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How Do You Define Love?  

GrimmJackk 55M
26 posts
1/17/2011 8:41 pm
How Do You Define Love?

"Love is a Many Splendored Thing."

Okay... so maybe "splendored" isn't really a word. Sue me, it's the title of a movie.

The question of "love" comes up all the time. When should you say it? Do you have to mean it? Who should say it first? What does it really mean?

To me, there are different kinds of love. There is the love for family. No, you don't have to like your family. But, you should love them no matter what. You're stuck with them.

There is the love for friends. Sometimes this love is greater than the love of family, although no less important. Your friends are the family that you choose to have. Friendship should not be taken lightly, and neither should the love you have for those friends.

Then there is the ever so tricky, romantic love. To be completely honest, I loved my wife. I just wasn't "in love" with her. I asked her to marry me after we'd been together for seven years and it just seemed like the right thing to do. And, she really wanted to be married. I didn't really care.

I have been in love, once. It was the greatest thing in the world. There is nothing I wouldn't do for her. In fact, I did the hardest thing I could. I let her go. She loved me. She just wasn't in love with me like I was with her. I had to let her go to save the friendship we had and still have to this day.

So, what is true love? True love is giving someone the power to destroy you, and trusting them not to. True love is caring enough about someone else that you'd do anything for them, despite yourself, your wants, your desires.

I don't know if I'll ever find that again. But, that is what I'm looking for. Actually, I'm looking for it to be mutual. I want someone that is in love with me as I am with them. I deserve that.

So... How do you define LOVE? How do you know?

anallover4u34 54F  
76 posts
1/19/2011 12:16 pm

 I think you summed it up perfectly Jack.

True love is giving someone the power to destroy you, and trusting them not to.


GrimmJackk 55M
57 posts
1/18/2011 7:25 pm

 Safe... feel free.


lickmelightly 42F
411 posts
1/18/2011 9:15 am

 Strange a blog I would have blogged about myself. Seems everyones definition of love is different. A lot of people I think get confused between love and lust. Saying "I love you" to someone is not an easy thing for me. I will say there was one person who started to show me what perhaps love was. They cared about me, wanted to me, thought about me. Over time feelings grew, over time this person was someone I always thought about wanted to be with.
Love can not really be defined love is what is inside a persons heart and the person you let love you back.
Always be yourself


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