L♥VE, love how do you define it? It's a big word isn't it?

[Lovelife090994]

L-o-v-e, spells one of the most loaded words in society, love. Be it seen as friendship, sealed with a kiss, or marked with the easily recognizable heart (♥), what does it mean? Love is a bit of an umbrella. You can love your friend, you love your parents, you love your pet(s), and you may love your hobbies. But you don't love sexually all of the time if ever yet when you do or don't it is still love. Maybe English lacks the words for all love, but to me maybe it's best that we call it what it is.

To me love is when you come home from a hard day and your dog still jumps all over waiting to be loved. Love is when you ask someone to marry you. Love is when your mom forgave you for breaking her vase. Love is when you care for someone. Love is love. Love is patient, love is kind, love is sure, love is true. So what is it to you? Is it a loaded word to you? To me whenever the phrase 'I love you' can make someone's world freeze then obviously it is intense.

Ooh, something tells me that ROTW is no place for a thread on love. If anyone thinks this is better elsewhere, please say so and feel free to make the move, please and thank you!

[Gamma Male]

Love, like all emotion, is merely a chemical process in the brain. That doesn't make it any less meaningful or special though.


Fun fact: The <3 symbol is actually based on the shape of a woman's buttocks when bending over.

[Lovelife090994]

Love, like all emotion, is merely a chemical process in the brain. That doesn't make it any less meaningful or special though.


Fun fact: The <3 symbol is actually based on the shape of a woman's buttocks when bending over.

Yes I know. St. Valentine helped popularize it as a symbol of love and beauty. To me love is so much more than chemicals. Love is like a power that can be above all others. When you feel it, you know it.

[Horatio Nelson]

Love, like all emotion, is merely a chemical process in the brain. That doesn't make it any less meaningful or special though.


Fun fact: The <3 symbol is actually based on the shape of a woman's buttocks when bending over.

What a sad outlook on life.

[DisneyPrincess27]

The only love I have have felt/gotten was unconditional love, like from my little sister, parents(even though sometimes they have a funny way of showing it), and my cat.

[Gamma Male]

What a sad outlook on life.

How is this sad?

[Horatio Nelson]

How is this sad?

It sounds so cold and calculating. That's all.

[Plasma]

Why does it need a definition? If it's there and makes you feel good, why question it?

[Gamma Male]

It sounds so cold and calculating. That's all.

Huh. I don't think it sounds cold or sad at all. Regardless of whether you think love is caused by a chemical reaction or some divinely inspired woo, love is love. Love is beautiful. It's the feeling that matters, not the cause.

[Hollywood]

I don't know what love really is, I'll let you know if and when I do.

[Miserabilia]

It's kind of a big question, I think that what we call "love" isn't a single thing.
For example, in a lot of other languages, different types of love have their own name.
(Infatuation is an english word for a more specific type but it's not used commonly)

There is a descriptive kind of hyperbolic love , as in an exxageration of "like"
(I love cheese!)

A love for friends and family, because you have warm feelings for them,

and a love for your mate/partner which develops as a crush and then into Infatuation and then after a long period of being together and your relationship "surviving" challenges, a deep love which can probably be described as a combination of love for friends family and infatuation.

It's far more complicated than this though, but my point is; you can't really define it with something simple as it's more a collective thing.

[Sanctum]

here is the question? what makes u love someone? i think you should love some one only when they have benefit you or help you in some ways. like your love to your parents are true loves. but what does it mean when a boy falls in love with a girl? why should he even fall in love? i would not call it love but lust.

[Miserabilia]

here is the question? what makes u love someone? i think you should love some one only when they have benefit you or help you in some ways. like your love to your parents are true loves. but what does it mean when a boy falls in love with a girl? why should he even fall in love? i would not call it love but lust.

Love for a partner is probably the result of lust (in a way);
you love them because you want them to mate with you and have your children/give you children, and then you love them because you want to protect your offspring.

[Blood]

I believe the definition of love is going to be different for different people. Finding and labeling what love is to you is a personal decision.

[Luminous]

I'm not sure I know what love is. I mean, I love my family because I'm supposed to. I love my cats. But I don't know what that even means, really.

[sqishy]

I don't know yet. I have had lots of thinking about it over the past year and in the end I know myself to be little wiser and only with more options to define it, if I need to give defnitons to it. When I experience more in a relationship, I'm sure I'll be enlightened more :P

[Lovelife090994]

Thanks for the feedback guys and girls!

[Capto]

Love, like all emotion, is merely a chemical process in the brain. That doesn't make it any less meaningful or special though.


Emotions are electrical signals, not chemical processes.

[Melodic]

It's a really big definition and it's really different for others.. Some doesn't and will never know what true love is..

I find it to be where you'd do anything for them and it's 100 percent selfless.

[tundravortex]

the way i see love is that when two people want each other and EACH OTHER ONLY even if they go through hard and terrible times....no matter what happens...even the prisoners in jail for life get married sometimes(wifes)

[Gamma Male]

the way i see love is that when two people want each other and EACH OTHER ONLY even if they go through hard and terrible times....no matter what happens...even the prisoners in jail for life get married sometimes(wifes)

What about polygamy? Like, 3 person relationships?

[Lovelife090994]

What about polygamy? Like, 3 person relationships?

I thought you didn't believe in love? If not, what of polygamy? And polygamy is a touchy subject.

[Gamma Male]

I thought you didn't believe in love?
What!?! When on earth did I say that? Seriously, sometimes you make it out like I'm some cold, calculating, inhuman robot. :lol: Love(As well as every other emotion) is a chemical/ electrical process in the brain. But that doesn't make it any less real.
If not, what of polygamy? And polygamy is a touchy subject.

