If u can explain it too me, then I don’t really think you really know what love is.
You’re awkward. 
I suspect that:……Love is one of a number of different names given to a state whereby the brain ceases to take any note of the inputs from the senses and all ego-induced critical thought. It is therefore the natural background state in which mind exists.
I suspect that………It is the immediate state in which one finds oneself when taking ones leave of this earth. I suspect that one should immediately GO wherever one is drawn, in this state, with no regrets and no looking back: that will come in good time, if you so wish.
I suspect that an identical feeling is produced through meditation, hypnosis and prayer. It merely depends on the circumstances in which one finds oneself when the feeling strikes as to whether the response is “I am refreshedâ€,†I have found myselfâ€, "I have communed with God†or “ I am in loveâ€.
I certainly know people who have believed themselves in love, people who swear by the feeling and energy produced by meditation, I have known somebody who went into the church as a direct result of such an experience and I have had an overwhelming feeling of happiness, quite out of the blue, when under hypnosis.
Seems to me we all had something in common; and I fully expect to find out more one day. Wonderful, isn’t it?
If you’re a male, you don’t fall in love.
You operate on lust, and concede the rest to keep the female around.
Unless you are lucky enough to find a female who shares your primal zeal for living, and doesn’t require emotional bartering.
Then you have achieved an equal relationship not requiring obsequious constructs.
True love is equally as painful as it is pleasureable.
Because there is no edification in self, self is empty and without worth, it’s lonely and hopeless, in short it’s Hell. Love is about others, not self, so it is the only way to escape Hell.
I know what love is…
law of attraction, Dan, it’s like a magnet, attraction and repulsion, an atom loving another atom, even inside the atom, the females orbiting around the male.
How about stop asking questions for a while and start answering some of the other posters? I’d like to hear your views.
There is a danger in reasoning from your own personal experiences to the general.
I am a male. The above statement is definitely untrue about me.
Yeah, Mas, I’m gonna go with Navigator on this one.
Then there are two possible options:
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You are a male enculturated into the delusion of social construct, thus sacrificing your masculinity to paradigm beliefs predicated upon weakness.
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You are completely oblivious to the fact you are built to be a predator, so you lie to yourself.
You are completely entitled to do so, I just see the sociality of it, and find it to be utter bullshit.
Which means we agree to disagree.
Why did I fall in Love?
Why of course someone held a gun to my head,
I mean why else would a guy fall in love anyway.
As you get older, one finds being in “love” is far
less important then one would think.
Kropotkin
Ooh wah, ooh wah
Ooh wah, ooh wah
Ooh wah, ooh wah
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of the day
Why do they fall in love?
Why does the rain fall from up above?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do they fall in love?
Love is a losing game
Love can be a shame
I know, Im a fool you see
For that fool is me
Tell me why
Tell me why
Why do birds sing so gay
And lovers await the break of the day
Why do they fall in love?
Why does the rain fall from up above?
Why do fools fall in love?
Why do they fall in love?
Why does my heart
Skip a crazy beat?
For I know
It will reach defeat
Tell me why
Tell me why
Why do fools fall in love?
Tell me why
Tell me why
Usually I like what people have to say, but I will respond.
The way you define love is the same as the presocratic I think Empedocles, the concept of love and strife.
My concept.
Love is a language
language is the purpose of defining the unknown.
Therefore the hypothesis of defing the unknown is always wrong, and no conception of what is true can ever be done, perhaps only specualtion.
Or:
- I am a male able to understand that all phrases such as “sacrificing your masculinity to paradigm beliefs predicated upon weakness” are a form of pigeonholing, a complete insult to my intelligence, and an invitation to express REAL weakness by knuckling under to them merely because a man with a wolf avatar, whose own masculinity is so threatened that he feels a need to buttress it with “predator” stereotypes, attempts to browbeat me into doing so.
Nice try, though. 
I’ve moved this thread to Psychology because I couldn’t find anything of religious content whatsoever.
JT - Moderator
it’s a spiritual connection.
Some criteria is that they have an opposite spiritual energy. Parrellel energies get along together. Witch is the hipocracy of the club scene,… for alcahol is a bodily amplifier not a spiritual amplifier. So when drinking like energies know eachother and use the amplified hormones. Yet when hormones ware down, there isn’t much to keep the relationship together. They love things about eachother, and try to perpetuate that.
Love requiers you to sustain; hope, joy, love, peace/understanding, trust. After all you can only get from a relationship what you give. That’s any relationship.
Love is what you feel when you see that, well, girl, and the only true reason you like her is because you’re “in love”. All the other reasons are excuses, attempting to explain something that was purely unconscious.
Look to the sciences:
Sexual Selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection
Evolutionary Psychology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
I will take the high road and merely say that the why is merely a result of the how, the why is merely you are sitting there and it happens. The how would be a much more interesting question, I think the why is contigent on it.