What is love? Please answer. :)?

Question: What is love!? Please answer!. :)!?

What is love!?
In one word describe what you think love is
ex!. acceptance, friendship, trust
what is it made of for you!? Or if you have some great quotes you want to share!. The theme of this question is LOVE! <3
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Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, and trusting them not to!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I like answering questions on here and feel im pretty good at it but i wish i hadnt stumbled upon this!
Love to me at the moment is hurtful, it destroys you if it goes wrong and hurts physically like an ache in your chest and mentally like nothing i can describe!.
Youd do anything for that person!.
Their are also different types of love mind! Like love for your kids, you would kill for them, panick if you see them in danger, enjoy everything about them from hugs to the mess they make when painting!
also the love for family like your parents, something that is inbuilt within u i think and is comfortable!.
But relationship love sucks, at the moment to me anyway! To alot of people im sure its fabulous and i envy them!!Www@QuestionHome@Com

I wish people would stop asking this question!. It is like asking "explain all the subjects (that could ever be taught,) in school is 10 words or less!.

The ancient Greeks divided love into erotic, ludic, strogic, fraternal, romantic, narcissistic, philosophic (love of wisdom,) philanthropic, manic, agapic, and about 10 more types!. These are but a drop in the bucket when you consider love for love sake, love of one's abuser, love of authority, love of rebellion, etc!.!.!.!.

What can I say about such a huge range of emotional states!. of course all anybody wants to talk about is romantic love which I think ought to be classified as a mental illness in the DSMIV!.

Romantic love is the delusion that four people can have a functional relationship: you, your fantasy, them, their fantasy of you!. Add to that someone who is young and doesn't have much idea whom their real self is and you have a restoration farce, except that children are born, diseases are transmitted and mental states are aggravated in the process!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Whenever anyone asks this question I can't help but quote Shakespeare's 116th sonnet:

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments!. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken!.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom!.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved!.

To sum up, it means accepting another as they are without wishing to change them nor wish to change for the one you love!. It is a state that remains no matter how bad things are!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more, no more! Sorry I couldn't resist!. The stupid adult answer is: "Well, son/daughter, when a man loves a woman!.!.!." blahblahblah!. I'd say love is a double edged sword!. The best feeling in the world yet sometimes you wish it didn't exist!. The strongest resolve for anything would come from love!. Here's a story:
I wuz walking down the hallway w/ a friend (that i secretly like) and a buncha assholes just stopped where the group of people were crowded the most which stopped the flow of movement!. So people were pushing and trying to get out and somehow I got out!. But then I saw my friend being pressed against the balcony by one of those insensitive assholes!. I have no idea what came over me but I pushed one guy into the other!. So she got out and we were walking when they retaliated and started throwing paper and pencils at me while shouting, "Why dont' you say that to my face, huh!?" and crap like that!. But i kept on walking!. The only thing i regretted that day was pushing him harder!. ;)Www@QuestionHome@Com

love is when you cant stop thinking about someone and just the sound of their name makes you smile, the person that can make butterflies in your stomach, the one that makes you weak in the knees just by making eye contact!. love is when you know you want to spend the rest of you life with someone and NO one can take the place of themWww@QuestionHome@Com

Who cares just grant it to me, Dear Universe!.!.!.!. How about that!? Huh!? What is Love is a judgment, look closely!.!.!.it is this or that!.!.!.!. never ending Tantalizing!.!.It cannot be intellectualized, for intellect based on judgment!.!.!. and it had been known that Love cannot be judged otherwise it fade away!. So the answer will be your own experience!. Oh there was a guy who seriously suggested "Judge Not" in any occasion!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

indescribable
impossible

it's far to hard to describe love!. seriously!. i guess i wouldnt know yet, though, would i!? maybe in a few years i'll find out and get back to you on that!.

Spencer =)Www@QuestionHome@Com

In one word!.!.!.

Forever

In more than one word I would say that love is when it would cause you pain to live without it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Love is when you cant describe what or why you feel for somebody but you know its good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Delusion of significanceWww@QuestionHome@Com

True Love -unconditionalWww@QuestionHome@Com

Is more than 1 word!. Its a phrase
STATE OF MINDWww@QuestionHome@Com

in a few words!? Love is!.!.!. the highest form of Respect!.Www@QuestionHome@Com