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86510

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Los Angeles, California, US

i've been wondering?

how do you know if you're in love? anyone?
what's it's like to find that "special one"?
or just knowing you found him/her?

what's that feeling feel like? how do you know it's that feeling? or not just a "crush" or what have you.


what makes 'love' love?
what's that feeling feel like? how can you tell?

im repeating myself, but i would really like to know.

anyone's replies and opinions are welcomed.
please help a confused little girl. smile

- Jonella

Jan 12 06 12:54 am Link

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safiraangel

Posts: 295

Killeen, Texas, US

If you have to ask if it is then it isn't. If it is then you just know. smile

Jan 12 06 12:57 am Link

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Nihilus

Posts: 10888

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Simply, you have the only answer to that question. As 'love' is a concept moulded by each individual, it's not a matter of if you're in a situation where you feel strongly enough for someone, but rather a matter of if what you're feeling (and ideally, the investment you have in it) is equal to that of the other person(s) involved.

Jan 12 06 12:58 am Link

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ShotsByMate0

Posts: 229

New York, New York, US

I get a large lump in the front of my pants and I have visions of her naked body running through my mind at all hours of the day.... that's love.

Jan 12 06 01:01 am Link

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Horsie Girl

Posts: 1453

Santa Rosa, California, US

Love is when your boy/girl friend and look like a total dork/idiot and you still claim them without shame.

Love is when you would willing put yourself in danger for them.

Love is when you don't care what material "things" you have, as long as you have the one you love with you.

Love is getting upset and fighting with them, but still wanting to stay.


I'm sure there is more, but this is what I feel love is.

Jan 12 06 01:01 am Link

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Horsie Girl

Posts: 1453

Santa Rosa, California, US

Digital Al wrote:
I get a large lump in the front of my pants and I have visions of her naked body running through my mind at all hours of the day.... that's love.

No hun, that is lust!

Jan 12 06 01:02 am Link

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Nemi

Posts: 27413

Jamaica, New York, US

Love sucks like a hooker on a friday night.

Jan 12 06 01:07 am Link

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Jenniffer Lindsay

Posts: 9

San Jose, California, US

Love is seeing your future and that person together. Its knowing that your life and dreams would be incomplete and worthless if that one person was not there to share them with.

Jan 12 06 01:13 am Link

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James Jackson Fashion

Posts: 11132

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Love is
like finding
a parking space
in the city

It's hard to find
and once you're there
you don't want to leave
for anything

Jan 12 06 01:18 am Link

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Alexei Fomin

Posts: 944

Ypsilanti, Michigan, US

Horsie Girl wrote:
Love is when your boy/girl friend and look like a total dork/idiot and you still claim them without shame.

Love is when you would willing put yourself in danger for them.

Love is when you don't care what material "things" you have, as long as you have the one you love with you.

Love is getting upset and fighting with them, but still wanting to stay.


I'm sure there is more, but this is what I feel love is.

I'd like to add:

the pain your gut that gets more and more intense every hour that your love is away

being willing to not just put yourself in danger physically, but also liberally (as in willing to do something illegal such as kill or maim someone for this person)

hour long phone conversations at 4 in the morning

taking 15 minutes to say good bye when you just called to ask if she wanted chocolate chip or brownie fudge ice cream from the grocery store.

not giving a damn if you sound like an idiot speaking in words that you and she have pretty much just made up (ie snuggleupagus, etc)

you have long arguments on who is snugglier you (her argument) or her (your argument)

going to the bar every night is no longer a priority, as long as you can call, or preferably see her

you can't remember the last time you had to take your anger out on something

Jan 12 06 01:22 am Link

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lll

Posts: 12295

Seattle, Washington, US

Jenniffer Lindsay wrote:
Love is seeing your future and that person together. Its knowing that your life and dreams would be incomplete and worthless if that one person was not there to share them with.

This is "need", not love.  Love is not there to complete one.  One should be complete without any one else.  Love is a bonus of a complete life.

Jan 12 06 01:33 am Link

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Vintagevista

Posts: 11804

Sun City, California, US

Love is the ending of your individual version of "Me" and the joyful rise of "We"

The knowing that when forsaken by all others - a person will not be alone in this world.

For a month - or a lifetime - - Doesn't make a damn, it's still love.



And sadly, you can most certainly know when you look backwards -  and mourn its loss, as a lifetime unfulfilled.

Jan 12 06 01:35 am Link

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Michael Gundelach

Posts: 763

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Love? Bio-Chemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate...

Jan 12 06 01:38 am Link

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ShotsByMate0

Posts: 229

New York, New York, US

Horsie Girl wrote:

No hun, that is lust!

Really? Then lust kicks ass!

So what is this love you speak of? is it opening a pint of Haagen Dasz and inserting that first spoonful into your mouth?

Jan 12 06 01:38 am Link

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ShotsByMate0

Posts: 229

New York, New York, US

Nemi wrote:
Love sucks like a hooker on a friday night.

hookers raise prices on fridays and sunday mornings...

Jan 12 06 01:40 am Link

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Horsie Girl

Posts: 1453

Santa Rosa, California, US

Digital Al wrote:
Really? Then lust kicks ass!

It sure does!!!

Jan 12 06 01:48 am Link

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Nihilus

Posts: 10888

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Digital Al wrote:

hookers raise prices on fridays and sunday mornings...

Mental note: Schedule myself off on... *looks around*

...what?!?

