at this point of your life ,what love means to you?

I was never in love as a teenager. Sure there were guys a i secretly had crushes on but never "in love" with. There was this guy named keith though that i went out with for a couple of years. he treated me really nice and never forced me to do anything that i didn't want to do, however i had one problem with him: he drank too much and i didn't want to deal with that. I thought i was in love with my ex-fiance' (notice i said ex). But the man i'm with now, showed me that i was not in love with my ex at all for he has showed me what being in love feels like and what it is. It is sacrifice, patience, faithfulness, being able to talk about any and everything, and rolling with the highs and lows and sticking it through, especially when there are more lows, and most of all, ignoring all of the people who are against you for that only makes the relationship stronger. My sweetie, my future hubby showed me what true love is.

Well, Love is a priceless gift to bestow on to another. It is one of the greatest instruments of nature and The powerful force of love is the bond and cement of society, the spirit and life of the Universe. It is the precious thing in the world. No matter how unhappy you are now or have been in the past, you still find happiness in the future, remember Love begins with you :) Take care

Love is the essence of God's creation. Indeed, God is love. All religions preach love because it is the ultimate goal of spiritualism, the ultimate rallying point of all religions. Love is the only religion enjoined of all humanity. In an attempt to attain universal love, humans designed religion as a vehicle. That explains the multiplicity of religions of various kinds and doctrines all over the world. Attain unconditional universal love and make Heaven! That is as far as spiritual love goes. This type of love is required from the cradle to the grave. In essence, it is a strong feeling of goodwill or goodness towards other humans and creatures. It is this type of love that should be referred to as blind, since it should apply to all irrespective of race, colour, gender, religion, etal. As for amorous love, it is a small sub-set of the spiritual universal love. It is limited in applicability and scope. Amorous love is equally strong towards the object, usually the spouse or partner. As a small child, one has a greater capacity for the spiritual universal love, as one smiles at and feel good with all, suspecting or hating none. As we grow older, we start being selective in the objects of our love - parents, siblings, relations, friends and so on. Later on still, our love objects narrow further until our attention and love predominate on spouse and nuclear family, while love for others dwindles. Further in our growing-up days, we mistake God's injunction -universal love- for religiosity. We start sleeping in churches and mosques in an attempt to "please" God, but forgetting to carry out His injunction by pleasing His creatures with love. A small child on the way to our church or mosque needs urgent help, but we feel that we are too late for church or mosque, and so cannot give love to the small creature. A time has come for us to realise that all the prophets of God preached love - universal love. Religions are just the various methods adopted by the followers to advance the cause of love. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, they lost focus and treated religion itself as the end in itself rather than the means to the end. What do we get? The opposite of universal love (universal hate) has now turned the world asunder.

Yeah, it changes as time as well as we grow up. In my age, I could still fancy the kind of love that I read on comics or manga more specifically but, reality isn't as nice like those stories I read. I kind'a agree that its more on sacrifice for the one you love and taking responsibility at certain aspects in the relationship so things work out even though it seems like it doesn't. There's no perfect partner as we always say but those involve do their best to get themselves into a somewhat perfect relationship... that too, I'm not certain.. ^_^;

At this point now that i'm 36 years of my age i feel that love is just a best mental coordination between two people they may be mother and son, mother daughter, fater son father daughter etc. and may be husband and wife.

Love is what comes once in a blue moon for my type. It came only after marriage. In our days love before marriage was taboo. So love comes after marriage for many of us. Adjustment and respect for each other should be there, if not marriages are doomed. I have had 31 years of married life and have been happy through out. Have seen ups and downs in life, but the love has got deeper through all of this. In the end it gives you the dignity and the respect you yearn for, from your partner... For me the one main sacrifice was being a stay at home wife, couldn't be independent. It gave me some bad experiences but otherwise was and is happy till now.

Maybe I'm too young to say what love means in my life.But I really appreciate your discussion because I understand it more than before.Various opinions make me more reasonable on this subject.I would keep following this discussion.

Yes, People change and love changes and if you are very lucky you will be able to change and still stay in love with one person. I was not so lucky in that area but I have to say that I was deeply in love with my husband for as long as it lasted. In fact anyone that I've been intimate with, i did love and HOPE for it to last...just cuz it didn't, doesnt necessarily mean it wasn't love. right?

hello love is a nice feeling, a feeling of joy, it is the highest fullfilment of everything. Without love there is no there is no spirit , no prosperity no growth so love is everything.

Love is an asset of mines. no one can take away my ability to love. When it comes to me, I love everybody. There is no one that I can't love at all. I love my enemies because they teach me to be a better person. Love does change over the years so I do agree with you on the but there is really no devine definition. Well yes it does. Love is an emotion that you feel for anyone of your surroundings if you are me. It is eay to love any and everyone

to tell you honestly for me love is so mysterious feelings that everyone experience..I dont have any regrets falling in love with my husband ..he is the first and the last.. we are married for 12 years already ..although theres updown in our relationship still we are together and going strong..now the realities of it is that theres a lot of sacrifice..the more you grow old the more love is become meaningful and you appreciated the love that you have....and yes loves changes through the years..and hope such changes for the better...hope that love should not be only for valentines ha ha ha ha..just be inlove..

When you are younger you have this idealic vision of love..it's beautiful and perfect, hearts and flowers all the way. I used to read tons of historical romance books and think thats really how it was. Then you get older....you get wiser...you see things how they really are. Love is messy, it's not perfect..it's difficult..To me love is loving someone not just inspite of their faults, but because of them....being there not just when things are easy, but when they are hard...sacraficing the things you want at times for the good of the other person or people. With my kids...love is unconditional..always and forever no matter what. It always amazes me how you can love someone you never met, but with my kids I did. Thats all that love is too me

Seeing that I am very young. To me love is everything. Love keeps me going. especially the way i feel about it when it comes from family or a girlfriend of mines. At times I can not lie love hurts. It is tough but every one deserves to be loved whether they are good or bad people.

At present, love means to me: willing to accept that the person of your affection is not perfect and will make mistakes. It means accepting that you will be hurt, humiliated and embarrassed by that person at some point in time. It means accepting that you are taking a chance by being with that person and you are willing to go that extra mile without giving up. I love my boyfriend unconditionally but sometimes I feel to hit him with a book at the back of his head. Love also have to be maintained on a continual basis, it takes energy and is as challenging as any other demanding job. But you have not lived life if you have never loved. Are you willing to take the gamble?

hey tisya even i think tat love is understood as n wen d time passes by with d relationship............even i didnt think tat being in love is so wonderful.........n my relationalship grew as v moved apart........it was only den ,wen i realised how much i love my guy...........as he out 4 his meetin 4 abt 10 days...... n it ws 4 d 1st time ever after v got along 2gether tat he was goin away 4m me 4 such a long time......... oh i jst cant 4get those days.......at d same time they worth cherishing.......... oh my god i think i hav told a lots abt myself now n bugged uall........ but love is sumthg u hav 2 experience it 1ce n if u r 5n with it den u r in heaven..........everythg around feels 2b gr8.........