Is there really such a thing called love?

Question: Is there really such a thing called love!?

I don't think love exists!. A young man and a young woman "fall in love", they get married, have kids, and when they turn 40, they are no longer attracted to each other and they end up getting a divorce!. The guy buys a town-house and plays pool every night, and the woman gets remarried and "falls in love again" !.!.!.!.i thought love was everlasting, I guess I was wrong!.!.!. so, someone tell me, does love really exist!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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No, love does not exist!.
People like to pretend it does, but it doesn't!. People indulge themselves in the word "love", they imagine it to be something it's not, and in the end are disappointed!. The word "love" itself is overrated, people go around telling eachother they "love eachother", but then they break up a week later!.
In my opinion, love is a fairy-tale!. People love fairy-tales, they spark the imagination!. That is why people make movies and such out of love!. It's a fairy-tale, and so people will go imagining that it IS real, and leave filled with hope that they'll find their "true love"!.
But the reality is--love doesn't exist!. I believe it was some kind of experiment by god to see if people would mate (which they do), but that's all its used for!. In a moment of sheer attraction people feel something that they call "love", but it's not the "love" we've heard of all our lives!. Love doesn't make us live "happier ever after"!.
However, I do believe in the mutual love between family members, which I see to be something else entirely!. It's not attraction we feel towards our parents, but the neverending bond without a name; something I can only describe as "love"!.
I once heard the quote "Loving someone is giving them the power to destroy you!.", and I believe that qualifies to the "family love", but not the the other kind!. When someone close to you dies, a brother/sister/parent/grandparent, people eventually stop crying, but their souls are forever scarred by their absence!.
Whereas, you see a girl get dumped, she cries over it, but she lives on and doesn't even think about the other man when she's dating someone else!.
Anyways, enough of my rant!. Hope this answers the question xDWww@QuestionHome@Com

Love exists!. It is a feeling, not a state of mind or a plateau to reach by a certain age!. Just as anger, fear and happiness are feelings - all will change with time!. Change is inevitable!. Feelings you have for a certain person today, will be different in 5 years!. People say 'I love french fries'!. It is merely an exaggerated way of communicating their immense enjoyment of a certain person, place or thing!. The only kind of love that is eternal is the love God has for you!. Don't base your interpretations of love on tabloids, celebrities or failed marriages!. Use your own judgement and common sense!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes it really does, you must not ever have been in love yet because when you are it is so overwhelming and overpowering you know what it is, i don't think that it ever goes away either, i fell in love in 1988-89 we broke up a year later, i got married never stopped thinking about the other one got seperated in 1999 first thing i did was go to a place where i knew he hung out, ran into him, it was still there we dated again for a couple of years but unfortunately he drinks way to much and i have 2 kids so as much as i iknew i would always love him i knew it could never really be but to this day not a day goes by where i don't think of him and my heart still misses a beat when i do, so yes there really really is love for sureWww@QuestionHome@Com

it does on a certain time frame in terms of romantic relationships!. Like a fire the blaze is like a sweeping tornado at the start, then it dies out in the end!. Like death it ends for a certain life span after we fully lived our lives!.

the only non-ephemeral love is our love for God, our parents, and our brothers and sisters, or our children!.

i dont believe in romantic love, never been in love, so what can i say!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

nothing lasts forever sweetheart! i do believe love is real, but real love is elusive!. the couple you described obviously werent in love!. you will find this thing called love where and when you least expect it!. i know thats a cliche but its all ive got to offer! keep your chin up! xxWww@QuestionHome@Com

I'm currently researching the problem!. My idea is that love exists as an extreme form of joy!. The problem as it occurs to me is that such joy comes only to people who aren't trying to force it on themselves!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm not 100% sure myself, I'll let you know later, when I find out, or shouls I say, if and when I find out myself!.
(A song I know, " I wanna know what Love is ", Forigner)!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes love exists and there are three types of love, Eros: which is more or less lust, Agape: deep understanding brotherly love, Philia: is basically both!. And true love is everlasting not just love in general!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i don't know if there is real love between a man and a woman but for sure the love for my daughter is REAL!.When we become parents we realise what true love meansWww@QuestionHome@Com

