Love is friendship blossoming into something great. Not just meeting and it happens instantly. It's being tested tried and true.

Love has nothing to do with physical attraction

Love is giving someone the ability to rip your heart to shreds and trusting them not too
Love is letting someone be who they are and not try and.change.them

Love never changes. If you love someone today you should love them 50 yrs from now

love is..

waiting, even if its forever

My grandparents are 82. They have been married 62 years. Earlier this month my grandmother fell and broke her hip. My grandfather has a really bad heart - when I say really bad, it functions around 20% and he can barely walk.

On Friday she came from the hospital. She was really struggling. She is frail anyway, trying to walk with even a walker is so difficult. While she was in the hospital he had a ramp built for a wheelchair. As we pulled into the driveway, there he stood at the end of that ramp with a wheelchair. I almost lost it. It was everything I could do not to cry.

Without each other, they honestly have nothing.

Last night Nick and I had to take her to back to hospital. The doctors say she may not make it through the night. Apparently she developed an infection in her intestines and it took over her body. She survived emergency surgery today, against the odds but she is so weak from her hip surgery earlier this month that they just don't think she'll make it through this.

She's on a ventilator now, with all kinds of tubes and IVs. They let my grandfather in to see her, and when he came out I could tell he had been crying. What do you do? To actually be one with someone takes time. It's years of sharing life. It's making it through so many things over time again and again.

Then there comes the end. When you have overcome every hurdle and been through so many things together, but you just can't get over this last one. Your entire life has been spent with someone who was the someone it was all for - all the work, the sleepless nights, the good, the bad, the great, the vacations, the kids, the grandkids - all of IT. That person to live with, love, bitch, laugh, cry and hope. In the blink of an eye - or in one weekend - you can watch it just slip away.

My heart aches tonight for them.

[QUOTE=adorable;327015]My grandparents are 82. They have been married 62 years. Earlier this month my grandmother fell and broke her hip. My grandfather has a really bad heart - when I say really bad, it functions around 20% and he can barely walk.

On Friday she came from the hospital. She was really struggling. She is frail anyway, trying to walk with even a walker is so difficult. While she was in the hospital he had a ramp built for a wheelchair. As we pulled into the driveway, there he stood at the end of that ramp with a wheelchair. I almost lost it. It was everything I could do not to cry.

Without each other, they honestly have nothing.

Last night Nick and I had to take her to back to hospital. The doctors say she may not make it through the night. Apparently she developed an infection in her intestines and it took over her body. She survived emergency surgery today, against the odds but she is so weak from her hip surgery earlier this month that they just don't think she'll make it through this.

She's on a ventilator now, with all kinds of tubes and IVs. They let my grandfather in to see her, and when he came out I could tell he had been crying. What do you do? To actually be one with someone takes time. It's years of sharing life. It's making it through so many things over time again and again.

Then there comes the end. When you have overcome every hurdle and been through so many things together, but you just can't get over this last one. Your entire life has been spent with someone who was the someone it was all for - all the work, the sleepless nights, the good, the bad, the great, the vacations, the kids, the grandkids - all of IT. That person to live with, love, bitch, laugh, cry and hope. In the blink of an eye - or in one weekend - you can watch it just slip away.

My heart aches tonight for them.[/QUOTE)

First let me say I'm sorry about your grandmother that being said sounds like they have had a lifetime of true love Most will never experience that. They are truly blessed. To have loved so deeply and fully.

Love is not just a feeling but a choice, a decision.
Not subject to fleeting whims of emotion but a conscious focus and desire to do what must be done, to lay down one's life with someone else doing the same. It is an act of will not something as fickle as the stirrings of the heart.
(not that there is anything wrong with that)

love is..

that nudge at 4am, her feet touching my leg.

Love is......
 

a smile from my mom(f)

hugs from my daughter:bouquet:

snuggles from my furkids:heartbeat:

Not to go all 1978 on you but........
 

Like Oxygen just love the way he swings his microphone....it was 1978

Love Is...
 

patient.. Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love is not only a feeling, it is also a decision and love is not love unless it is reciprocated. :)

Love is going through the storm and feeling lost and feeling that hand grab yours and the sweetest words spoken of Baby we will get through this together.

Love is Patient

Love is watching her sleep in the moonlight

Love is slow.dancing in the rain just because

Love is an action

Love is understanding

Love is never having to say I'm sorry

Love is never having to defend ones self

I never really understood this quote :popcorn:

To me, love is being able to say you're sorry.

Love is calling me honey, even in your sleep.
Love is trying to beat me home from work so you can surprise me with dinner.