How do you define love?
By Ciniful
@Ciniful (1587)
Canada
January 13, 2007 6:42am CST
"Love is the condition in which another persons happiness and well being are ESSENTIAL to your own."
So what do you think? This is the most accurate definition I've ever come across, and as far as I'm concerned, defines completely what the state of love actually is.
Do you agree? Disagree? Have your own definition that makes more sense to you?
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17 responses
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
14 Jan 07
I love your definition of love. It is putting that person before your own wants and desires, and not feeling like it's a burden, but a happiness to do this. That is a great post, and I am going to rate you a + for it. Thank you.
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@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
18 Jan 07
I gave you best answer moreso because ... from what I can tell, everyone attempted to make more of this than there was, and only attribute it to a love relationship in terms of couples, leaving out the emotion a person feels for their children, parents, friends, etc. Love is not confined to one type of relationship, and there has to be a basis involved in defining it ... I think the quote did that. When you cannot be happy unless the other person is happy and healthy, then it's love ... all other complications aside.
Thanks for the response :)
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@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
18 Jan 07
Thank you for the best response, I appreciate it. Your post was a very good one, and I rated you for it.
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@shiela15 (286)
• Australia
22 Jan 07
Love is patient and love is kind. Love is forgiving,love is not prone to anger. Love makes you the best of yourself to someone. It's the most reason you want to live longer.
@raveemenon (1071)
• India
16 Jan 07
Definitely I cannot disagree with you since that is the crux of the love. However I would go a bit extra and would add real love is mutual sacrifice ,understanding and appreciating each other.
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
18 Jan 07
If you're talking about love in terms of specific confines, yes. However, I wasn't. I was talking simply about 'love' ...the emotion as is. I love my husband, and that requires mutual sacrifice, understanding, apprecation and all the rest. However, I also love my children, and that relationship does NOT require mutual sacrifice in the least.
For the very simple emotion of love, I think the quote fits. When someones happiness is essential to your own, meaning you cannot be happy unless THEY are happy and healthy, then that emotion could very well be defined as love. That fits and transcends into every love relationship, whether marital, children, extended family, friendship, etc.
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@janejaa (412)
• Pakistan
15 Jan 07
I do agree with you. In my opinion this is the word that is the most complicated to explain. Everyone has a different opinion as in my words love is the most beautiful relation of the world but Im confused whther its life or only a part of life. I have my dicussion. plz have ur say there.
http://www.mylot.com/discussions/574996.aspx
Hope to hear from u soon.
@vivek_max_vivek (373)
• India
13 Jan 07
Very Shortly To Say
LOVE IS LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@habichuelo (3100)
• United States
30 Jun 07
...your avatar and your username seriously turn me onnn!!!,,who are you?
You have something that its getting me hipnotized,,,,do you work or deal with witchcraft???...
@phon4u (2215)
• Laos
21 Jan 07
Love is needed no teaching at all.
Before love ones, you have to love yourself first.
Love can be made into one.
Love is blind.
"Love" is much more profit than "hate"
@magarboyz (568)
• Nepal
19 Jan 07
well love is a pure thing so noother words could define it better than just love
@Eisenherz (2908)
• Portugal
29 Jan 07
Love is a basic dimension of human experience that is variously conveyed as a sense of tender affection, an intense attraction, the foundation of intimacy and good interpersonal chemistry, willing self-sacrifice on behalf of another, and as an ineffable sense of affinity or connection to nature, other living beings, or even that which is unseen. It manifests itself in feelings, emotion, behavior, thoughts, perception and attitude. It influences, underlies and defines major patterns in interpersonal relationships and self-identification.
@fishtayo (62)
• Philippines
22 Jan 07
Love is an affection to other express by deep emotional feelings and we become attach to this somebody or something. Love is much more than this also and very complicated when it comes between a couple, is a relationship build through give and takes and very hard to establish because lot of sort of things going on around us everyday.
@daotherhalf (456)
• Nepal
18 Jan 07
Love is blind!!!!!
It just drive people go crazy.....
It is da' highway to pain and suffer dat's how i feel abt luv...
but i don't know abt others
@loves_u_all (273)
•
16 Jan 07
'True love' is something like a wet cement. Once you stay on it, it's hard to leave and even if you try to leave, you will put a mark there 4 ever. Love is a feeling where affection and care takes the centre stage and there is no place for other things!!
