I once watched a documentary about teaching Philosophy to 3 year old children. One little girl was asked what love is, and she gave the most beautiful answer: “love is forgiving someone even if they hurt you”.
“No matter what happens, we’ll figure it out together.” Operating as a team where everyone is equal and matters. Curiosity and compassion instead of judgment and contempt. Unconditionally respecting their autonomy even when you don’t agree with or like their choices, while having the safety to be honest about what you really think and call them out when they need to hear it. Radically accepting them and meeting them where they’re at. Not needing to censor or shink yourself. Showing up and helping when they’re in need. Showing with your actions that they are not alone. Letting them feel and be whatever they feel and are. Caring, supporting, and truly rooting for what’s best for them even if it doesn’t include you. Forgiving them when they mess up. Committing to learning and adapting how to be there for them and be a team with them in new and evolving ways as you change and grow as people.
Love is the feeling that u can’t live without your love ones
Love is when u would give up your life without question for your love ones.
Love is the joy and happiness u get when u see your love ones succeed
Love is when u seriously feel sick, sad uncomfortable when your love ones have trouble.
True love is hard to achieve but when u find the person u know that u have never felt that feeling until it happens.
When my kids were born the feeling I felt is seriously indescribable when I first laid my eyes on them.
When it comes to a partner it happens over time could be weeks or years but eventually everything that I stated above applies to them. I can truly say I love my wife more and more every day but my kids I feel like there is no way I could ever not love them but the same does not apply for my partner which is the only difference I can make but both Is love.
I think its something that progresses everyday. When your with that person and wake up and they give you a reason to love them. Its the person overall and how they make you feel
Being patient, understanding that the other person had different cards to deal with than yours and where they are right now is exactly the right place they should be at because that is how it is and provided they are doing their best to improve and live their best life in order to reach their best life, you both are going to be fine. I mean it doesn’t take much to acknowledge this. Or else what is love even?
Edit: Just a rant- I just feel like all my life no matter all my romantic interests, I have had this urge to PROVE myself. Prove myself that I am enough or perfect for them. I have only been in one relationship and I hope this one turns into marriage hopefully. I think women shouldn’t prove themselves- its the men who need, unless you are the woman making the first move.
Feeling fully supported by someone, and also fully supporting them. Being able to feel safe being vulnerable and open with them. Having a true understanding of each other and a deep longing for them. Making each other better.
Growing up I thought love was all butterflies and romance. Now at 34 I realize it’s choosing someone every single day even when they’re driving you absolutely nuts. It’s working through the hard stuff together.
to be the only person that they truly love, to not be afraid to show each other off, to understand each other through tough times and to grow together in a relationship
When my mom got cancer last year my boyfriend drove four hours every weekend to help me take care of her. He never complained just quietly supported us both. That’s what love means to me showing up without being asked.
For me, love means respect, companionship, and feeling safe. But it’s also those tender moments, like when I had to leave for a 2 weeks trip, and my husband and I both cried at the thought of being apart.
Love has a way of allowing a person to transcend themselves. To me it’s about an internal process – loving – without a need for someone else to act a certain way in response. It’s a transformation within that teaches me more about myself, the world around me, and my capacity for compassion. It starts internally and flows out. And having it be centered in myself helps me know when to set boundaries without guilt. There is an endless supply when I am the source
Love is freedom. Being able to be completely free and your weird-goofy-anxious-whatever self around them and knowing that you’re loved not just despite but because of it.
Love is unconditional. When you like someone, you want them in your life. But when you love someone, you want them to be happy, even if that means they don’t get to be in your life. You just want them to be happy, without any expectations.
Love is vulnerability. It is giving someone your whole heart and the power to hurt you and trusting that they won’t.
Love is solace. When you talk to them and you can instantly feel the entire burden of the day lift from your shoulders.
Love is when you cannot put into words how much you love someone but you physically feel your heart bursting with it.
Love is safety. Being seen and heard and held.
Love is when home is not a place, but a person.
Love is respecting them even when you don’t agree with them.
Love is when they inspire you to become your best self.
Love is the answer, to all prayers.
Love is gratitude.
Honestly, I should stop at this point or i’ll go on & on.
Love is work. I don’t mean this in a negative context at all. Love is active effort, active understanding, and active patience. This goes for loving yourself as well.
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To be professed, protected & provided for by a man.. All 3 things have to be there. Take out one, it’s no longer love.
Unconditional
Effort, understanding, accountability, presence.
Respect
This is changing according to personalities
Pain.
Feeling safe, seen, and accepted. Like you can be fully yourself and still be cared for no matter what.
Feeling safe, secure, understood, and having patience and kindness towards one another.
I once watched a documentary about teaching Philosophy to 3 year old children. One little girl was asked what love is, and she gave the most beautiful answer: “love is forgiving someone even if they hurt you”.
I think about her all the time.
Monies
Normal love for things and friends: Joy. I love scuba diving and it bings me immense happiness and makes me smile. When I see my friends, I smile.
Romantic love: nothing. It doesn’t exist for me.
what is love
**Insert Sana
Understanding. Patience. Acceptance.
Being known and accepted and considered. Loyalty.
