Love is...<3

apretty · 12-23-2009, 10:35 AM

the dogs all tucked in around me and snoring.

Locutus · 12-23-2009, 10:51 AM

Giving someone you love the space they need...

FeminineAllure · 12-23-2009, 08:06 PM

Love is...Not always about the smiles and laughter but really being fully present to wipe away your lovers tears when necessary.

FeminineAllure · 12-27-2009, 11:29 PM

Love is...Acceptance that loving another involves loving the whole person with all of their imperfections.

Gemme · 12-28-2009, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FeminineAllure

Love is...Acceptance that loving another involves loving the whole person with all of their imperfections.

Amen!!!!!!!!!

FeminineAllure · 12-29-2009, 04:18 AM

In my dreams I'm always with you.

Love is hope. Hope is faith. Faith is trust. Trust love.

Wait for the one you can't live without.
YOU CAN'T SEE IT, BUT YOU CAN FEEL IT.
Love is amazing....
You find it in people you least expect to.
And see it in people you often reject.
How often do you find love when you're not looking for it?
But you know you've found it when your knees turn numb.
Love is something some people try to ignore,
They are afraid of loving and what it opens their heart for.
Love is something some people try to find,
And when they find something close to love, they fool themselves sometimes.
Love must be a coincidence, or an unexpected event,
A surprise in its happening, and heaven sent.
You must not rush it or plan the road you wish it to lead,
Let the feeling take its course, in any way it needs to.
You'll know when the feelings there, and when its completely right,
From there on, just let that feeling go, totake you to an unreachable height........

If love is... not a game, then why are there so many players?

If I had a rose for every time I thought about you, I'd be sitting in a garden~

When in search for that perfect bloom we often misss the smell of the roses.

Kiss me and you'll see the stars...

..Love me and I will give them to you

Theres a sparkle in your eye that only I see, and theres a place in your heart where only I want to be.

Unknown

always2late · 12-29-2009, 06:16 AM

I have a story similar to the one that started this thread. I am a nurse, and several years ago I worked on an Alzheimer unit. The husband of one of our patients would come every day to feed her breakfast, visit with her, and feed her lunch. She was in end-stage Alzheimer's, nonverbal, and had no sign of recognition that she knew who he was...and yet every day, without fail, there he was. He would talk to her, sit with her, feed her, and every day tell her he loved her. He told me the story of how they met...at a dance on a naval base. They met in January, and he married her that June. He said she was the love of his life.

One day we had a blizzard, it was a state of emergency and the local news channels were warning that no one should be out on the roads. I was sitting at the nurse's station and to my surprise, I looked up and saw him walk through the doors. I said to him "Mr *, what are you doing out! You shouldn't be driving in this weather!" He just looked at me, smiled and replied "Well, I couldn't leave my girl alone now could I?"

That is love

Dragonfly · 01-09-2010, 12:46 PM

Love is a verb, not just a noun. Most people think of it as a noun. But it is like the word seat. You sit on a seat (n), or you Seat the customers. One is a word describing something the latter is the action of putting people in their seat.

When you say I love you to someone, it is a verb in that sentence. Its the actions you make. Things like giving a massage to ease their pain, celebrating special days, and even just working on the relationship talking. They are all actions that show love. Everything you put in the category of things you do FOR that loved one to Show your feelings. Love just isnt some vague undefined feeling that there are never enough words to describe... the feelings are different for everyone so the dictionary references as a noun are only a foundation basic explanation. Love used as a noun is subjective and interpretation is different for everyone. So if it isn't something you can touch like a seat... how is it real?

For me it is because Love as a verb is factual. Tangible. Really easy to prove because as a verb, the actions are the proof. You experience it as it happens outside of one's mind and in the real world. Love as a verb is what makes love real. If its not a verb, then when it is used as a noun we would all think of it (world wide) as a FICTIONAL or Mythological thing.

Most of the world can recognize a fictional character or make believe item like invisibility cloak of Harry Potter for example. Author imagined and not "real". Maybe the subject and plot had realistic aspects, it was make believe by Rowlings and she gets paid a lot of money too I might add. Love is not supposed to be in this category is it?

Love is a verb for me.

FeminineAllure · 01-09-2010, 06:42 PM

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

violaine · 01-14-2010, 07:15 PM

love is at the check out - trying to hold a mini telephone conversation with love and too many things going on at once -

Random · 01-22-2010, 11:06 PM

Love is simply that...

