for those who have been in love, what were your first thoughts of that someone. how did you know that you were truely in love with that person, and not just a strong feelings thing? honestly, i've never once told a girl that i loved her, cuz i dont want to say it unless i mean it. the word love is overrated these days amoung couples. whats love to you?

hey there i have my version of what love was to me

I was so in love with a man i think the only time in my life i could actually say that it was love ...

it is hard sometimes to distinguish the strong feelings for someone and real love but here goes ...

love is when you truly are happy in the life where you are at when you go to sleep and you sleep content because you have them in your life and when your heart will race at the very mention of there name ...when you seetheir car driving down the raod next you and all you can do is smile ....when you can be in a crowd of 100 people but the only person the room you see is that person ..when you have a little fight and you can work it out with out hating eachother and talk for hours and not really talk about anything when you hold them in your arms and you can hear their heart beat and the breath of that person on your neck and time feels like it stands still when you just know you fit in all areas that to me is love but be careful because when you love that much you are also volnerable ...but that is a risk you have to take if truly want to love it is not always easy and it is not always painless but that little bit of love is so worth it i hope that everyone out there can experiance that kinda love someday and if you get lucky and have it only for a little while it so much better than all the nights that you didnt have it ... trust me it you will just know when and there wont be any doubt ......good luck

WOW. What an awesome response. I wonder how many women are still out there who feel the same way? I thought for years that I was the only one and that everybody is always looking for the BBD. Guess I was wrong and thankfully so.

I couldn't agree more with your description! Thanks for taking the time to post it.

Consciously or unconsciously, we believe love is a sensation (based on physical and emotional attraction) that magically, spontaneously generates when Mr. or Ms. Right appears. And just as easily, it can spontaneously degenerate when the magic "just isn't there" anymore. You fall in love, and you can fall out of it.

Love is a choice that comes from appreciating goodness. Love doesn't just happen, you can make it happen.Your actions can affect feelings towards another person and whilst people believe love leads to giving the exact opposite is true,giving leads to loving.
Love is a combination of feelings,
The first is care: demonstrating active concern for the recipient's life and growth.
The second is responsibility: responding to his or her expressed and unexpressed needs.....particularly, in an adult relationship and emotional needs.
The third is respect: the ability to see a person as he / she is, to be aware of his / her unique individuality, and; consequently, wanting that person to grow and unfold as he / she is. These three components all depend upon the fourth,
knowledge: You can care for, respond to, and respect another only as deeply as you know him or her.
With all of these in place, add laughter.........

ahhhhhh, laughter.....

Good morning Puffins, now girl friend, you know how important laughter is, had my usual rendition of the elephant's azz said to me last evening by you know who.................Too funny

nothing I can add BonnyMiss has said it well

A light so bright inside of me, that it bled from every pore...

His face the most beautiful in the entire Universe, created from perfection...his eyes the depths of a storm tossed ocean...his lips the ripest wine...lashes that dusted his cheek, as angel's wings surely must.

His scent of timelessness, and familiar...his warmth more radiant than the Sun.

Oh, I've been in love alright, instant and permanent.




The first moment I held my first born son, I learnt what being in love was.

Love is the giving of ones self, for the betterment, or benefit, of the other..... Now, I have to read Jess response, again...beauty!!!

love is something you voluntarily choose to do.

I'm not sure if I have ever truly been in love.

Bonnie...

Say hello for me honey, give him KISSSSS's too

I certainly will, are you up for a phone call later on today ?

ALWAYS!!!!

You ladies really hog up the thread!!!

Mikey, you know what ladies are all about.............

Michael...

BE GOOD!!!!! please

Joanne, even when Im BAD, Im GOOD!!!!!!!

OMG....

At least you can be GOOD here....everyone is watchin you!!!

Shhhhhhh, it's a SECRET!!!!!!!!!!

Recently I was given a book by my son, by a poet who I have always treasured her words..Susan Polis Schutz...and in this book a poem I have always held dear..

What is Love?

Love is . . . Being happy for the other person when they are happy, Being sad for the person when they are sad, Being together in good times, And being together in bad times.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH.
Love is . . . Being honest with yourself at all times, Being honest with the other person at all times, Telling, listening, respecting the truth, And never pretending.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF REALITY.
Love is . . . An understanding so complete that you feel as if you are a part of the other person, Accepting the other person just the way they are, And not trying to change them to be something else.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF UNITY.
Love is . . . The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, The growth of one individual alongside of and together with the growth of another individual.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SUCCESS.
Love is . . . The excitement of planning things together, The excitement of doing things together.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF THE FUTURE.
Love is . . . The fury of the storm, The calm in the rainbow.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF PASSION.
Love is . . . Giving and taking in a daily situation, Being patient with each other's needs and desires.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SHARING.
Love is . . . Knowing that the other person will always be with you regardless of what happens, Missing the other person when they are away but remaining near in heart at all times.
LOVE IS THE SOURCE OF SECURITY.
LOVE IS . . . THE SOURCE OF LIFE!

Susan Polis Schutz