Love

I've been through a lot when it comes to love. You won't understand it is until you suffer massive heartbreak, that's how I see it. In my view, it's simply making yourself vulnerable to someone, all insecurities aside, and trust them not to destroy. Word's are hard to describe for my view point on it. My idea of a perfect relationship is the ability to understand eachother, trust eachother and be reasonable.

I've had girlfriends who wouldn't talk to me for hours for paying attention to the television, or dazed off for a mere 5-20 seconds. I've had girlfriends who didn't want a relationship, just the status of having a boyfriend, summer romances, if you will.

My first, and current relationship are it's best. They were the most mature, yet playful, and I'm loving it. I get infatuated easy, but I think hard about them before making a decision. Ever since I was 17 getting into too many summer romances, not enough commited ones I surely got frustrated.

But all that aside love is the understanding of one another, tolerance of habits, and most of all trust. You can't fully change a person, you can't be compatible with a person who you see no logic within his actions, or can't appreciate his actions, and you can't be with someone you are always skeptical of. Those are my key points I look at personally.

[color="#000080"] You can love your girl as well.

I love my girl. [/color]

You love the game. You love that pomegranate. You love your sister.

You are IN love with your gf.

Yes, I know there's a difference between 'in love' and 'love'. But once again, can you:

Love your sister like you love your wife?

Note, I never said in-love. Two different values towards each. If you value your wife more than your sister, so be it. If you value your sister more just because she's from the same tree as you, understandable as well. If you treat them both as equally, well, personally, I find that just being naive. If I had a wife in the upcoming future, depending on how close my bond is with her, and assuming I had a sister, I would of course care about my wife a bit more.

New question:

Can you be in love with your sister like you're in love with your wife?

This =/= the above, and the answer is obvious unless you're really into incest.

Love is being there in the good, the bad and the evil.

You love someone because they've treated you well and you like being treated well, so you do what you can to keep that constant flow of happiness coming right back at you and reflecting it towards that person you love. Keeps the circle of love spinning.

When you love someone, it's because they make you feel happy; warm and fuzzy on the inside, they make you think, they make you feel like you exist and matter.

Love is hard to explain, but you know when you feel and have it.

Love is whatever you define it to be. No other definition matters.

Love is just another emotion, like anger, sadness or joy. I don't see why people give it the extra weight it receives.

You summed up my second definition.

Because love isn't an emotion. DUH.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion
Emotion is associated with mood, temperament, personality and disposition, and motivation.

Love, in a romantic or family sense, seems to fit that fairly well.

That being said, I'm a lonely, pessimistic High school nerd, so all this talk of Romance is foreign to me.