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What is the definition of romantic love?

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What is the definition of romantic love?
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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 1:04 am (This post was last modified: July 25, 2018 at 1:12 am by energizer bunny.)
(July 24, 2018 at 11:00 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Romantic love means you haven't been with the person long enough to see him/her fart, scratch their arse or pick their nose in public.

And if you're still with them after that, then it's true love.   (and you've compromised your life. aka marriage)

Or true love of money.  Big Grin If they're rich.
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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 1:19 am
It is romantic love when you forget her birthday AND your anniversary in the same year and she doesn't epoxy your dick to your stomach while you're asleep.

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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 1:22 am
(July 25, 2018 at 1:19 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It is romantic love when you forget her birthday AND your anniversary in the same year and she doesn't epoxy your dick to your stomach while you're asleep.

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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 3:12 am (This post was last modified: July 25, 2018 at 3:27 am by Fake Messiah.)
This is romantic love:

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When you love and admire somebody with not just your heart but your genitals too. When you want to consume that person in all the ways possible.


This is gay romantic love:

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When you are an older male and have a young, hot intern that admires you, values your advice and doesn't have sex with his own wife for 3 years for you and you just can't keep your hands off him and then when you're really alone you take his anal temperature with your dick.
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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 1:00 pm (This post was last modified: July 25, 2018 at 1:01 pm by Angrboda.)
Romantic love involves a degree of intimacy in the sharing, a certain interdependence, and reorienting of the general spin of one's world around the other that other relationships like friendship and family do not possess.

More than that, I got nuthin'.
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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 1:06 pm
It's just an emotion–a sentiment, if you will. People try to define it by what it means to them or what evokes it in them. However, it's different for everyone, so you can't really define it that way. You know it when it's there, and you feel it's absence when it's not.
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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 1:08 pm
(July 25, 2018 at 1:00 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Romantic love involves a degree of intimacy in the sharing, a certain interdependence, and reorienting of the general spin of one's world around the other that other relationships like friendship and family do not possess.  

More than that, I got nuthin'.

And it has to be both ways, otherwise you end up trying to kill presidents just to impress that "special someone".



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RE: What is the definition of romantic love?
July 25, 2018 at 3:33 pm
(July 24, 2018 at 2:17 pm)Die Atheistin Wrote: Does romantic love truly exist?


Romantic love is just the label people put on a set of feelings they have for other people. Some people may not put the same label on a set of feelings as other people do.

The feelings are created by chemical processes in the brain.

So, yes, the label, "romantic love", put on the feelings created by the chemical processes exist.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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