Yes, polygamy is a touchy subject. So?

I don't see what's to stop 3 people from loving each other the same way 2 people love each other. It's rare, but it happens.

[Lovelife090994]

What!?! When on earth did I say that? Seriously, sometimes you make it out like I'm some cold, calculating, inhuman robot. :lol: Love(As well as every other emotion) is a chemical/ electrical process in the brain. But that doesn't make it any less real.


Yes, polygamy is a touchy subject. So?

I don't see what's to stop 3 people from loving each other the same way 2 people love each other. It's rare, but it happens.

I thought you didn't believe in love when you said it was nothing but chemical processes. Polygamy love and traditional love are not rare as it seems.

[Gamma Male]

I thought you didn't believe in love when you said it was nothing but chemical processes. Polygamy love and traditional love are not rare as it seems.

Of course I believe in love. But I also believe in the science of neurology.

[Capto]

Of course I believe in love. But I also believe in the science of neurology.

*Neuroscience.

[Gamma Male]

*Neuroscience.

-_-


Okay. Of course I believe in love, but I also believe in neuroscience.
There, happy?

[Capto]

-_-


Okay. Of course I believe in love, but I also believe in neuroscience.
There, happy?

Definitely.

[tovaris]

its just eletrocemical reactions in your brain dude

[Twilly F. Sniper]

As said, love is a chemical reaction in the brain. But, there really isn't one type of love. Love is varied. There's love as in friendship, love as in sexual lust, love as in "puppy love", and true, passionate love for a boyfriend or girlfriend, or (whatever), or significant other. Really, there's quite a few definitions of one word. I'd conclude that love can really be defined as any sort of affection towards another person, no matter how much.

That's the simplest love can be defined, really.

Yes, the <3 symbol is based on the shape of a woman's buttocks when bent over. Fact of the day twice over.

[Typhlosion]

Nope, only four letters.

And really, anything can be defined in the biological sense.

[Lovelife090994]

Nope, only four letters.

And really, anything can be defined in the biological sense.

Somewhat true, but I was hoping to hear your thoughts on what love is.

[Typhlosion]

Somewhat true, but I was hoping to hear your thoughts on what love is.
Fair enough! :3

Love is what makes people make over-elaborate Alexandrine sonnets.
Love is the reason of life... literally as well.
Love is the force that glues two (or more) people together.
Love is what makes people's hearts stop...

Or is that passion?

Hell.

Uhm...

Damnit platonic love and passion and limerence.

[Lovelife090994]

Fair enough! :3

Love is what makes people make over-elaborate Alexandrine sonnets.
Love is the reason of life... literally as well.
Love is the force that glues two (or more) people together.
Love is what makes people's hearts stop...

Or is that passion?

Hell.

Uhm...

Damnit platonic love and passion and limerence.

See? Even your ideas mean something to me. Thanks for sharing :) !

its just eletrocemical reactions in your brain dude

Do you think it has another definition to you though?

[tovaris]

See?

Do you think it has another definition to you though?

yes love also induces stres

[Lovelife090994]

yes love also induces stres

And love takes work, but it is worth it for the feeling. Anything worth fighting for is stressful.

[tovaris]

And love takes work, but it is worth it for the feeling. Anything worth fighting for is stressful.

how can you fight for an eletrochemical reaction in ypur brain?

[Lovelife090994]

how can you fight for an eletrochemical reaction in ypur brain?

Oh never mind. You'll see what I mean soon.

[tovaris]

Oh never mind. You'll see what I mean soon.

you think love is somethung all powerful, whelits not its a coctailof hormones in your brain, designed to induce this fealing, since it was evolutionary benifiteary. As simpleas that, understand that love is nothing more and nothing less.

[Lovelife090994]

you think love is somethung all powerful, whelits not its a coctailof hormones in your brain, designed to induce this fealing, since it was evolutionary benifiteary. As simpleas that, understand that love is nothing more and nothing less.

No wonder you come off as cold. That sounds so depressing. Love heals and helps. It is the driving force of humanity.

[tovaris]

No wonder you come off as cold. That sounds so depressing. Love heals and helps. It is the driving force of humanity.

yes its true, our decisions are in 80 per cent, based on instinct and hormone coctails in our brain

[Lovelife090994]

yes its true, our decisions are in 80 per cent, based on instinct and hormone coctails in our brain

True, but even an animal can show love. Like a dog. I've a dog and she is very affectionate.

[tovaris]

True, but even an animal can show love. Like a dog. I've a dog and she is very affectionate.

so... You know we are wery closly related to dogs, and like them we alsolive in pacs... Of course they show and feel lowe (mostly loialty nut love also) because they are havin the very same reaction take place in their brain

[Lovelife090994]

so... You know we are wery closly related to dogs, and like them we alsolive in pacs... Of course they show and feel lowe (mostly loialty nut love also) because they are havin the very same reaction take place in their brain

So they are wired to be loyal which we see as love?

[tovaris]

So they are wired to be loyal which we see as love?

what are you not getting here, its an eletrochemical reaction n he brain, nothing more nothing less

[Lovelife090994]

what are you not getting here, its an eletrochemical reaction n he brain, nothing more nothing less

Okay, right, all electric, nothing more, nothing less.

[tovaris]

Okay, right, all electric, nothing more, nothing less.

glad you understand, anso dont forget the chemical reliced from hipotalamus and conoany to start the eletrical impulses

[Lovelife090994]

glad you understand, anso dont forget the chemical reliced from hipotalamus and conoany to start the eletrical impulses

Hmm, I actually learned something.