BF2S Forums Define Love?

love     /lʌv/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[luhv] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, verb, loved, lov·ing.
–noun 1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. 
2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend. 
3. sexual passion or desire. 
4. a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart. 
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love? 
6. a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour. 
7. sexual intercourse; copulation. 
8. (initial capital letter) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid. 
9. affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor. 
10. strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books. 
11. the object or thing so liked: The theater was her great love. 
12. the benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God. 
13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing. 
14. a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L. 
–verb (used with object) 15. to have love or affection for: All her pupils love her. 
16. to have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (another person). 
17. to have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music. 
18. to need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight. 
19. to embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover. 
20. to have sexual intercourse with. 
–verb (used without object) 21. to have love or affection for another person; be in love. 
—Verb phrase22. love up, to hug and cuddle: She loves him up every chance she gets. 
—Idioms23. for love, a. out of affection or liking; for pleasure. 
b. without compensation; gratuitously: He took care of the poor for love. 

24. for the love of, in consideration of; for the sake of: For the love of mercy, stop that noise. 
25. in love, infused with or feeling deep affection or passion: a youth always in love. 
26. in love with, feeling deep affection or passion for (a person, idea, occupation, etc.); enamored of: in love with the girl next door; in love with one's work. 
27. make love, a. to embrace and kiss as lovers. 
b. to engage in sexual activity. 

28. no love lost, dislike; animosity: There was no love lost between the two brothers.

#1 it is.

Love is sustained by hard work.  It’s the decision to look out for the other person’s best interest and stay with them, every if you don’t like each other at times.  Passion, emotion, and physical intimacy are certainly by products of love and do their part to sustain love, but without the willingness to work at the relationship, love will disappear.

That “work” involves:
1.    Communication
2.    Willingness to compromise
3.    Willingness to deny personal desires or goals in favor of what other wants
4.    Honesty: telling the truth, even when it will get you in trouble – a relationship will crumble without trust

Last edited by Stingray24 (2006-12-26 14:15:22)

FFLink13 wrote:

how it is sustained?

In my experience a big part of it is Compromise.  You both have to be willing to make subtle changes to adapt to each others way of doing things and be accepting of the differences that you can't change.

I hate people who think emo has anything to do with love, don't go ruining love with that word. Love for me is when you can't stop thinking about that woman, weather you have anything in common or not, you can spend all the time in the world with her. You would do pretty much anything for her. She completes your life, you can't live without her.

/cheesy mode off.

Last edited by justice (2006-12-26 15:05:53)

He just wants to know what other peoples views and thoughts, chill....

I can tell that it's true love 'cause I can feel it in my pants.

Wow, great thread.
When I was young 16-22, I remember being heartsic and lonely. I banged a lot of girls, but never felt much of a connection. Around 23, I thought I knew what love was, and shacked up with some girls. I got two of them pregnant ( abortion is murder, deal with it,  and I am guilty X 2 ) before I was 24.
     About that time I got into rock climbing and that helped me achieve my goal of not hooking up with girls simply because they are eager, have a puss and a heartbeat. I struggled for a few years being single, living alone ( being miserable and lonely ) but becoming an accomplished climber, and more importantly, became familar with myself.

A good friend said the usual thing, and it's true, when you see the right girl, you'll feel it.

I met my wife, then a best friiends girlfriend when I was engaged to be married to this hard body nazi chick. We were shacking up, had our rings, but when my wife walked in the room all of that became meaningless.
I waited until she dumped him ( after returning from a climbing trip to Nepal ) until I kissed her, and then my fate was sealed.

She played in my band _{link to left} for a few years before we started in with raisen the youngins'.

Maintaining love requires sacrifice and commitment, which comes easy if you are part of a team that you fit in. When the wheel gains spokes ( youngins' ) it gets easier, or harder, depending on your luck.

It helps, and my best advice would be,  to have a lot of sex. 
And yes, married sex is the best.
I have had at least as many girls as crimson_grunt has karma _{not meaning to brag, just pointing out a small measure of authority on the subject} .

It helps if your wife is sexy as hell.

Archer wrote:

You know the answer, yet you post an emo topic about it.

Noice.

justice wrote:

He just wants to know what other peoples views and thoughts, chill....

Thankyou.

I did post this to find out what others thought, yes. I found something that answered the doubts:

"To be brave means to feel without fear. Sympathy is to care about another persons's suffering. Sacrifice is to suffer for someone. Honouring is to accept another person with his/her mistakes. Trusting is to believe that another person cares. Understanding is to forgive. And loving is all that."

Thanks again all.

Last edited by FFLink13 (2006-12-27 07:23:51)

twiistaaa wrote:

deeznutz1245 wrote:

When you realize that it is not that you would die for her, but rather you would die without her.

also found in obsessive people. and even if both partners felt that way who's to say they just aren't both crazy and were lucky enough to find someone who is as mad?

If something happened to my wife, my best friend, the mother of my child and my soul mate then I would certainly feel dead inside until the day I actually passed away. And if that makes me crazy then so be it. Love supersedes all other emotions my friend......including obsession.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/love

Been done, but I felt like giving the link.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-12-27 11:24:20)

Stingray24 wrote:

Love is sustained by hard work.  It’s the decision to look out for the other person’s best interest and stay with them, every if you don’t like each other at times.  Passion, emotion, and physical intimacy are certainly by products of love and do their part to sustain love, but without the willingness to work at the relationship, love will disappear.

That “work” involves:
1.    Communication
2.    Willingness to compromise
3.    Willingness to deny personal desires or goals in favor of what other wants
4.    Honesty: telling the truth, even when it will get you in trouble – a relationship will crumble without trust

well said -- but you ask what is love? You can't really describe love, it just happens.

deeznutz1245 wrote:

When you realize that it is not that you would die for her, but rather you would die without her.

He wins.