What is love?!?

Question

What is love?!?

Answer 1

Love is when nothing else in the world matters but that person.

Answer 2

when it happens you will know

Answer 3

It has alot of meanings and definitions...u can't say nuthin bout love...except unexpected.

Answer 4

Love is an emotion.

Everybody's idea of love is different.

Don't make the mistake of confusing lust with love.

Answer 5

love is the best thing that will ever happen to you! it's hard and sometimes painful to find but it is SO worth it! or so i hear :)

Answer 6

baby dont hurt me. dont hurt me.. no more

Answer 7

According to Robert Sternberg's research, "Love" is an emotion consisting of three components: intimacy, passion & committment.

Intimacy, the feeling close and connected to someone (developed through sharing and very good communications over time). Intimacy is what makes you want to share and offer emotional and material support to each other.

-Intimacy alone is Liking (true friendship without passion or long-term commitment)

Passion, the feeling physically aroused and attracted to someone. Passion is what makes you feel "in love" and is the feeling most associated with love. It also rises quickly and strongly influences and biases your judgment.

-Passion alone is Infatuation (passionate, obsessive love at first sight without intimacy or commitment)

Commitment, pledging to your self and each other to strengthen the feelings of love and to actively maintain the relationship. Commitment is what makes you want to be serious, have a serious relationship and promise to be there for the other person if things get tough.

-Commitment alone is Empty Love (decision to love another without intimacy or passion)

Romantic Love: Intimacy & Passion, no Commitment

-Lovers physically and emotionally attracted to each other but without commitment

-“As in a summer romance”

Companionate Love: Intimacy & Commitment, but no Passion

-Long-term committed friendships or a marriage in which the passion has faded

-I love you but I’m not IN love with you

Fatuous Love: Passion & Commitment, but no Intimacy

-Commitment based on passion with without time for intimacy to develop

-Shallow relationship such as a whirlwind courtship

Consummate Love: A complete love consisting of all three components

Answer 8

An absolute and unconditional acceptance!

Answer 9

I believe love is a wordless ancient dialogue that occurs between ourselves, another person, and life itself, occuring the same time the impermanence of everything yearns to exsist forever.  I heard from goat.

Answer 10

Everything!

Answer 11

You know that you have it,when you have no questions to ask on your mind.

When you can't find yourself you have it.

You loose it when you ask for more.

Answer 12

Love

Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.

The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[1] Others maintain that love exists but is undefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Love is one of the most common themes in art. An unfinished debate about the authenticity of love as other-regard began with Friedrich Nietzsche's charge that love is merely an ideology constructed by the weak to mask "resentment" about their lack of power. Critics of Nietzsche's view find gratuitous his assumptions that self-interest and the "will to power" overshadow all other concerns.

Contents

1 Overview

2 Types

3 Scientific views

4 Cultural views

5 Religious views

6 Definitional issues

7 See also

7.1 Human love

7.2 Other types of love (philias)

8 References

9 External links



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Overview

Love has several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something that one would die for (patriotism, pair-bonding). And in contrast to the definition at the top, frequently people use the verb "love" to indicate want or desire for themselves as opposed to for another. For example: "I love ice cream," or even "I love Mabel", does not refer to desiring wellness for ice cream, and it may not refer to desiring wellness for her/him, but rather to the desire for ice cream or for her/him felt by the speaker. The word also frequently indicates elevated appreciation or admiration: "I love that artist."

Love might best be defined as acting intentionally, in sympathetic response to others to promote overall well-being. Or to put it simply, "love responds intentionally to promote well-being" (Thomas Jay Oord). Love promotes overall flourishing, but often focuses on those close at hand.

Cultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. See the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, et cetera. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Many believe, as stated originally by Virgil, that "Love conquers all", or as stated by The Beatles, "all you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of 'absolute value', as opposed to 'relative value'.

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Types

Courtly love – a late medieval conventionalized code prescribing certain conduct and emotions for ladies and their lovers.

Erotic love – desire characterized by a focus on sexual desires.

Familial love – affection brokered through kinship connections, intertwined with concepts of attachment and bonding.

Fatherly love - devotion to one's children.

Free love – sexual relations according to choice and unrestricted by marriage.

Motherly love - devotion to one's children.

Platonic love – a close relationship in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated.

Puppy love – romantic affection felt between or as though between adolescents.

Religious love – devotion to one’s deity or theology.

