Is love real?

[Bush Girl]

Where does it come from? How do you get it? Is it like a disease? Is it just a fabricated cultural expectation that we all dream into being? Does anyone care about anyone else? How do you show love to someone else? Would you do something horrible for someone you love? Why? Can love be understood without ever speaking a word? If you love someone, do you have to cut everyone else out of your life to make room for only them? Do you believe in it? Is there anything wrong in believing in it? What if no one ever loves you? Can you survive?

[Virginia Evans]

Love and suffering are not the same thing. I think a lot of people get confused about that. It reminds me of the whole "you can't be at your best creatively unless you use a mind-altering substance." Lots of people believe the same way about love: unless you feel out of control, it's not real.

On the other hand, tortured love stories make for better songs ;)

[Stoo Nicol (DJ Profile)]

I'd say so Vee,

but I would also say that most people really don't know what it is, I've met a lot of people who wanna just throw it out there to see what it feels like, people who are in love with being in love.

I'd never cut anyone out of my life for love, I think that's more obsession than love lol

I can survive just fine without love lol but I prefer it.

[Trevor]

I agree with this.
That is the hard part.

Kimberley Arnold said:

Love is real, and falling and/or staying in love is easy. It's the relationship that takes work!

[Jeremy Perron]

The Force is Love, the Love of the Universe flows through all life, all matter; all is energy all is light and all is love.

There, that just about sums it up..

It's the bit about Falling I don't like..

[Gil]

Love is most certainly real and takes many forms. You know it when you feel it but in today's world it becomes oh so difficult to be open enough to feel Love at times. The key, at least for me, is to open yourself up to the beauty of the moment you are living in. Not easy to do but having children really helped me learn this. This is one of my favorite songs on the subject, my take on John Lennon's LOVE:

[Indigo]

as a lady who's been happily married for the last 7 years to a man that I wouldn't be able to live without....yeah love absolutely exists.

I don't think it's what people generally think of as 'love' however all the airy fairy romantic notions aren't love for me at least love is a deep abiding respect and admiration for a person which is returned.

Where does it come from? wow...that's a great question, I don't think it comes from anywhere in particular but exists all around us and when the time is right and we're ready to experience it it manifests.

How do you get it? I think you don't get it until you are ready to give it, when you are more concerned with 'getting' than 'giving' love then you're not ready to experience true love.

is it a fabricated expectation - I think 'romance' is fabricated ...don't get me wrong I'm very romantic, hey it's fun so why no...but just like sex...it's a nice companion to love but it isn't love itself.

Does anyone care about anyone else?....absolutely that's the basis of love, when you realize that you care more about your partners happiness than anything else then you know that you're in love for real.

Would I do something horrible for someone I love....good question, I guess that it would depend on what the circumstances were. I don't think Ross would ever ask me to to begin with but hey if I had to do something horrible to keep him safe and alive yeah I more than likely would.

Can love be understood without ever speaking a word? I'm assuming that you mean like 'love at first sight' and no I don't believe in that...I believe you can get a crush on your 'idea' of what a person is like but until you get to know them for real that's all your really 'in love' with ...an idea.

No you don't have to cut people out of your life...you learn to share the people in your life with the person you love and that in and of itself stops any jealousy issues...that said I have a very strict policy if the people who come into my life don't absolutely respect my relationship and my partner then they aren't in my life period....my husband has this same policy so we are never threatened by the people who come in and out of our lives.

What if no one ever loves you? I think that's more of an impossibility than anything... and again I'd have to say if a person believes that they're more interested in the 'getting' than the 'giving' and I'd think they'd need to worry more about if they will ever love anyone than the other way around. True love is selfless.

[Djay Buddha]

Love is very real.. To find true love, you first have to truly love yourself.
To truly love yourself you have to accept that there are some things you can change and some you cannot.
Change only the things you can change for yourself and no one else..

[john starcluster]

i used to think love was merely an ideology enforced by powers to keep people enslaved to nation states, taxpaying, production and mental-moral programming.

then i fell in love DEEP.