A strong emotional bond towards something, usually a person, including strong feelings of care and affection, and a desire to keep a long-term positive relationship going with the loved one.
Love is often confused with sex, particularly due to the way society has sexualised shows of affection over recent decades. However, people may love parents and siblings, and may love close friends and cousins in much the same way- sexual relationships are different mainly due to the additional sexual element, not the love itself.
Love also shouldn't be confused with lust- attachment based on sexual desire alone, with no emotional attachment, is rarely sustainable and usually ends in a painful falling out with the person concerned.
Love can sometimes be abused for destructive purposes- people are expected to be prepared to make sacrifices for loved ones, so for example possessive partners may demand that one cuts off one's friends on request to "show" one's love for the partner.
The above caveats apart, love is a wonderful thing that is fundamental to keeping people happy and maintaining bonds within society.
Love is often confused with sex, particularly due to the way society has sexualised shows of affection over recent decades. However, people may love parents and siblings, and may love close friends and cousins in much the same way- sexual relationships are different mainly due to the additional sexual element, not the love itself.
Love also shouldn't be confused with lust- attachment based on sexual desire alone, with no emotional attachment, is rarely sustainable and usually ends in a painful falling out with the person concerned.
Love can sometimes be abused for destructive purposes- people are expected to be prepared to make sacrifices for loved ones, so for example possessive partners may demand that one cuts off one's friends on request to "show" one's love for the partner.
The above caveats apart, love is a wonderful thing that is fundamental to keeping people happy and maintaining bonds within society.
by fwe22 February 25, 2007
Get the lovemug. according to iago from athello, marely a branch of the main tree; Sex
its also used as a controversial justfication from the very things that quite possibly and ignorently kill abit of this world
its also used as a controversial justfication from the very things that quite possibly and ignorently kill abit of this world
shakespeare was the man how created emotions in the modern hunman filled inbreeds in todays society. love is probably the most controversial as it's used to justify; marriages, people being togheter, and oddly enough, the same justifcation for killings and rape.
by will, escott February 23, 2008
Get the lovemug. LOVE is a subjective matter as all other feelings. In my life LOVE is operationlized everyday with a new sense of; who I am, how I feel "around my man" and how he effects my life.
You know when s/he is down you can't help but be sad. Your happiness is tied with him/her. The ups & downs of life are incomplete without sharing with that one person. Being able to rely on someone with your most intimate decisions/thoughts/experiences without doubts. A word from her/him has the power of making your day brighter than the sun or send you hidding under covers eating a bucket of choclate ice-cream. Pretty much everything in life takes a new meaning.
I don't believe that love has boundries and can only be shared with a bf/gf or husband/wife. The tiles are limiting and create a false sense of belonging. Even though it does give you a sense of security as we are psychologically programmed to view/feel things a certain way by society.
You know when s/he is down you can't help but be sad. Your happiness is tied with him/her. The ups & downs of life are incomplete without sharing with that one person. Being able to rely on someone with your most intimate decisions/thoughts/experiences without doubts. A word from her/him has the power of making your day brighter than the sun or send you hidding under covers eating a bucket of choclate ice-cream. Pretty much everything in life takes a new meaning.
I don't believe that love has boundries and can only be shared with a bf/gf or husband/wife. The tiles are limiting and create a false sense of belonging. Even though it does give you a sense of security as we are psychologically programmed to view/feel things a certain way by society.
by AngeL from HeLL February 25, 2007
Get the lovemug. -the most amazing feeling ever known to nature.
-something that completely and utterly rules your life. When you TRULY love someone, they are on your mind 24/7.
-it is unconditional. it will NOT go away.
even if you get in a fight with him/her, you will still love them with every ounce of your being.
-an indiscribable feeling that overwhelms you with joy.
-the ability to be blinded by just the happieness you feel when you think of their name.
-something that completely and utterly rules your life. When you TRULY love someone, they are on your mind 24/7.
-it is unconditional. it will NOT go away.
even if you get in a fight with him/her, you will still love them with every ounce of your being.
-an indiscribable feeling that overwhelms you with joy.
-the ability to be blinded by just the happieness you feel when you think of their name.
by no what is YOUR name August 2, 2008
Get the lovemug. love is when yu can feel comfortable being around that person and no matter how cute or ugly yu look they stare into yur eyes like they dont even notice.
by santacruzBZ June 22, 2008
Get the lovemug. Woah MAN, when i look at that girl, I feel like i have a piece of apple in my throat! I love her, just wanna swallow her down!
by chellepatel November 21, 2011
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