What does being in love mean to you? What is the significance of saying "I love you"?

Question

I say you can love anyone and everyone. your family, friends,etc etc. But what does being in "love" mean you?

Answer 1

It means, I won't hurt your feelings..for a period of time. But if something goes wrong, I will move on..you may get hurt.

Answer 2

Everything. To me it is everything. nothing less nothing more. Just perfect

Answer 3

Seems like a question that comes up a lot on this place....

Love is going to bed thinking about someone.  Love is waking up thinking of them too.  Love is the willingness to do anything for a person. You want to please the people that you Love.  You do not want to get anything in return, you simply Love them.

Love is patient and kind.  Love doesn't boast.  It isn't self serving.  It doesn't keep a record of what the person has done wrong.  

Love can be felt without saying a word.  Love is understanding.  Love is what you live and die for.  Love is something that you work at for a lifetime, and something that some may never find.  Love is something to be protected and cherished.  Love is worth fighting for.  Love is something that can have you on cloud nine one moment and on the floor the next.  Love is something that when you find it, you cannot let it go.  Love is accepting of everything.  

Love is one of the most amazing gifts from God.  Love is not a choice like others will tell you.  Love in it's purest form, true love needs no choice.  

Answer 4

I suppose it means that that person is important to you , and you value them. They mean a lot to you, and you're probably spiritually close to them.

Answer 5

It means letting go of yourself in total dedication to another. Of course love is just like zen and any other thing you cannot explain it, it can only be indicated or pointed at you have to experience it to know it. If you were blind and i told you what light was you would only have an idea of it not the experience that cannot be given. Saying i love you is saying i want to indicate to you that there is something here that is out of the ordinary something so great that these three words dont do it justice but i give you these three words knowing that you have the same feeling in you for me. Saying i love you between two people means they are in agreement they know the words are wrong but show that they have the same thing.

Answer 6

Being "in love", to me, means infatuation.

Loving someone and being "in love" with someone are two different things. Loving someone is when you care about someone at least as much as you care about yourself, while being in love is wanting to be with someone.

Saying "I love you", when it's heartfelt, can mean everything. Loving someone is the best. Hearing those words is wonderful too. It can come from anyone, friends, family, and the feeling you get when you hear it is inexplicably lovely. I've done some really strange things just to hear those words, and I'm not proud of them, but in the end they didn't mean anything at all because they weren't real.  

Answer 7

I don't think there's such thing as being 'in love'. I suppose it would mean putting your partner's needs before yourself. But it doesn't mean that this partner is the 'only person for you'. That's just naive, in my opinion. So many different people can be compatible.

Answer 8

It means nothing.  Actions taken during a relationship mean everything.

Answer 9

I "love" a lot. Trees, flowers,G-d, family. There is just really different degrees of love. Being in love I would say for me its for a romantic partner. Eskimos have many different names for snow, I wish we had more words for love.