What does love mean to you?

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Love means caring about another person's well-being more than you care about your own. It doesn't matter if it's a love of God, a spouse, a child or a friend. That's my opinion, anyway.

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I was JUST discussing with my daughter the idea of unconditional love (she has her first official date this weekend for Homecoming!) and tried to drive home that while parental love is unconditional, romantic love should ALWAYS be conditional - if he treats you poorly, if you give way more to the relationship than he does, get out! It was, to be honest, more a lecture than a discussion.

Personally, I think it is a pooling of your lives together, so that the other person's desires and needs become the same as your own, and carry equal importance. There is a lot of beautiful synchronicity involved, where your lives simply intertwine naturally because you recognize some deep connection with each other.

But there is hard work involved too, because there are going to be disagreements, and misunderstandings. Love itself isn't enough. Love doesn't conquer shit. You have to have the commitment and patience to work things out when it's not all flowers and sunshine. That's when the work of truly understanding each other begins, compromising in those areas where you disagree, and not only accepting but embracing and celebrating the uniqueness of the one you love.

Quote by Burquette
Love means caring about another person's well-being more than you care about your own. It doesn't matter if it's a love of God, a spouse, a child or a friend. That's my opinion, anyway.

Someone that I can look past flaws for. Someone that can do the same for me. Kindness, intrigue, curiosity and tenderness in a person.

To me, love is synonymous with acceptance.

It means that we accept a person, situation, task, or object just the way it is, and engage with it on its terms. I think it's the key to happiness in life. And when everybody does it, everybody gets acceptance of their terms. That is the bit people hesitate to trust others with, because it can go wrong.

So daring to love is a risk in this world, implying that those who decide to love must have courage.

Love is work and commitment. I dont think most people are unselfish enough to really accept one another and do that work. I am a definte ex romantic turned cynic. I have loved and received love. I consider myself lucky in that way. At this point I wouldnt accept anything less. Its hard to find people who dont view as disposable to some extent. Im too soft emotionally and too tired to pursue it again.

Love is respect, its caring, its wanting the best for that person and doing everything you can to help them succeed. It's wanting nothing but good things for someone else.

Its being able to be vulnerable with each other and knowing that you are safe. It's also the willingness to be challenged and understanding a different point of view. Sometimes that's agreeing to disagree.

It's being able and willing to communicate your thoughts and feelings, and knowing that sometimes you just need to stop and regroup.

It's wanting to make that person smile every day, and knowing that while things aren't always sunshine and rainbows, you aren't weathering it alone. That they are your priority. That they aren't second best. Making sure that every day they know you choose them.

But it's also just being able to enjoy someone's else company when doing nothing at all, it's making each other laugh.

It is a deep connection that I don't think you can ever describe in a way that truly does it justice.

What is love? Being able to explain my feelings in a single look at him.

Love is him.

Love is a worship, an offering for something they give you.

Care?

.....gelato in a hot Summer.

Seeing the world through two sets of eyes

Making me laugh and cry. Wanting and needing MY body above all others. Being my partner in crime and wine. My friend my lover my muse.

Above and beyond anything—unconditional commitment and priority to another/others above and beyond your care and love of self.