What is your view on love?

[Tyreek]

My mom had granted me 1 piece of advice when I was getting over my previous phase of finding love.

"Don't look for love. You let it come to you."

To this day, I have felt happier with that advice given. I found it better to have an evolving friendship over time. If something deeper were to come from it, than I wouldn't mind seeing where it goes. But until then, I'll be having fun on my own terms.

[FOkyasuta]

Better to have not loved at all then to have loved. If a hole through your cash and family wasn't enough, How about your heart? I don't think so! In short, Find something else productive to waste your time.

[Outrider]

Yeah, I can definitely say that I've experienced a ton of pain due to love. I've been shot down, I've been lead on, I've had my heartbroken and I've watched people I love go through terrible situations.

Sure, it sucked at times. But overall, the good far outweighs the bad. Yeah, pain sucks and you may want to convince yourself that opening yourself up to this kind of thing is a sign of weakness, but that's life. Sometimes it's rough, but if you never take these kinds of risks you're going to miss out on some the best things in life.

And hey - as a few people have mentioned, there are lots of different kinds of love. Let's not narrow things down to just romantic love. Platonic love is pretty awesome as well!


Also:

Marriage? Eww. The L word?

L-worded

[Leviathan]

Love can be great.

My cat gave my mom dead mice and birds to show love, I think that's pretty neat way to express it.

[CupOfCoffee]

Outrider and Levi, I like the cuts of your jib.

[Palle]

My cat gave my mom dead mice and birds to show love, I think that's pretty neat way to express it.

From what I've read, this is actually an expression of disdain for your mom's terrible hunting skills. The cat is saying, "this is how you do it, rookie."

[RenzokukenZ]

It's a double-edged sword for the most part.

[Mike]

Love can be great.

My cat gave my mom dead mice and birds to show love, I think that's pretty neat way to express it.

That's not love, that's just a cat being a cat.

[Robert_Garcia]

I see it as quaint.

Overall though, if I do ever fall in love with someone, I'd have to trust them 100%.

[redroses]

You all have very interesting views, even the ones they say love is useless/overrated. I could never agree with such a statement but I truly resptect it, eventough I guess I find it quite sad. I just think there is nothing more awesome then those special moments you share with your partner. It's waaay different then of rexample hanging out with your buddies in a bar and laughing around or doing the same with a partner.

Like others said, I am not sure love really works if you are looking for it. It will just be forced and you end up with a partner that is ok and cool, but in the end not really what you are looking for. I guess it ends up being more of a short crush on that person then anything else.

And to marriage again, I would only like to marry so me and my fiance could be husband and wife and of course so we could have the same name. I have nothing to do with religion and never had. And especially my mother is no rolemodel when it comes to marriage. But I still believe it can work out, as long as you keep on working on the relationship(as long as there is still love involved of course).