What is Love?

[Xanatos]

I've only ever been truly in love with one girl who ended up hurting me severely. I promised myself that I wouldn't get close enough to someone to fall in love again.

Love is non-existant to me.

Man, that was blatantly clichéd.

You know the drills, the Dark brooding guy, with hidden depths that was once betrayed and now loves no one. Any day now some chick is going to appear and try to fix you with the "magic of love".

Did somebody say...

[metalangel]

I've only ever been truly in love with one girl who ended up hurting me severely. I promised myself that I wouldn't get close enough to someone to fall in love again.

Love is non-existant to me.

Man, that was blatantly clichéd.

You know the drills, the Dark brooding guy, with hidden depths that was once betrayed and now loves no one. Any day now some chick is going to appear and try to fix you with the "magic of love".

Don't you see? Revvy is Emi!

[Xanatos]

I've only ever been truly in love with one girl who ended up hurting me severely. I promised myself that I wouldn't get close enough to someone to fall in love again.

Love is non-existant to me.

Man, that was blatantly clichéd.

You know the drills, the Dark brooding guy, with hidden depths that was once betrayed and now loves no one. Any day now some chick is going to appear and try to fix you with the "magic of love".

Don't you see? Revvy is Emi!

So...Revvy enjoys lemon lube then?

[Revvy]

I've only ever been truly in love with one girl who ended up hurting me severely. I promised myself that I wouldn't get close enough to someone to fall in love again.

Love is non-existant to me.

Man, that was blatantly clichéd.

You know the drills, the Dark brooding guy, with hidden depths that was once betrayed and now loves no one. Any day now some chick is going to appear and try to fix you with the "magic of love".

Did somebody say...

Changed my mind I now love Xanatos

[Xanatos]

Did somebody say...

Changed my mind I now love Xanatos

Pfft. As if you didn't before.

And I notice your story got updated. Good for you.

[Tomate]

Then i was right, sorta of.

[Pseudogenesis]

Man, that was blatantly clichéd.

You know the drills, the Dark brooding guy, with hidden depths that was once betrayed and now loves no one. Any day now some chick is going to appear and try to fix you with the "magic of love".

Don't you see? Revvy is Emi!

So...Revvy enjoys lemon lube then?

Who doesn't?

[Xanatos]

Who doesn't?

I prefer bacon.

Love is warm bacon.

[Pseudogenesis]

Who doesn't?

I prefer bacon.

Love is warm bacon.

Two words: Bacon. Lube.


This is the final frontier.

[Xanatos]

Who doesn't?

I prefer bacon.

Love is warm bacon.

Two words: Bacon. Lube.


This is the final frontier.

I have some in my desk. I regret nothing.

[DrNonookee]

I think ProfAllister pretty much nailed it with his treatise earlier in the thread (which I won't quote here because it's too long). Except maybe for this part:

When you love a woman, you're happy that she's found a man that makes her happy.

About the only way this would be true for me is if I already have a girlfriend of my own. If I don't and I like the girl romantically, I'm going to be seriously hurt that she doesn't love me back - so much so that I'll probably have to stop seeing her to avoid drowning in sorrow. Some people (like Misha) can stay strong in the face of that constant reminder of heartbreak, but I don't think I can. Selfish? Probably...but I'm just not that strong.

And if I *don't* like the girl romantically? I'll still be upset, because I'll be envious of her having a relationship and me not having one. A guy just can't win sometimes, can he?

(Then again, maybe if I ask she'll hook me up with one of her lady friends...)


Love, to me, is basically friendship to the nth degree. To me, friendship means being emotionally intimate with a person beyond simply being something like co-workers or drinking buddies. It's the sort of intimacy where you make yourself emotionally vulnerable to the other person, and the other person validates that trust by responding with kindness and understanding. This is why I have so few friends in real life - I've rarely met anyone who thinks of the word "friend" as anything more than "someone you know from work" or "someone you go bowling with on Thursdays". I'm a shy, sensitive person, and I've yet to meet someone who is unthreatening and earnest enough for me to feel like I could trust them with my feelings.

Love is when that sort of intimacy grows to the point of A> physical intimacy, and B> exclusivity. The former I think needs no detailed explainations while the latter means the point where your interactions with someone become *so* close and personal that you don't want your partner to have the same experience with anyone else. Why? Because that level of connection you have with them means so much to you (and hopefully, to your partner) that it cheapens the experience to think that anyone else might be sharing in it. It's like discovering this really great small resturant to eat at during lunch and not telling anyone about it because you like having the place to yourself - your own private little joy in life. That's what love is - it's two people caring about each other so much that they selfishly refuse to share that feeling of closeness with anyone else.

To quote a certain robot from Futurama:

There is no great love without great jealousy!

[Weird Badger]

People try to answer this question since the beginning of history.
I'll be damned if I know.

[LicketySplit]

This is one of the best threads I've read. +1 internets for everybody
Btw Love is pain. For me.

[Ghotiheads]

Btw Love is pain. For me.

No no no. That's life. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something.

For me? Well it's a lot of things. A stupid giddy feeling one day. Deep depression the next. It's pain, but it's pleasure too. Love is life, just condensed, and different for everybody.

Or a really good toasted sandwich. Ya know either or.

[LicketySplit]

For me? Well it's a lot of things. A stupid giddy feeling one day. Deep depression the next. It's pain, but it's pleasure too.

Yeah. Thats what i meant. I'm just not good at wording things properly. Though for me it's like pain and happiness at the same time. At certain points that is.