Love is not perfect!.
The only perfect form of love is before anything goes wrong
which is impossible
It can happen if you want it to
Kind of like
Romeo and JulietWww@QuestionHome@Com

yeah!. i think love is a feelin of bein used and confortable around sum1, knowin u can be around em without bein worrid bout things goin wrong!.!.accepting them as who they are!.!.them doin the sameWww@QuestionHome@Com

love is what hate is what fear!.!. is what all is made of !!!

love is the thing !.!.!. and makes up its opposite!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

i believe that love is actually a type of pain!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It does!.
Your first love never dies!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i'm still a teen, but i'm hoping love's out there somewhere!.!.!.just waiting for me to stumble upon it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i have been wondering this for quite a while myself!. yes, i may only be a young adult right now, but i have seen what people claim to be 'love' my entire life!. Being the youngest of five, with the closest age to me being 7 years apart, i have witnessed all the relationships of my siblings and some have worked out while others have been wrecks!. True love, that is the question of the ages!. is there truly only one soul mate out there for you!? or are there others!? i heard a story about a woman and man, madly in 'love'!. but they are seperated by war and the man dies!. the woman is completely and utterely destroyed, not wanting to go on with life, she comtemplates suicide!. but before she can go on with the final act, she is saved by a stranger!. this stranger seems to make her feel as she never felt before, almost as she did when with her first love!. slowly sentiments start forming and they change into love!. so how i see it, i find myself seeing that, with so many people in the world, it is possible to find love again!. to have more than one love!. and dont just focus on the relationships gone wrong!. are your grandparents divorced!? are you parents!? think about all the people still together!. nowadays it seems divorces are all theyre taking about, but its because people are conforming to their own thoughts and expectancies of what they dream of!. Hollywood doesnt help!. but once you find love, you'll know you've found it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Good question!. The answer to this question I think, is fairly dull, but at least, easy to discern!. It comes down to what context you are referring to "love" in!. If by love, you mean the four letter word, love, then yes, love is a word!.

If by love you mean a concept, exclusively rationalized, as far as we know, by human beings, which is associated with what humans believe to be emotions or feelings, then yes, love exists, and it is simply that!.

If by love you mean a being, force, spirit, or essence unto itself, in and of its own right, exercising the act of existence in lieu of, or irrespective of, human existence; or whether it is an ethereal, esoteric entity, constituted of an unknown substance, yet retaining all the properties and qualities of a corporeal, real agent, (which is what you are asking), then we, as humans, arrive upon a precipice from whence we are incapable of moving forward in terms of deriving a real answer!. It cannot be known with certitude if the ambiguous sensation we collectively term love, is any more real than other intangible, potentially actual entities such as freedom, or immortality!. Love is as real as freedom is, as actual as infinity; no more, but no less either!. Is love simply a romantic euphamism for psychological or biological states which annimalia experience, or is it perhaps something more!.!.!.something we hope stands, proliferates, and thrives throughout, within, and amidst the entirety of all things!?

Love in the context of human relationships, where it is so often used to justify or define meaning, or direction, for those who engage in human interaction, copulation, bonding, expression, or intermingling processes termed "dating" or "marrying", exists at least, if nothing more, than as an idea, or an ideology/philosophy by which, and through which, sense can be made of our lives!. Does love have mass!? Does it have weight, so to speak!? Does it feed, grow, feel, interact, think, care, or believe!? These things cannot be known!.

Ultimately, the only plausible answer to your question is not so obtuse as, "I don't know", but rather, "It depends!."

I, for one, have a romantic streak in me, and like to convince myself that love was best defined by the men and women who saw it as real enough to be the muse and inspiration with which they wrote the beuatiful poetry, and inspiring sentiments, that they chose to so eloquently express to the world, the people, and the life they adored so deeply and purely!.

Great question; keep posting them!Www@QuestionHome@Com