“No matter what happens, we’ll figure it out together.” Operating as a team where everyone is equal and matters. Curiosity and compassion instead of judgment and contempt. Unconditionally respecting their autonomy even when you don’t agree with or like their choices, while having the safety to be honest about what you really think and call them out when they need to hear it. Radically accepting them and meeting them where they’re at. Not needing to censor or shink yourself. Showing up and helping when they’re in need. Showing with your actions that they are not alone. Letting them feel and be whatever they feel and are. Caring, supporting, and truly rooting for what’s best for them even if it doesn’t include you. Forgiving them when they mess up. Committing to learning and adapting how to be there for them and be a team with them in new and evolving ways as you change and grow as people.
Love is the feeling that u can’t live without your love ones
Love is when u would give up your life without question for your love ones.
Love is the joy and happiness u get when u see your love ones succeed
Love is when u seriously feel sick, sad uncomfortable when your love ones have trouble.
True love is hard to achieve but when u find the person u know that u have never felt that feeling until it happens.
When my kids were born the feeling I felt is seriously indescribable when I first laid my eyes on them.
When it comes to a partner it happens over time could be weeks or years but eventually everything that I stated above applies to them. I can truly say I love my wife more and more every day but my kids I feel like there is no way I could ever not love them but the same does not apply for my partner which is the only difference I can make but both Is love.
I think its something that progresses everyday. When your with that person and wake up and they give you a reason to love them. Its the person overall and how they make you feel
Nothing actually
Acceptance
choosing someone everyday, especially when it’s hard, when the easiest thing to do is walk away and you still choose them.
Respect, laughs and understanding
Love should be 60/40 with both parties trying to be the 60
It means working through things and being there for each other…Also great sex haha
Love is a choice. Caring about someone, being ready to help them when they need it, being loyal to them, being kind to them. That’s what love is.
Care and respect.
Being patient, understanding that the other person had different cards to deal with than yours and where they are right now is exactly the right place they should be at because that is how it is and provided they are doing their best to improve and live their best life in order to reach their best life, you both are going to be fine. I mean it doesn’t take much to acknowledge this. Or else what is love even?
Edit: Just a rant- I just feel like all my life no matter all my romantic interests, I have had this urge to PROVE myself. Prove myself that I am enough or perfect for them. I have only been in one relationship and I hope this one turns into marriage hopefully. I think women shouldn’t prove themselves- its the men who need, unless you are the woman making the first move.
Feeling safe, feeling seen, and showing up for those you care about. Love is more than a feeling, it’s a verb.
It’s every where and all I can give
Feeling fully supported by someone, and also fully supporting them. Being able to feel safe being vulnerable and open with them. Having a true understanding of each other and a deep longing for them. Making each other better.
To be loved to is to be seen
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Being each other’s biggest cheerleader
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Growing up I thought love was all butterflies and romance. Now at 34 I realize it’s choosing someone every single day even when they’re driving you absolutely nuts. It’s working through the hard stuff together.
to be the only person that they truly love, to not be afraid to show each other off, to understand each other through tough times and to grow together in a relationship
When my mom got cancer last year my boyfriend drove four hours every weekend to help me take care of her. He never complained just quietly supported us both. That’s what love means to me showing up without being asked.
For me, love means respect, companionship, and feeling safe. But it’s also those tender moments, like when I had to leave for a 2 weeks trip, and my husband and I both cried at the thought of being apart.
Loyalty/fidelity above everything else. I cannot love someone who would ever step out of the relationship emotionally or physically.
Feeling like I would never ever hurt that person. Because I just can’t. Because it’s painful to even imagine hurting him.
Not the family I was born into, but the family that I made
That gave me every strength and hope that no matter what goes wrong, life will get better
Painful
You know it’s still there no matter how many ups and downs in life.
Love is appreciation to another person, feeling comfortable with them.
I don’t even know anymore. 😔
A best friend who you are sexually attracted to, and you feel that in return from them
Love feels like home. Not the place, the peace.
Love has a way of allowing a person to transcend themselves. To me it’s about an internal process – loving – without a need for someone else to act a certain way in response. It’s a transformation within that teaches me more about myself, the world around me, and my capacity for compassion. It starts internally and flows out. And having it be centered in myself helps me know when to set boundaries without guilt. There is an endless supply when I am the source
Nothing at this point.
Respect, trust, comfort, understanding, consistency and honesty, even if it hurts. The willingness to move toward solutions for everyone involved.
Love is freedom. Being able to be completely free and your weird-goofy-anxious-whatever self around them and knowing that you’re loved not just despite but because of it.
Love is unconditional. When you like someone, you want them in your life. But when you love someone, you want them to be happy, even if that means they don’t get to be in your life. You just want them to be happy, without any expectations.
Love is vulnerability. It is giving someone your whole heart and the power to hurt you and trusting that they won’t.
Love is solace. When you talk to them and you can instantly feel the entire burden of the day lift from your shoulders.
Love is when you cannot put into words how much you love someone but you physically feel your heart bursting with it.
Love is safety. Being seen and heard and held.
Love is when home is not a place, but a person.
Love is respecting them even when you don’t agree with them.
Love is when they inspire you to become your best self.
Love is the answer, to all prayers.
Love is gratitude.
Honestly, I should stop at this point or i’ll go on & on.
Love is work. I don’t mean this in a negative context at all. Love is active effort, active understanding, and active patience. This goes for loving yourself as well.
Love is having someone to spend my time with who won’t judge me and will be as playfully weird as I am lmao