Meaning.. When you are love... Truely loved... when you love... Truely love.. then nothing changes that..

time
distance
communication

It doesn't matter, if you see them, speak to them.. It still exists..

Love simply is...

WILDCAT · 01-23-2010, 01:22 AM

LOVE IS OUR ADELE!

HeartBreak Kid · 01-23-2010, 02:57 AM

Love is staying AWAKE to help a friend clean.......
LMAO
J/k....

Blade · 02-03-2010, 12:03 PM

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine

Blade · 01-23-2010, 02:07 PM

Love is a commitment not an emotion

violaine · 01-25-2010, 11:48 PM

+

Kätzchen · 04-08-2025, 01:48 PM

kittygrrl · 04-08-2025, 09:28 PM

love is kind

Inuus · 12-29-2009, 07:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FeminineAllure

Love is...Acceptance that loving another involves loving the whole person with all of their imperfections.

Priceless

Softly · 12-29-2009, 08:31 AM

Love is taking the Christmas tree down together and not wanting to kill kill kill xoxo (because my asthma was getting bad we had to take the tree down)!

Love is cuddling close to my lover when the alarm goes off and I feel our cat jump right into the space on the other side of me...lol makes me all happy thinking about it ! warm body on one side and handsome black cat on the other xoxo

Love is feeling warm inside when I hear our songs...

Love is want, not need.

12-23-2009, 08:06 PM	#3
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Love is...Not always about the smiles and laughter but really being fully present to wipe away your lovers tears when necessary. __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

12-27-2009, 11:29 PM	#4
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Love is...Acceptance that loving another involves loving the whole person with all of their imperfections. __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

12-29-2009, 04:18 AM	#6
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	In my dreams I'm always with you. Love is hope. Hope is faith. Faith is trust. Trust love. Wait for the one you can't live without. YOU CAN'T SEE IT, BUT YOU CAN FEEL IT. Love is amazing.... You find it in people you least expect to. And see it in people you often reject. How often do you find love when you're not looking for it? But you know you've found it when your knees turn numb. Love is something some people try to ignore, They are afraid of loving and what it opens their heart for. Love is something some people try to find, And when they find something close to love, they fool themselves sometimes. Love must be a coincidence, or an unexpected event, A surprise in its happening, and heaven sent. You must not rush it or plan the road you wish it to lead, Let the feeling take its course, in any way it needs to. You'll know when the feelings there, and when its completely right, From there on, just let that feeling go, totake you to an unreachable height........ If love is... not a game, then why are there so many players? If I had a rose for every time I thought about you, I'd be sitting in a garden~ When in search for that perfect bloom we often misss the smell of the roses. Kiss me and you'll see the stars... ..Love me and I will give them to you Theres a sparkle in your eye that only I see, and theres a place in your heart where only I want to be. Unknown __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

12-29-2009, 06:16 AM	#7
always2late Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Femme Preferred Pronoun?: m'lady Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: NJ Posts: 2,000 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,834 Thanked 6,231 Times in 1,462 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	I have a story similar to the one that started this thread. I am a nurse, and several years ago I worked on an Alzheimer unit. The husband of one of our patients would come every day to feed her breakfast, visit with her, and feed her lunch. She was in end-stage Alzheimer's, nonverbal, and had no sign of recognition that she knew who he was...and yet every day, without fail, there he was. He would talk to her, sit with her, feed her, and every day tell her he loved her. He told me the story of how they met...at a dance on a naval base. They met in January, and he married her that June. He said she was the love of his life. One day we had a blizzard, it was a state of emergency and the local news channels were warning that no one should be out on the roads. I was sitting at the nurse's station and to my surprise, I looked up and saw him walk through the doors. I said to him "Mr , what are you doing out! You shouldn't be driving in this weather!" He just looked at me, smiled and replied "Well, I couldn't leave my girl alone now could I?" That is love __________________ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there ~ Rumi*

