3) - Do you have any problems with getting someone to like you? No
4) - If you think you have been in love before, what does it feel like? Fire

[workingatperfect]

5. Well that depends what you're asking... I do want to spend the rest of my life with my current partner, but am I happy with where we are in our relationship? Well that's difficult to answer. We're long distance. I can handle it for the time being, but obviously I'm going to need to be with him at some point in the next few years, or no I won't be happy. But I accept that we can't physically be together right now, so I'll take what I can get because I love him and I'm willing to wait and put in the effort for the future I know we can and will have together.