Romantic love – affection characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire. Traditionally portrayed in the West as tragicomic, sad, joyful, and complex (e.g. I love Mabel).

Unrequited love – affection and desire not reciprocated or returned.

Covenant love - an unconditional decision of the will to place the needs and benefits of another person before oneself.

Unconditional Love - A voluntary practice of "knowing what someone truly is and caring for that to the exclusion of all else". Linked in some respects to philosophy of Non-duality and certain types of magic. Cited by Deepak Chopra and Marelin Thornton as a more "Wizardly" love, as compared to all other types.

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Scientific views

Main article: Love (scientific views)

Throughout history, predominantly, philosophy and religion have speculated the most into the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. Recently, however, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have begun to take centre stage in discussion as to the nature and function of love.

Biological models of s*x tend to see it as a mammalian drive, just like hunger or thirst. Psychology sees love as more of a social and cultural phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg explains that love has three different components. Intimacy is a form where two people can share secrets and various details of their personal life. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment on the other hand is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever. This factor of love is shown in empty love (ex. when two people stay together for the sake of their children). The last and most common form of love is simply s*x, or passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation love, as well as romantic love. There are probably elements of truth in both views — certainly love is influenced by hormones (such as oxytocin) and pheromones, and how people think and behave in love is influenced by one’s conceptions of love. Hence, from time immemorial, science, from naturalistic poetry to MRI neurochemistry, has debated the nature of love.

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Cultural views

Main article: Love (cultural views)

Although there exist numerous cross-cultural unified similarities as to the nature and definition of love, as in there being a thread of commitment, tenderness, and passion common to all human existence, there are differences. For example, in India, with arranged marriages commonplace, it is believed that love is not a necessary ingredient in the initial stages of marriage – it is something that can be created during the marriage; whereas in the United States, by comparison, love is seen as a necessary prerequisite to marriage.

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Religious views

Main article: Love (religious views)

Whether religious love can be expressed in similar terms to interpersonal love is a matter for philosophical debate. Religious love might be considered a euphemism, more closely describing feelings of deference. Religions may use the term love to express the devotion of a follower to a deity, who may be a living guru or religious teacher, as in the Bhakti traditions of Asia. This love may be expressed by prayer, service, good deeds, and personal sacrifice. Some traditions encourage the development of passionate love in the believer for the deity.

Reciprocally, many eutheistic followers may believe that deity loves the followers and all of creation. Many believe that this type of love that God has for all of creation, often defined as charity, is an unconditional and ultimate, or infinite, form of love.

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Definitional issues

Dictionaries tend to define love as deep affection or fondness.[2] In colloquial use, according to polled opinion, the most favoured definitions of love include the words:[3]

life - someone or something for which you would give your life.

care - someone or something about which you care more than yourself.

In common use, care refers to a mental or emotional state of predisposition in which one has an interest or concern for someone or something. To care for someone, may also refer to a disquieted state of mixed uncertainty, apprehension, and responsibility; or a cause for such anxiety. Caring for an object, such as a house, refers to a state of attendant maintenance; or may also refer to a state of charge or supervision, as in under a doctor’s care.

friendship - favoured interpersonal associations or relationships.

union

family - people related via common ancestry.

bond.

Love was defined in 2006 by F.V. Louvel as "Self-understanding of each other's desire". This is applicable, obviously, only in the context of a bipart relationship composed of hetero- or homo-sexual individuals.

Answer 13

LOVE IS THE FOLLY OF THE WISE AND THE WISDOM OF ALL FOOLS!!!!

Answer 14

Love is patient; love is kind

and envies no one.

Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;

never selfish, not quick to take offense.

There is nothing love cannot face;

there is no limit to its faith,

its hope, and endurance.

In a word, there are three things

that last forever: faith, hope, and love;

but the greatest of them all is love.

Answer 15

It is something you feel for people you care about.

Answer 16

Love has 3 rings, engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffer-ring

Answer 17

ME AND MY LOVER

Answer 18

You will know what is love when you leave Ottawa and stay away from people who use the tools of shame and guilt to control others.

Answer 19

God is love.

Answer 20

Basicly, it just luv.Whether it is hard or easy.luv is luv

Answer 21

When you care for someone else more than you care for yourself

Answer 22

Love is a four letter word that causes as much pain as it does happiness.

Answer 23

love is caring more about another person than you do about yourself.

Answer 24

self sacrifice of everything to others for no good

Answer 25

Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state.