01-09-2010, 12:46 PM	#8
Dragonfly Member How Do You Identify?: Queersexual Female Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: smiling real big Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: My Own House Illinois Posts: 330 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 871 Thanked 346 Times in 151 Posts Rep Power: 645438	Love is... Love is a verb, not just a noun. Most people think of it as a noun. But it is like the word seat. You sit on a seat (n), or you Seat the customers. One is a word describing something the latter is the action of putting people in their seat. When you say I love you to someone, it is a verb in that sentence. Its the actions you make. Things like giving a massage to ease their pain, celebrating special days, and even just working on the relationship talking. They are all actions that show love. Everything you put in the category of things you do FOR that loved one to Show your feelings. Love just isnt some vague undefined feeling that there are never enough words to describe... the feelings are different for everyone so the dictionary references as a noun are only a foundation basic explanation. Love used as a noun is subjective and interpretation is different for everyone. So if it isn't something you can touch like a seat... how is it real? For me it is because Love as a verb is factual. Tangible. Really easy to prove because as a verb, the actions are the proof. You experience it as it happens outside of one's mind and in the real world. Love as a verb is what makes love real. If its not a verb, then when it is used as a noun we would all think of it (world wide) as a FICTIONAL or Mythological thing. Most of the world can recognize a fictional character or make believe item like invisibility cloak of Harry Potter for example. Author imagined and not "real". Maybe the subject and plot had realistic aspects, it was make believe by Rowlings and she gets paid a lot of money too I might add. Love is not supposed to be in this category is it? Love is a verb for me. __________________ Stay Gold.

12-23-2009, 10:35 AM	#1
apretty Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Preferred Pronoun?: sea shell Relationship Status: married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: san diego Posts: 1,687 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,927 Thanked 4,373 Times in 1,012 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	the dogs all tucked in around me and snoring.

12-23-2009, 10:51 AM	#2
Locutus Junior Member How Do You Identify?: Daddy Relationship Status: Open to the Possibilities Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Wichita, KS Posts: 39 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8 Thanked 23 Times in 15 Posts Rep Power: 23223	Giving someone you love the space they need...

01-09-2010, 06:42 PM	#9
FeminineAllure Member How Do You Identify?: Female Preferred Pronoun?: she Relationship Status: My rainbow is way overdue Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: PA Posts: 1,145 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,659 Thanked 2,026 Times in 555 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong __________________ Remember anyone can love you when the sun is shining...In the storm is where you learn who truly cares for you

01-14-2010, 07:15 PM	#10
violaine Timed Out How Do You Identify?: atypical Preferred Pronoun?: plague words and phrases Relationship Status: love wise guys of the avian world Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: wekiva springs basin Posts: 3,236 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,934 Thanked 3,293 Times in 1,301 Posts Rep Power: 0	;) love is at the check out - trying to hold a mini telephone conversation with love and too many things going on at once -

01-22-2010, 11:06 PM	#11
Random Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: back in the land of trees and snow Posts: 2,072 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 8,017 Thanked 5,327 Times in 1,378 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	Love is simply that... Meaning.. When you are love... Truely loved... when you love... Truely love.. then nothing changes that.. time distance communication It doesn't matter, if you see them, speak to them.. It still exists.. Love simply is... __________________ ~Volunteer~ "It gets in your blood"

01-23-2010, 01:22 AM	#12
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01-23-2010, 02:57 AM	#13
HeartBreak Kid Member How Do You Identify?: self Preferred Pronoun?: User formally Known as Tygerlily Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: my skin Posts: 372 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 260 Thanked 446 Times in 166 Posts Rep Power: 28	Love is staying AWAKE to help a friend clean....... LMAO J/k.... __________________ ~Beautiful, sobbing, high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one you love . That's All~ ~Richard Brautigan, "Deer Tracks"~ Peace and Love http://images5.cafepress.com/product...x480_Front.jpg "Pssssst.......your STEREOTYPES are showing".... ~StabbyK~

02-03-2010, 12:03 PM	#14
Blade Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: TG Preferred Pronoun?: He Relationship Status: once in a while someone amazing comes along...and here I am! Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Down on the farm Posts: 5,501 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 9,855 Thanked 14,413 Times in 4,058 Posts Rep Power: 21474857	"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." -St. Augustine

01-23-2010, 02:07 PM	#15
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01-25-2010, 11:48 PM	#16
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04-08-2025, 01:48 PM	#17
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04-08-2025, 09:28 PM	#18
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12-29-2009, 08:31 AM	#20
Softly Member How Do You Identify?: femme Relationship Status: Married Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Seattle Posts: 655 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 465 Thanked 701 Times in 253 Posts Rep Power: 3646036	Love is taking the Christmas tree down together and not wanting to kill kill kill xoxo (because my asthma was getting bad we had to take the tree down)! Love is cuddling close to my lover when the alarm goes off and I feel our cat jump right into the space on the other side of me...lol makes me all happy thinking about it ! warm body on one side and handsome black cat on the other xoxo Love is feeling warm inside when I hear our songs... Love is *want*, not need.