Love..what does it mean to you?
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623 wrote...
I saw a girl wearing a shirt today that said "Love is being stupid together." Fair enough.thats a clever shirt
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Love is a choice.
Love is a feeling.
Love is an act.
Liking = intimacy
Infatuation = passion
Fatuous love = passion + commitment
Empty love = commitment
Companionate love = intimacy + commitment
Romantic love = passion + intimacy
Consummate love = passion + intimacy + commitment
There are many kinds of loves and many different ways to express it, but only some of us will be lucky enough to experience "true love" or consummate love. True love, in my opinion, is when no matter how bad things might get, it isn't as bad as the thought of not being with that person. It is when you not only feel love them, but choose to love them.
Love is a feeling.
Love is an act.
Liking = intimacy
Infatuation = passion
Fatuous love = passion + commitment
Empty love = commitment
Companionate love = intimacy + commitment
Romantic love = passion + intimacy
Consummate love = passion + intimacy + commitment
There are many kinds of loves and many different ways to express it, but only some of us will be lucky enough to experience "true love" or consummate love. True love, in my opinion, is when no matter how bad things might get, it isn't as bad as the thought of not being with that person. It is when you not only feel love them, but choose to love them.
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SolidShark wrote...
Spoiler:
Played Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town (Gameboy Advance), Loved it. Reached Year 10 and got horribly tired. Married Karen, though I would have liked Elli or Anne more, so cute. :3
Ah, enough humbug from me:
OT: Love is also to not hurt, no matter how frusturated one is at the time ._. In both figurative and the literally meaning. In many relationships, there is a damn abuse in marriages. Sometimes it's a brute who beats his up wife, oher times are wives which wear down their "husband" economically, physically, and literally (insulting them, calling them rude names, etc.). That, is damn scary.
I have that game as well, I usually go for popuri.
Thats quite interesting
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In my opinion, romantic love in real life is just a more advanced form of animal mating instincts. Humans are technically animals, except we can think and feel on a deeper level compared to other animals. Animal reproductive instincts determine which specimen will be chosen as a mate. Possible mates are determined by physical attractiveness and if there is a good chance of reproduction. For humans, we choose our mates based on certain criteria such as physical attractiveness, personality, etc. But these are just things that make reproduction with another person more comfortable and pleasant. If we find a person with a pleasant personality and physical attractiveness, there is a higher chance of marrying and/or reproducing with that person compared to a person we feel is unsuitable. In that sense, love is very similar to animal reproductive instincts. Humans determine their mates based on their own preferences, so what we find attractive is based on our instincts.
That's what real life "romantic" love means to me. Love between family and friends is different in my opinion. I care about the well-being of my family and friends and I trust them to a certain extent depending on the individual. However, I'm not able to feel love, nor do I know how to show love. I just do things and react in certain ways based on society's expectations of how love between family is supposed to be. There's probably something wrong with me because I can feel other emotions, except love, just fine.
Some of you might think I'm a fucked up person with a twisted sense of what love is. I wouldn't disagree with that. I'm just an anti-love kind of person.
That's what real life "romantic" love means to me. Love between family and friends is different in my opinion. I care about the well-being of my family and friends and I trust them to a certain extent depending on the individual. However, I'm not able to feel love, nor do I know how to show love. I just do things and react in certain ways based on society's expectations of how love between family is supposed to be. There's probably something wrong with me because I can feel other emotions, except love, just fine.
Some of you might think I'm a fucked up person with a twisted sense of what love is. I wouldn't disagree with that. I'm just an anti-love kind of person.
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SolidShark wrote...
LustfulDevil wrote...
SolidShark wrote...
Spoiler:
Played Harvest Moon Friends of Mineral Town (Gameboy Advance), Loved it. Reached Year 10 and got horribly tired. Married Karen, though I would have liked Elli or Anne more, so cute. :3
Ah, enough humbug from me:
OT: Love is also to not hurt, no matter how frusturated one is at the time ._. In both figurative and the literally meaning. In many relationships, there is a damn abuse in marriages. Sometimes it's a brute who beats his up wife, oher times are wives which wear down their "husband" economically, physically, and literally (insulting them, calling them rude names, etc.). That, is damn scary.
I have that game as well, I usually go for popuri.
Thats quite interesting
Me, I didn't like popuri's greedyness.
Mary wasn't attractive
Anne was cute, but tomboys aren't related to my interests.
Elli seemed only to want a child, and that was her general goal in my opinion.
Karen was at least stereotypical and cute, even with her failures at cooking and flaw of drinking too much.
OT: for me, love is... A way to spend one's life, with an opportunity to make her smile at any moment you can. "I love you" is a phrase not to be said as a routine before someone leaves/departs, but it's to be said in the least expected moments: during a random hug, a cuddle, when eating together. I think some people marry with a feeling of need to marry or temporal infatuation. One must keep oneself in love with that person, not expect that person to love us for one to remember them we love them.
Thus, get back out there and give your gf a call, invite her for a meal or ask what she wants to do tommorow.
POpuri was the hottest
After her I usually picked Anna
I likE that and I agree with you
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erogamer wrote...
In my opinion, romantic love in real life is just a more advanced form of animal mating instincts. Humans are technically animals, except we can think and feel on a deeper level compared to other animals. Animal reproductive instincts determine which specimen will be chosen as a mate. Possible mates are determined by physical attractiveness and if there is a good chance of reproduction. For humans, we choose our mates based on certain criteria such as physical attractiveness, personality, etc. But these are just things that make reproduction with another person more comfortable and pleasant. If we find a person with a pleasant personality and physical attractiveness, there is a higher chance of marrying and/or reproducing with that person compared to a person we feel is unsuitable. In that sense, love is very similar to animal reproductive instincts. Humans determine their mates based on their own preferences, so what we find attractive is based on our instincts.That's what real life "romantic" love means to me. Love between family and friends is different in my opinion. I care about the well-being of my family and friends and I trust them to a certain extent depending on the individual. However, I'm not able to feel love, nor do I know how to show love. I just do things and react in certain ways based on society's expectations of how love between family is supposed to be. There's probably something wrong with me because I can feel other emotions, except love, just fine.
Some of you might think I'm a fucked up person with a twisted sense of what love is. I wouldn't disagree with that. I'm just an anti-love kind of person.
I dont think you are fucked up, I know a few people like you
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The greatest hinderance to the fulfillment of ambition, the bane of success and a problem I regrettably have experienced.
Edit: I've been drinking, so, I may be a touch cynical.
Edit: I've been drinking, so, I may be a touch cynical.
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Ok, my erudite manga romantics- with Jung (my personal fave), Freud, and Kinze, I see we're bringing out the big guns on this subject. I'll add another: In the landmark decision, Jacobellis v Ohio (1964), that allows sites like this to exist in the USA, US Supreme Court Justice Stewart wrote in his concurring opinion that while it was difficult to define, where obscenity/hard-core pornography was concerned "I know it when I see it." Well, THAT is how I feel about love, ironically. I'll know it when I see it. I just haven't seen it yet.
