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what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 9:26 am
Two guys have told me they loved me but weren’t in love with me. Why is it necessary to be in love? What does being in love do for a relationship? Even though these guys claimed they weren’t in love with me, I couldn’t see what was missing in the relationships I had with them.
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 9:53 am
Don't know, but perhaps it means that people today are too spoiled and that dating industry is over complicating people's relationships and expectations, that they don't even know what to think.
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 10:00 am
I love my friends. I’m not in love, with my friends. In my case, it was just a way of saying “let’s be friends”.
Don’t know about your dudes.
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 10:05 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2019 at 10:06 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
'Love' is one way. 'In love' is reciprocal. I can love someone even if the very thought of me makes them want to vom. I can't be 'in love' with someone who doesn't feel the same way about me.
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 10:14 am
Love= dinner, a movie and hanging out with someone.
In love = there's a blowjob component.
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 11:20 am
(August 29, 2019 at 10:14 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Love= dinner, a movie and hanging out with someone.
In love = there's a blowjob component.
I would have guessed the opposite. Love=sexual attraction to another person, In Love=was willing to put up with the other person for the other 23 hours, 45 minutes of the day without the promise of sex.
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 11:49 am
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2019 at 11:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Using the idea that love is a state where someone else’s happiness means more than your own, being in love would be the state of actively seeking out their happiness. Feeling compelled, rather than concerned.
- the difference in intensity between
“If I could do anything for this person I’ll do it”
and
“I’m going to devote a significant amount of my ability and resources to finding or manufacturing happiness for this person”
- or maybe the difference between being where you are, and coming to you wherever you are.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 11:54 am
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From my experience, it seems like "in love with someone" really is just a nicer way of saying "bloody obsessed about that someone"
Loving someone, on the other hand, sounds more genuine.
That said, regarding the OP, I can't say. I can only tell you how I see these terms.
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 12:13 pm
"Like" can survive longer than "love".
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RE: what Does it Meam to be InLove?
August 29, 2019 at 12:35 pm
(August 29, 2019 at 9:26 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: Two guys have told me they loved me but weren’t in love with me. Why is it necessary to be in love? What does being in love do for a relationship? Even though these guys claimed they weren’t in love with me, I couldn’t see what was missing in the relationships I had with them.
I suppose its intensity.
Love can be warm and comforting being in love is passion, excitement and bad decisions.
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