Love me?

"Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" and has many definitions in the English language. No, I don't think all love needs to be reciprocal but in a relationship/marriage, yes! It definitely must be or both parties will be miserable to varying degrees.

Morning P1ke Love is one of those words that can go on and on..Stories of Love,songs, movies and one movie star with that as her middle name! I Love to Love you Baby..Donna Summers..Loved that song Now we have never met in person..we have talked on the phone but I Love you..I love your personality, the way you treat others and How much you talk of your family! To me those are what Love is..actions and feelings and of course I am a sucker for men!!

Well, there's "love" and there's "LOVE." I think that if I "love" someone, it doesn't matter if they "love" me back. Heck, I don't even care if they don't know I'm alive. I "love" David McCallum. I would really like to meet him. But if I did, I know I wouldn't rush up and hug him or anything. I would be polite, all those things you have to do to stay in someone presence as long as possible so to enjoy being there. And I would glow from it when I left and I would glow from it every time I thought of it afterwards. However, if I "LOVE" someone, then I would HOPE they would "LOVE" me back. I can't MAKE them "LOVE" me. But that "melt when we see them" sort of love is what I'm talking about here, you can only hope that they feel that way too. It sounds like you are blessed that way with your wife - lucky LUCKY p1kie!

all i can say about this is people should know that we "fall in love by chance" and we stay in love by choice. :)

I love different people differently. I love my son and my husband in a different manner, but I love them deeply and forever. I love my best friends and family differently and deeply. There is no real definition of love in my opinion. Everyone feels it and sees it differently.

WOW! Love thts one topic which is like an ocean... I for one didnt really believe in falling in love till I actually fell in love... I think love is something more than just an emotion or that feeling of butterflies in your stomache when u see that special someone... Coz if thats all it is then its a temporary fleeting thing.. Real love is something very hard to find in this world which follows the concept of 'Survival of the Fittest'... Which to me is just another way of saying I love me first... And if a person loves their own self too much then they don't have time to love anyone else and if they are in a relationship then maybe they dont realise it yet but their motives for being in that relationship are wrong... Love is much much deeper its tht feeling that I'd rather die than let anything happen to the person I love... True love is Self less...

I like to think that I am indeed a lover :) But surely there are different ways of loving, or maybe that is not love but admiration like you say - who knows. If you say I love pizza, does that really mean you love it, or you admire it or is it something else completely ? I am with @PhredWreck on this one as there are too many definitions for the word.

Love is a many meaning word but when I love in any of its forms, it is for as long as I am able. Am I always loved in return, no. Do I expect it? No. I don't see myself worthy of love, which I know is a fault but one I haven't learned to cure. When I gain the love of a friend or see an extra simple love of my child or hear a loving phrase from an unexpected place ( "you helped me when I was in a dark place" is one of the deepest felt one that I received from a casual acquaintance) I am often surprised and grateful for the gift. I guess it is all in how you feel it and we are all different.