I think if you absolutely had to give up one for the other, I'd say receiving love is the more important of the two. I don't think you can feel like a complete person if you aren't able to feel like someone loves you.

I can't honestly say I've felt someone's love, other than my family. I know I am capabable of loving but I would love to feel loved.

Me to!!!!

Kindred spirits then.

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SHALL WE DANCE? LOL

This comes down to the individuals definition (or perception, if you will) on importance, among other things.

I would argue that 'Courage' is the more important root factor here. Ideally, I would like to say to 'show' love is more important than receiving love.. but I know that isn't true, as there is the distinct possiblitiy it would lead to manipulation and tradegy, and you couldn't, as the expressor of love, be able to validate the benefits of loving the person you desire. That's If, you place your importance on your loving relationship soley on your ability to love.

Truely, it is more important to be loved, or feel it.

People don't have control over who they love, however, they do control how they express it.

To be loved is not only the most beneficial but it is also the least demanding. This offers a gauge, and thus an ability to validate. Even though it is not idealistic to think of self-centered notions when it comes to love. The reality of things are, if people did not pursue love to improve themselves or to experience it, they would not pursue it at all. The desire of love, whether to give it or take it, is rooted in a very personable, self-interest.

In the end, it takes a couragous lover to initate that level of companionship, from someone who loves them in return, but does not express it because they are unable to validate. Where as, in such a companionship, the issue of importance of give and take becomes trivial.

A couragous lover is also a fool, in this instance. A fool in love, if you will. It is a conflicting notion, that your best interests are to consider the importantance of being loved over giving love. That you have to await the rash loving fools that don't consider the depth of their commitment to euphoria.

Anyway, that's my scoop.

You had me at hello.

Reciprocity - Balance ...

Well, there has to be a point of initiation to cause the balance to exist, that's what I'm focusing on.

This isn't as perplexing as 'the chicken and the egg' concept.

The problems in the importance of giving or taking love ISN'T important, or relative to, when two people love one another. The problem is when one person loves someone who does not love them.

One of the two possible problems is when you love, or express love to, someone who does not love you back, how do you validate it; The better question is, do you even care whether they love you back? If you do care, than your importance lyes in 'being loved.' If you don't care, than your importance is in 'giving love.' To that end, if you don't care, because your contempt in the notion of merely loving someone else, you won't experience 'being loved,' and I can only assume that's a tradgey. Not to mention you're a border line stalker.

The other problem is when you're not the expressor, but the recepter. If someone expresses their love to you, and you don't love them. Then the importance of give or take isn't concerning to you at all. in respect to that relationship, unless you are 'taking' their love for the sole purpose of benefiting, in which case.. you're manipulating them, shame on you!

These are the concerns, and my perception of importance (in regards to love), that exist at the points of initation. Beyond this point is the loving relationship, where, ideally, neither of these concerns are relavent. Realistically, if one of the partners is unsatisfied with the amount of love they receive from their spouse, than their importance already lyes in 'being loved.'

I don't want to seem contradicatory here, but it is 'better' to 'give love' than to recieve, because it's more important to 'receive.'

I see it as it relates to the difference between intentions and wants/needs. The better intention is to give, but you still have the wants and needs of receiving.

I'm not sure if this just seems like garbage rhetoric to yall or not.

to love is more important...it will avail you, "to be loved' thing one day

Both. Love is at its best when it's reciprocal.