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Post by John Barnett on Feb 25, 2004 16:20:58 GMT -5
What exactly is true love? Does it exist at all? What makes someone your true love? Do you think that about every lover you ever have an intimate relationship with? Does anyone know the meaning of what true love really is?
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Post by bloodredtears on Feb 25, 2004 17:40:34 GMT -5
Well, I do not know the meaning of true love, and, in fact, know very little about love at all. I can only go from experience and say that love is all about pain. I truly mean that. When you finally admit and believe that you're in love it hurts for everyday following that. I think the only way Love really lasts anymore is through hard work. Love is a fleeting emotion, because it is just that, emotion. All emotion is fleeting. True love could possibly be the work that is put into keeping love alive. If your love is good enough to work for and strong enough to survive if you work then it's true.
Of course, even if you work really hard it could still fail, so maybe this is all wrong. Love bites.
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Post by kemleth on Feb 26, 2004 14:15:57 GMT -5
"True Love" is the love that I give to the one who is worthy of my prescence. Allowing her access to the truths that make me who I am. Giving her the time and devotion that I have deemed worth my time. I take nothing for granted and cherish each day I look to my side in bed. Seeing her face reminds me why I choose to love her. I do not "fall in love", because I refuse to believe that Love is a force that I can not control. I will love whom I choose when I choose. Another reason for not believing in "falling in love" is that I refuse to pass off responsiblity for my actions. If you "fall in love" it realy isn't your fault is it? I chose to love making all the more meaningfull...
I won't allow anyone to fall in love with me...
...I am worth so much more than that.
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Post by amberputis on Mar 12, 2004 9:55:19 GMT -5
haha, i have to laugh at John's reply, trust me i know the feeling of thinking then finding out the hard way! But for some odd reason i believe true love exists. I think that 'true love' just happens, and it does happen to people whether they fall out of love at some point in time or not. I think love is a confusing subject, love can turn a mad man sane, or visa versa. Truth be told, we need some form of love in our life, love makes the earth rotate. Where would we be w/o it? Peace love and happiness...honestly. I think i've loved, but i think the day that i find my "one and only" it will just hit me like a dart. When love happens, its uncontrolable. Yes i agree, with love comes pain, but without pain there is no love, thats what makes love so genuine and special.
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Post by Mikepoet on Mar 26, 2004 0:20:32 GMT -5
Pain is poetry as poetry is pain......Love has at least one forum on all the poetry sites..thusly love is painful and poetic..I think as close as man can get to defining love would be best found in poems..
You sit at home all alone with
tearstained satin by the phone,
dreaming of the day
someone will truly care.
You need a true love
There when you need him
True love
Never wants to be free.
He’ll feel your pain
Caress your hurt
All you need
Is a true love.
It’s easier to write needing love type poems for me anyway..
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2004 17:21:33 GMT -5
Love is just a word. The connection is all that counts. Right, so now that I'm out of my Confusing Matrix Mood, I'll start off by saying that to me, true love is possession. It's a one-sided thing. I don't think it's actually possible for two people to be truly in love with one another, because then you'd have two people desiring to be with the other all the time. Life would just pass them by. True love can't ever be achieved. One person possessive of a lover would drive that lover away, afraid of what the other might actually hold. So then true love/possession is actually a lonely thing, and those only willing to risk that loneliness would actually be able to dwell in that love. Yeah, I'm a bit of a pessimist.  |
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Post by Persephone on Apr 16, 2004 7:38:45 GMT -5
The only true love is the love that God has for us. Because S/He loves even though we don't necessarily love him back, hate him and get nothing from that love. No one can do that unconditionally.
There are many categories and intensities for love, and all of them according to the needs of the person. We love because there is something to be gained from that love, be it self-validation or something else. We love that is something that is not in us. I would recommend reading Plato's Symposium for a more erudite explanation.
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Post by John Barnett on May 12, 2004 17:26:32 GMT -5
Your idea makes a lot of sense Persephone and I've often wondered if that isn't true myself.
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Post by Persephone on May 29, 2004 7:35:46 GMT -5
I often think that love is too delicate, too frail for humans and what we really yearn for in life is passion.
At least, that is how it feels to me. Love becomes too formulaic somehow in this world and and passion too unpredictable.
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Post by angel on Jun 22, 2004 17:01:56 GMT -5
I have thought of those questions so many times. And it usually comes up with talking about sex. Or in relationships...how can you say you love someone...when you two break up...obviously it wasn't true love, because you did not get married and are still not together. On the same concept, you would think that the person that you marry is your true love, so why have sex before you get married, if you want to be saving it for the person you truly love. Yet again...what if you get divorced. It hurts my brain to think about it. Ouch  |
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Post by haggardlilelf on Jun 30, 2004 18:55:38 GMT -5
I think true love is all in how you see it. It's intensity all depends on the person. I personally am in love with love. It's heavenly falling for someone. One way I can tell I'm in love is because it has nothing to do with sex. You want to be with that person in as many ways as possible, but sex isnt the most important thing. It's just something that goes along with it.
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Post by beginswithKendsinG on Oct 6, 2004 0:14:17 GMT -5
You know, when it comes to divorce and all that. I just think about how when you stand there you make vows. Promises. You give your word. Someone once told me that a man is only as good as his word. If you can't keep promises to your spouse, then whats that make you? I realy think that love is a choice. Just like every other feeling. You choose to get angry, you choose to let things annoy you, etc.
Being in love with love would only mean that you are in love with the feeling of it, you knwo what I mean?
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Post by QueenofDarkness on Mar 3, 2005 15:31:18 GMT -5
When someone finds true love, can you tell me how it feels? I have always wanted to know but can't seem to find out for myself.
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Post by DarkVortex on May 30, 2005 3:08:56 GMT -5
Love, to me is a word easliy said than shown!... Yes there are many ways to show "true love"... but does anyone know how? It takes a man or women who doesnt compell themself to love because in a sence that is a fabricated way of love... You have to tell the truth and gain/give trust to be in love and to own it. To me you have to be able to love yourself before your able to love another. Today our self-consious takes over our heart, what we really feel inside. So in being be are what we want to see in the miror than what we actually believe ourselves as.. Love yourself then you can love another... I have loved and still love a girl or I may say women that to me is someone that I share a unique feelig or sense with, because I have never sensed that ever with anyone else... True love is possible, but what is the sad part is that it will never be with one person.. It can but you have to think about "what if".... What if I lived in another state or country... Yes many people say it is ment to be but is it actually?... For now you gain and have what comes your way.. dont push it but let it come b/c love is the essence of a true mind for it succeeds in hate, despair, pain, and happiness... Without love a man/woman would never live b/c we are always longing to be longed.. Its the little things in love or a relationship that bust the rockets than what money has to buy... Love is free... for everyone has it, but it is up to them to give!....Let love be your sun for it can go away during dark times but lighten them up the nest day... I share love which is feeling with one woman b/c right now I havent that feeling for another.. I love eveything about her the edge the beauty the drama the maturity and intelligence.. Gaining all that in one person is ALOT! and takes time... but is possible... be opitimistic with love and it shall with you!.....~Nick I know i blab on but love is special to me!...  |
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Post by T.J. Barber on Jul 15, 2005 19:48:05 GMT -5
I can't believe I didn't reply to this. Here is what I think. I believe that true love is determined by the person or persons involved in a relationship. I truly believe that true love does exist but, it cannot exist if the people in the relationship are not committed to one another. They must be committed to one another and committed to the cause itself. They must love one another more than anything in this world. That is what makes love true. Without it...there is nothing....
TJ
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