Jan 12 06 02:10 am Link

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John Pringle

Posts: 1608

New York, New York, US

Funny trip is that Love is suppose to happen between us all.
Getting laid is something you do with that person you are (personally- culturally) connected to...
But the kicker is that (LOVE) is not bangin, or sharing spit and other bodiy fluids.
Sex and/or petting just happens within the relationship as an extra side dip... Its not the whole thing...

so, when are you in love?
Well, you'll know.
It keeps U up at night.
Sometimes it drains your fluids and sweat.
Sometimes it stresses you out.

But most of that is the fantasy of thinking how you want your (selfish) significant other to fill you up, may not be what they want to fill you with...
So you try to change them, and your first argument is born... Then you compromise and call their best (your second best desire), BC a (real) lover would be able to read your mind and turn their body parts the right way right at the exact moment... Then you wake up and realize that your the only one in bed and your lovely is asleep in their own home... So you call them and drum up a conversation and get all hot and heavy until you sweat again.,.. OK< enough said...
tongue
Dont forget to change the sheets in the morning...
smile

Jan 12 06 02:22 am Link

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Pat Thielen

Posts: 16800

Hastings, Minnesota, US

I know not of this "love" thing you speak. I think its a story parents tell their children to frighten them out of becoming game show hosts or reality show creators.

  Yeah...

Jan 12 06 02:24 am Link

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Brandy Engle

Posts: 257

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Love is hard to describe.

I like Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. (on Love.)

http://www.katsandogz.com/onlove.html

My thoughts pretty much feel the same. It's wonderful but is harsh. I don't think Love is easy at all, but when you are in love, all seems right and good. I dunno if that's a great description. It's a lot of work and a lot of fun and stuff like that.

Jan 12 06 02:54 am Link

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- null -

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https://www.tennscreen.com/tips/matrix/oracle.jpg
"I wanna tell you a little secret ... Being the One is kind of like being in love. No one can tell you you are in love, you just know it. Through and through. Balls to bones."

Jan 12 06 02:58 am Link

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Lady Bronze

Posts: 3775

Los Angeles, California, US

Jonella wrote:
i've been wondering?

how do you know if you're in love? anyone?
what's it's like to find that "special one"?
or just knowing you found him/her?

what's that feeling feel like? how do you know it's that feeling? or not just a "crush" or what have you.


what makes 'love' love?
what's that feeling feel like? how can you tell?

im repeating myself, but i would really like to know.

anyone's replies and opinions are welcomed.
please help a confused little girl. smile

- Jonella

When it gets to that point where I can see him as being a great father for my future children, and husband material with an impeccable sense of integrity and loyalty..someone who, if he doesnt pop the question first, I will.

I have only felt love like that once. EVERYTHING is different. Making love=different. Saying nothing at all while you sit and cuddle=different. Intellectual stimulation=different.

For me, it was that one man who had been the only human being EVER to humble me just by standing in my presence.

He was me..only....better than where I was at the time. He exemplified every great quality I love about myself, multiplied by about 100..minus everything negative (at the time)..it was extremely humbling, in an adoration sort of way.

Nothing, I repeat NOTHING impresses me....He did.

Ahh..memories.

2 years have past..still wish him the best and wonder how he is, daily.

Jan 12 06 03:00 am Link

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BCG

Posts: 7316

San Antonio, Florida, US

Nemi wrote:
Love sucks like a hooker on a friday night.

Thats pure poetry

Jan 12 06 06:03 am Link

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Lens N Light

Posts: 16341

Bradford, Vermont, US

Add up all the time you spend thinking about your other, and all the time you spend thinking about yourself. If the preponderance of your thought is about your other, you are in love.

Jan 12 06 08:07 am Link

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Christopher Wright

Posts: 11854

Lansing, Michigan, US

I think it happens for people in different ways at different times. It can be one you are with someone and the rest of the world doesn't matter but it also matters all that much more. Or in a given day if you think about the one you are with more then you think of yourself. When you can see only the person inside and what she looks like in the morning without make up and bed head doesn't even matter. I think there a thousands of ways to know when you are in love because it is different for everybody.

Jan 12 06 08:35 am Link

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Model Sarah

Posts: 40987

Columbus, Ohio, US

There are so many different types of love.

I have experienced a lot of them. The lust-love is the most powerful but isnt always the best one.

christ, yeah, thats the powerful one...

dammit.

Jan 12 06 09:47 am Link

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Chili

Posts: 5146

Brooklyn, New York, US

'you'll never know for sure if you are in love, but you'll always know for sure if you are not'

Jan 12 06 11:28 pm Link

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Aswad Issa

Posts: 298

Brooklyn, Indiana, US

How will I know when its love? I can't tell you but it lasts forever...

Jan 12 06 11:41 pm Link

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Horsie Girl

Posts: 1453

Santa Rosa, California, US

Hartsoe wrote:
Love? Bio-Chemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate...

I want large quantities of chocolate!

Jan 12 06 11:44 pm Link

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Hamza

Posts: 7791

New York, New York, US

Love is a disease!!

It's like mad cow disease, it makes you Crazy! And then it kills you from the inside out...

Jan 12 06 11:58 pm Link

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OughtToBeShot

Posts: 50

Greenport, New York, US

Aswad Issa wrote:
How will I know when its love? I can't tell you but it lasts forever...

Damn.... beat me to it.

Jan 13 06 12:13 am Link

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Brian Diaz

Posts: 65617

Danbury, Connecticut, US

Hartsoe wrote:
Love? Bio-Chemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate...

That's true until somebody needs a kidney.  wink

Jan 13 06 12:21 am Link