what is love for you?

Willingness to do without anything as long as you make her life better.

seeing yourself in others

(actively) wanting no less for another than you want for yourself, mainly, health, happiness, and success

Love is having someone accept you as you without trying to change anything about your and that person does not put demands on you or blackmails you using the "if you loved me; you would do this for me" line.

Love is the inside out of hatred.

Love is accepting a person for who they are and in return being accepted for who you are.. being honest about thoughts and feelings and being able to understand where the other persons point of view is coming from.. it doesn't mean to isolate someone from others or being jealous about who they talk with..

Love is defined by Websters as follows:

1a (1): strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties <maternal love for a child> (2): attraction based on sexual desire : affection and tenderness felt by lovers (3): affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests <love for his old schoolmates>
1b: an assurance of affection <give her my love>
2: warm attachment, enthusiasm, or devotion <love of the sea>
3a: the object of attachment, devotion, or admiration <baseball was his first love>
3b (1): a beloved person : darling —often used as a term of endearment (2) British —used as an informal term of address
4a: unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another: as (1) : the fatherly concern of God for humankind (2) : brotherly concern for others
4b: a person's adoration of God
5: a god or personification of love
6: an amorous episode : love affair
7: the sexual embrace : copulation
8: a score of zero (as in tennis)

MY POINT?

Love has way more than eight (8) definitions, it's more like 6,973,738,433! Love means many different things to many different people. My take: A state or feeling, coupled with actions, which inwardly & outwardly manifest your adoration of someone or something. You can love her or him, you can love it or that. The magic happens which two people love each other, each in their own way, and a magical symmetry occurs.

Again, when (and if) you get to this state, CHERISH IT, nurture it, and protect it above all else. Once it's gone, it usually stays gone.

you really know what love is huh?

you really know what love is huh?

the degree of stupidity one is willing to endure for and/or from a person place or thing

greasy food and beer while watching a crappy sci-fi movie

Sounds good to me.

Giving her your last M&M.

true love in a relationship is all about being there, always supportive of your partner when the things you are doing is right. Building each other up with words, not tearing each other apart. True relationships are built on construction, not destruction. we know this is all true if you are a sensible person. Hey being kinky is cute too.

Ya'll read my mind!

love is always comes from hear.

Me thinks I have a grasp on it - for me. Again, it WILL be different for everyone. Folks explaining it may speak a few similarities, or subtle nuances, but it's a custom-job on a Harley. You might not like my all black with chrome scorpions on the tank & rear fender, or you might love it. I don't own a Harley BTW, but I once found a soft tail in the middle of the desert! Focus!

Further, sometimes I think "we" over-romanticize the concept of love. It may not be anything more than believing that person you're with is the one you were "destined-for" or it could have been y'all's situations just so happen to coincide. Fate? don't buy it, don't subscribe to it cause if you do, you are saying you have very little to do with the outcome of most situations.

I have a number of friends that met their wives in places and doing things that the average person would be surprised to hear. Does that mean that what they have isn't love? So what when you met your wife she was a lady of the evening and you got her pregnant. If what you feel is good enough for you, and the two of you click, label it love, and do your own happily ever after. Conversely, so what if you met your man while he was running from the police after having robbed a store to pay his child support! If what you have works for you, roll with it.

Love itself is fleeting = you can't really see it, touch it, smell it, hear it, or taste it - but it is wonderful none-the-less, and that feeling shouldn't, but it can disappear even faster than it came over you...

Go to you local prison, and see just how many of those folks are in there because of love in one way or another. Not being too pessimistic/cynical, but love can be one hell of an fickle-@ss emotion!

I'm out of money having provided my two-cents

I think there is no one definition for love, as all relationships are unique. You know if you truly love someone, by how angry you feel when you both split up, whether you get back together or not. Breaking up brings out the worser traits of some.

How true.