Have you ever been in love? That is the question I pose to you, Community Discussion. Look, I even included a poll.

Stupid crushes that for a minute I thought was were love, but I guess thats how it goes.

Yes. In fact, I'm still in love and in a wonderful relationship with the girl of my dreams.

No. I thought I was once, then I realized I was hungry.

I later learned that redheads are too spicy.

:rofl:

Twice. Once with my high-school sweetheart, until the day I found out she cheated on me while I was in the military. One of the most crushing experiences of my life. Second time was with my wife. That was not like the first time, the first time it blossomed into love fairly quickly. With my wife, I was a lot more cautious with my heart, unwilling to leave it all out there. She was persistent though, day by day proving to me that her feelings were very real(keep in mind, she had just turned16 when we met(I was 20) and 2 months shy of 18 when we married), and was considerably patient with me being unwilling to express much emotion. After 6 months I was finally convinced of her emotions, and then it all poured over me in a single instant, like a flash of lightning you could say. I realized that the way she felt for me, I felt every bit as strongly for her. From there things escalated rather quickly, and now nearly 10 years later, our love is even stronger then it was back then.

I don't know. I've really, REALLY liked a guy before, but I'm not sure whether it was love considering I was only about 14 :shrug:

Maybe. :shrug:

I never been in love. I don't know what is love or what's it like to be in love. [censor] like this just makes me sad... :sadvaultboy:

Love? Is that a disease, or something?

Well, m'boy, it can be. Stabs you in the heart and kicks you below the belt. But you enjoy every stinking minute of it.

Ditto on the first count. And it's sadly missing as an option on the poll. Guess I'll just have to pick the closest equivalent.

On the second count, though, I can't really say it applies to me. I knew what I wanted very well, and while that wasn't exactly what I got, I got exactly what I needed instead. Which suits me just fine.

(Okay, it certainly wasn't my intention to evoke the Rolling Stones there... Whatever.)

Well that takes us to the concept of STDs :nuke: :sick:

I think we were infatuated at first...Ah youth!

Then we learned to love one another.

When you hear the phrase "Falling in love", it sounds like somebody fell into a pit or something.

I ain't voting...too many instances of the word..'was'.

Got you covered, man.

To answer my original question, I was indeed in love, except it wasn't very nice at all.

No.

The love I define is a verb...I don't care what the dictionary says.

Yes, until I found that he was cheating on me and only interested in me because of my physical appearance. It hurts because I love him, and I felt stupid for loving someone like him.

Funny. If you asked me this question a couple years ago I would have chosen the first poll option. But now all I can say is "maybe".


I don't know if you knew this, but dictionaries say that "love" is both a noun and a verb.

Yes. We dated for 6 years. Through high school and college. Theeeen we fell apart and that was that. It was love, then it wasn't. I can't really explain it.

That's absolutely true, and those who say they are in love had better realize that it is indeed a verb.

The Beatles sang "All You Need is Love".....then they broke up.

Yeah well, they did also sing "Your lovin' give me a thrill, but your lovin' don't pay my bills, now give me money, that's what I want".

Closer to the truth of the matter in many cases; not just theirs.
I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill & Strawberry Fields....and Strawberry Hill
(Wait! thats what she was drinking...Boone's Farm that is...Ha!).

depends on how you perceive it

I've been infatuated, and I'm going to assume that's what it was. IT was unpleasant, in fact it's still unpleasant and to some degree I'm still paying for it. A lot of regret, guilt and shame attributed to it. Yet conversely I've become more indignant about it, I beat myself senselessly for so long and accusing myself of being the biggest pig that ever lived that I'm becoming jaded to my own criticism and am now starting to think I wasn't the only guilty party. But it's anger and anxiety that I have to let go of since nothing's probably going to come of it at this point.

Im in love and hope that our feelings for eachother never change, only grow ^__^.