The fact is, animals cant buy eachother roses and stuff.
I mean, it's different "culture" in a sense, what we deem to be love an animal could find just weird.
If love doesnt exist then neither do any feeling, does happiness exist? Sadness? Remorse? Guilt?
Love exists, "A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person" love is a deep sense of caring.

love is when you care more about one specific person than yourself. that you would give anything for that person

This. Exactly.

Love is NOT sexual desire either. How do I know this? Because if I was told tomorrow that if I stay with my boyfriend, I can never have sex again for the rest of my life... I wouldn't even have to hesitate before saying that I don't care. Why? because I love him.

Love and sexual desire are two completely different things. I've never been in a relationship in my life, so I can't really tell you I know what it's like. And everyone may have their own interpretation of it. Honestly, the last time I heard that question asked, the response was love is beyond definition. It can't really be explained in words. I mean, yeah it's a close connection with two people that goes beyond regular friendship, but there's more to it than that. This is one of those emotions you just have to experience for yourself in order to grasp what it's about. Love is unpredictable, there is no set in stone explanation. One of the joys of life, the mystery of love.

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Love is many things. Love is a bond, a trust, and a comfort felt between two people that can match no other in the universe. Love is the feeling of belonging completely to the person you feel that way for, and knowing that they belong to you also. Love is giving the person the key to your soul, letting them know everything about you, knowing that they are your soul mate, and understanding who they are and how they work so perfectly with you. Love is dedicating yourself to the person, and knowing that without a doubt, they are there for you. Love is not physical or mental. It is a concept much like that of the meaning of life, the existence of God - it is something that mankind has neither intellectual capacity nor patience to understand, let alone the ability to comprehend that it may be something more than expected.

Sexual desire is a series of mental and physical reactions that happens when you are rawly attracted to someone (or, indeed, something). A mere thought or feeling can trigger such an impulse, and it is something that can on occasion be hard to control. It is something that happens between animals also, as well as humans. However, you don't see trust in, shall we say, a pair of praying mantises, do you? No, the female eats the male, in fact, or something like that.

Love is trust, dedication and acceptance beyond what we can understand.
Sexual desire is animal instinct that is most definitely in our range of understanding.

That's my opinion.

~Anya x

There is a word for sexual desire. It's called lust. Love does not equal lust. You don't even have to be in love with someone to love them. You can love how they treat you, how they listen to your problems, how intelligent they are, and more.

If you're in love with someone, all of the above applies, but you've committed yourself to them, which includes your sexual attention, but it's narrow-minded to assume that sex is the whole sum of love.

And about your comparison to animals. If I remember enough from biology, it's an animal's natural instinct to reproduce. They don't "do it" because they're in love, they do it because they want to spread their species. We have the same desire as well, but we have another complexity that makes us want to only do it with the person we're attached to.

I believe in love as an emotion, but not some magical bond that will keep you and some other perfect person together forever if they happen to be "the one" that many people are stuck on.

The reason why I think it exists is because I saw my boyfriend write this and I smiled. Why? Because when he tells me he loves me I now know the above is what he is feeling towards me. Most importantly, the fact he only feels this towards me, and no other. Love would not be love if you could love everyone in the same way; in that case it would merely be a natural feeling.

Personally, love is smiling when you're reminded of someone you feel you love.
And hence, I do not smile about anyone and everyone when I think about them.

I think that love is in the first place the most wonderful feeling in the world. Yes, it happens that this feeling causes us pain and other non-pleasant feelings, but the fact is that we can all feel. With no cold people who would not love. Love can be different. Love for friends, to parents, to his guys \ girls. But the feeling one cerns. Just everyone feels


I believe that love is a feeling, like sadness, pain, joy. Only with a different value. Be who you should be with someone.

What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me.. no more.

Yeah, animals are pretty basic as far as love goes but there are some exceptions. Plenty of animals mate for life, and I know geese in particular really watch out for and protect each other, and if their mate dies they become super distressed and sometimes become mourning loners. I don't know if it's love but it's certainly more than just "getting some".

I really like the quote Love is a verb, not a noun. It's much more than just a feeling, which people generally make it out to be. And when it's love, you know.

True words then any would be "Love is friendship set on fire." isn't that how mostly all relationships start?

the definition for love, rly cant say anyone can answer this right but in a sense love is something that rly shouldnt BE defined. doesnt mean it cant though so here is my shot. love is kind of a mixed feeling of desire and completness. both of these can cause happyness. so a biproduct of said "love". now for a more philosophical approach? love is when the bond between to people. unconditional, and for the most part. ever lasting. love is something we dont recognize at first. its like a drug. something introduced into our body. makes us do things and feel things that we dont understand. and always has a terrible comedown. btw this is going to be terribly ranty, but love is again a feeling. and feelings cant really be described fruther then i already did but it can be represented and reproduced through metaphors and scenarios. love is wanting to be with someone, and put them above yourself. not for there looks, there wits, the charm, there knowledge. or any combination of these. but just because that someone connects with you on such a deep level you cant analyze it. and if anything trying to analyze it could make it disappear all together. love is the feeling you get when you think of that person when your away from them. the feeling you get when your walking with them silently. holding each other. love is the feeling you get when your with someone. or want to be with someone. for no reason. again, there looks. not for their money. not because they can get you this or because they can get you in here. but because you WANT to be with them. just be with them. forever. you want to help them. not because you want to benefit from it or even because you want them to benefit. but because you want to help them. please them. and make them happy. i hope this helps. oh also animals. animals are the perfect form of love. first you have to understand dating. dating in a whole is NOTHING but you getting to know someone. and highschool dating pisses me off. because youll get ppl that dont understand this and wont date you because they dont know you. see the irony? anyways so dating is to learn more about someone. or anything about them if its the first. just under a more mutual agreement that you want to see if theres a relationship to build out of the two of you. animals are always together. just as though its another culture they have many lovers. people they love, or animals rather they love. always with them for no reason other then to be with them. now sex. sex is instinctual and has nothing to do with love. once you understand that love is a feeling that is a consequence of things. like being with the person you love. you can say love and sex are related but only in the terms that love is an aphrodisiac, love can compliment sex. thats about it. sex is instinct. we do it to keep our race alive. animals do it for this reason, we do it for this reason. we just happen to have a brain that relizes sex produces orgasms. so we have sex to produce orgasms. orgasm or babies. again i hope this helped

Love is that, without your interference you get hurt when someone is get hurt.

@fodom2010
no ones going to read that long ass paragraph lol, I know I didn't

Agreed. Looks like someone had a bit too much time on their hand.

hahaha..