To know how, is another because it means we turned to give our attention or sought after the true meaning. To be able to love, first and foremost, is such a gift. There should be a one and only true example to follow. I think to be definitive and certain which there is for everything. You'll have those that scream it's in action then there's those that need the words and the voice of compassion to caress their ears. Love, to me, is ill-defined at the tongue of a human being. Love was the time I spent sharing my soul.The question here is "What do you think love is?" Love is waking up and seeing her little body and curly hair taking up 80 percent of the bed, pushing your considerably larger frame to the brink, seeing her toothy smile and her intensely colored eyes almost disappearing into themselves as the day’s prospects excite her. Love is a steady voice and a warm embrace during a bad trip when your soul’s raw and exposed, when everything immutable and essential gets reduced to meaningless cliche. Love is gathering wood, lighting a fire, and contemplating the immensity of space and the improbability of your union, considering your utter smallness but being okay because you’re small together. Love is being a calm voice during a panic attack and the big spoon after a bad day. There’s a gentleness in your interaction, a joy of being around them. Love is being each others’ entire world, where you wait up for the other and can’t imagine parting. The person who cared to understand who you were and how you ticked. A gratitude that that person, and not just any person, was there beside you despite all the chaos of the universe and the world. "Words don’t do it justice, and it’s sort of a 'explain salt to somebody who hasn’t tasted it' paradigm. "Love for me meant subconsciously putting her needs before mine and deriving joy from her smile." 14. Love unconsciously rearranges your priorities. The important thing is that forgiveness and respect rule your relationship from both sides.ġ3. Love is a bond and a connection that can have so many different feelings, mostly good ones, sometimes bad ones, sometimes no feelings. "Okay so some people may disagree with me, but I do not believe that love is a single feeling that you hold on to. and never in my entire life have I ever been as content.'" 10.
"Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan in 'Star Trek Generations' described it (well, something else relative to the movie but it still can apply here) well I thought: 'It was like being inside joy, as if joy was something tangible and you could wrap yourself up in it like a blanket. RELATED: If You Haven't Experienced These 7 Things It Isn't Really Love - Yet 9. Initial attraction, obsession and seeing her as perfect, then slowly seeing the real person and the feelings left over are true love or nothing." "For me, love is like a nauseating stomach feel where you’re super hungry but want to throw up at the sight of food, or like smelling liquor during a terrible hangover." And a strong urge to ensure the other feels the same." 3. "Happy and safer than you’ve felt before. The absence of the rose-colored glasses of new lust hasn't been replaced with resentment, it has evolved into comfort, stability, and security with that person." 2. You still do things for each other, for the simple joy of making them happy. Īnd after all that, they're still your favorite person. "When all the new wears off, you don't have butterflies every time they call or text or you know you're going to see them, you're not getting all giddy about 'firsts' in your relationship, you're no longer both on your best behavior, you can see their faults and let them see yours, you've survived a few disagreements, you're not intimate every time you catch some alone time. So if you want to know what love feels like, check out what 15 men had to say and you'll see exactly what I mean.