Can love exist without hate?

I think that love could exist if there was not hate. It would be a different kind of love because we wouldn't have hate to measure it by. Without the two extremes one extreme would not be as extreme. It would be muffled and understated. They say there is a thin line between love and hate but with out hate how would we know?

I do know that both exists. For instance one, cannot love the devil and love God at the same time, since the devil is evil and God is good. On a more profane basis, you can love a person and yet hate the things he does - such as keeping the toilet seat up. You can hate evil, although you pray for a person to change his mind. So both do exist.

Hi Aw! I think love and hate should not treated as opposite, as you would treat 'truth' and 'lie'. Do you mean to say that first we need to hate a person then love will grow? I do not think so. Else, we love a person and then we start hating him or her and thereafter again start loving him or her, then there would be more love? As far as am concerned, I do not believe in hating anybody. It could happen that I may not like certain traits in a person, however, that does not mean that I would stop loving that person. Loving someone is a positive trait and I believe in positivity.

Interesting... I was with someone who I thought I loved for a long time while never experiencing hate. But once I hated him, I do realized how much I did care for that person yet, I also have a better understanding of what I was lacking in our 'love'.

You are very right. Without darkness, we would not have been able to identify light. If there is not darkness how would we have identified light as light. So it is same for love and hatred. If there is not hatred, then we would not have been able to recognize love. If there isn't somebody who hates you, then we would not be able to identify who loves you..

Biblicaly speaking love should exist without hate because there's no such thing as love is hate.

Yes I think so. Because there are many who only have love in their life and others only hate. It isn't like the G-d and Devil battle.Where one Must be there to keep the balance. In fact many don't see them as polar opposites. The true opposite of love is indifference. So yes love can and does exist without hate.

I think love and hate is like two sides on a coin, if you have one, it seems impossible for you do not have another. But you can choose which one on the table. When you love some one, the one who hurt him/her will be the one you hate. Do not try to keep the hate away, but think less about it is ok enough.

Very interesting question. Are born loving or do learn to hate as our brains watch and observe others hating? I think as children we are loving creaters. I think hate is learned emotions and helps to clarify what love is... We all strive to love people but mental probrlems and environmental issues create hate... the same with sadness. Were we born to be sad.. I do not think so. Thanks Unique16

I think the two emotions are very related to each other and it will not be easily for a person (especially if there are in love) to feel a pang of hate every now and then. Love, like every other emotion, can change is the quickest of time and depending on the intensity of the emotion, it can turn for the best or the worst. Though hate isn't exactly the antithesis of love, it is usually the the common emotion associated with love as its counterpart. I guess intensity is something that love and hate have in similar. But they definitely reside within borders of each other. I don't really know (never a psychologist) but I believe that there are times and situations when love and hate don't and do mix. I think aiming for perfect love (love without hate or any other emotion) is not achievable unless you are a believer in perfect love stories or fairy tales. Humans are very complex creatures (that would an understatement) and are very capable of changing emotions within seconds. And even if they do experience love or hate, it is almost always not with a particualr single emotions.

I think love and hate are together. They can't be separated. If you feel so much love there is always a little bit of hate. But love is so huge that hate can't be noticed. Maybe this is like as the relation between body and spirit. Sometimes things of the body are dominating over the spirit and vice versa.

hi:) as they always says "love is the nearest thing to hate" if you really think about this you will be able to realize that it make sense, because in reality it is only the one you love so much, that can turn you to hate them so much.

Love and Hate is a complementing couple. Where one goes, other comes along. IT is difficult to appreciate something if the opposite of it does not exist. And it is a matter of BORING if everything is the same.

No. You need an opposite to occur in everything so you know love when you see it, and also so you have something to compare it to. If everybody had one mood - happy (never mad), only love (no hate), laughter (never tears), they wouldn't appreciate what they have, would take it all for granted, and never build real character. It's the good and the bad in our lives that creates inner strength, to fix faults/flaws in our personalities, learn to truly appreciate things because we know things could be worse. Life with limited emotions/thoughts/moods would be extremely monotone and would become very boring at a rapid pace.

I never thought about this. I guess you are right, maybe right, our human emotion can't have love without hate. We hate when our love turn around a corner. When our love just betray us, we develop hate. Just like love enshrouded with darkness all of sudden, and that is hate suddenly control our emotion toward another person. So, it just in a fleeting moment of it.

I suppose anyone would be able to comprehend love in such a circumstance, though one probably would say that should one cease to exist, the other shall follow suit, leaving only a sort of impassiveness you'd normally perceive from strangers on the street. Without hate, you'd probably still be able to appreciate someone else's virtues, which could still constitute as love. So, yeah, why not?

love and hate cannot be without the other.. they are like two sides of a coin. only if v have hatred towards sme1, naturally we will be liking some1... its all opposite poles attraction and the law of newton coincidence!!!