What is Love?

[proudmtatheist]

Wow there are some jaded people in this thread. Be a parent, then tell me love doesn't exist. There is more then just procreating.

[Erinome]

Wow there are some jaded people in this thread. Be a parent, then tell me love doesn't exist. There is more then just procreating.

A lot of us are parents. I am a mother of 3 children whom I love deeply, but I didn't think that was the kind of love we were discussing in this thread. I thought it was the icky kind of love that was the topic.

[Napoléon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_U6mWu1XQA

Learn to title threads...

YOU FUCKING BEAT ME TO IT!

What a tune.

[thesummerqueen]

I remain a beaten down but hopeless romantic. I've accepted it.

[Violet]

I remain a beaten down but hopeless romantic. I've accepted it.

And I didn't believe love to be anything more than a joke until Monday... now I know better.

Regardless of the process behind it: it exists... and it's wonderful

[ElDinero]

Yeah, the bleak outlooks being expressed here certainly do nothing to dispel that tired old notion of atheists having nothing to live for. It's especially disheartening to see a young, cool guy like searchingforanswers expressing such cynicism about it. There is hope, however. If Sae can take her wall down and acknowledge the brilliance of love and romance, anyone can.

Firstly, regarding the kids. I think most of us have been there, in that position where you first become really interested in someone and you're convinced it's going last forever, so I try not to judge. Even in hindsight, the feelings I felt for the first girl I really liked, at age 15, seems to me as powerful a surge of emotion I've ever felt in my life. It may have been more about the adrenaline, but it was strong stuff.

Anyway, what is love? Complicated, and everyone's is different. Don't really have much more to add on it than that. On romance, however, I have plenty to say. I love romance, and being romantic, and being romanced. Making gestures to someone you care very deeply for to make them feel like they're the only person in the world that matters to you and seeing the look on their face when you do something that nobody has ever done for them before is invaluable; I wouldn't be without it.

Any of you guys saying that love is some kind of charade that we should do away with: How did you get to this point?

[Welsh cake]

I kinda liked love.

Is that past tense I sense there? You're... no longer loved?

Wow there are some jaded people in this thread. Be a parent, then tell me love doesn't exist. There is more then just procreating.

Too many people being born for me to ever want to seriously have children. I raised my sisters, that's enough. With the population this high the quality of life is crap and no politician is willing to address this particular elephant in the room - things are going from red to brown on the quiet - it took me four months just to get diagnosed with IBS in this country. FOUR MONTHS.

[ElDinero]

Quality of life is crap in the UK? Behave. In comparison to where, when or what?

[HAYWARD]

True love is your soul’s recognition of its counterpoint in another!!
(WEDDING CRASHERS)

[ElDinero]

...what