What’s the difference between like, love, and in-love?

Love is a series of actions. Being in love doesn't take any effort...that's why dating is so fun.

I can tell you that I knew I was going to marry my wife the second time I met her (the first time, I thought she was already married!). This was something that went far beyond the usual horniness that occurs with youth. We have been together for over 20 years now and we've endured a lot and shared a lot of good times. Now that I'm older, I think that cooking is actually more important than sex :). Basically, Liking someone is enjoying their company periodically, in-love is a pre-occupation with a person that borders on obsession, and loving someone is caring about someone in all times, good, bad, or otherwise.

Finnish does not have the precisely same trichotomy. There are words for liking, being infatuated and loving. The word "love" is probably understood mostly as "being in-love". When a Finn says "I love you" it is probably a tad more intimate than the English counterpart.

Unrequited love is called either "infatuation" or "unrequired love".

If you really want to hammer home that you and I are "in-love", you can say "we love eachother".

The important questions, however, are pretty much the same. How do I know this feeling is liking or loving? If I only had the answers...

Fortunately, the mad rush of infatuation is easy to recognize. Even in others :-)
The questions

Your thoughts are always appreciated Derek. Thank you!

Interesting post. I've always believed that Love is a decision.

For a friend, I will be there for things they need.

For someone I love, I'm there for anything they need.

For someone I'm in-love with, I will take a bullet if they need it.

The tough part is hoping that the person you're in love with would do the same. That's the beauty of love, you leap for them and hope that you can fly because otherwise all you're doing is falling.

love washes over a multitude of things, it is a choice. To be "in" love is a temporary me, not a resolved, confident, and determined me.

The Shona in Zimbabwe eliminate this question by having the same word for like, love, and want. :-D "kuda"

Like = Attraction
Love = Distraction
In-Love = Disorientation

I think feeling sorry for someone is the lowest form of love. Loving an ex wife because of the wonderful person she is (albeit all the rotten names she called you) Being In Love with someone Generally denotes Having a relationship on several levels:Physical,Sexual,Emtional and spiritual. That is the difference between loving someone and being in love.To be In Love there must be a passionate physical,sexual,emotional connection otherwise you just love someone. However if your spouse or lover becomes incapacitated and you would stay with Her or Him everyday and clean them and bathe them and dress them and feed them then this is extraordinary Love that goes above and beyond the Norm and is "True Love"!

Took me a while to use the word "love" in English for material things. This word in English is quite a bit broader than in many other western languages. Some say the English broad meaning diminishes the word in a love relationship, but that ain't necessarily so. Love actually means "need". In-love is a great word for having realized a mutual need between two people. Hopefully that word would quantify the feeling and reality from that moment on, forever. Liking is temporary and can change at any time, and often pretty arbitrarily, too.

Derek,
To me like is casual and a partial feeling.
Love is whole or complete.Real or true love can only be a complete "ONE".It's like being pregnant either you are or your not.You can't be a little pregnant or have a little love and call either of them real?
ONE LOVE! paythecreator!

Love is when you are furious at someone for being so rude and unthoughtful, but you think about the days when you were first dating and all the anger disappears.

Those initial first impressions and feelings were so strong that it is impossible to carry a grudge. That is love!

If I like someone it means they've made an impact on me that makes me want to spend more time with them. Something about them makes me like myself.

Love is way too complex. But, when you say you're in love with someone it sort of implies the other person is in love with you. The two people are IN love. They are mentally in that state of mind.

You know, Lauryn Hill has an album about this very subject. If you haven't heard it you should listen to it.

One type of love that I am happy to have in my life is the word used in Holy Scripture for unlimited, unconditional,unmeritted, love. In the New Testament (in the Greek) it is: Agape (pronouced "a-Gup-aye" from the Greek. This type of love supersedes all others as it is not based on human conditions, places, time, etc.,
In essence, this is the kind of Love that God had/has towards His creation in Christ. What Joy!!

Ive never had anyone love me unconditionally. There have always been strings or expectations. The true AGAPE love that is taught in the Bible is a goal we should all aim for.
Jesus loves us with agape love. Wish I had that myself.

I remember the last time a woman said that to me, "I'm not in love with you but I do love you." which after awhile I discovered that what that really meant was she was "EXTREMELY PISSED OFF" and that my ass was grass and she was not going to take it anymore. I guess, so much for any kind of real searching of our true feelings and being able to really say what is on our mind; let passive-aggressive behavior be the soup "de jour" on our daily menu of human communication.
Thanks, Derek for this theme as I now have a topic for a speech that I must give this evening. It should bring a chuckle and perhaps, even a few tears.

Like is a positive feeling. Love is a decision and a commitment - regardless of feeling. In love is 37 years tomorrow (10/07/2009) that I first kissed my wife and told her that I loved her and I still want to kiss her and tell her I love her every time I see her.

I try to love everyone (one of those weird Christian things). Some folks make that more difficult, but I guess that's the test.

Being in love is a condition that, to me, seems to involve sending your brain out for a taco dinner, while all major Life decisions are made by one's gonads.

For more information, see my CD "All In" or, for that matter, anyone else's...

Like: Is someone you can stand and talk to, like a friend.

Love: Is someone you also "like" but, who you care about enough for that you would make certain sacrifices for... someone you would miss when they are gone.

InLove: is like love but amped up a thousand fold, they are who you sacrifice everything for would be devastated without and are who you "need" to be with.
That is the person you write songs about, who rush home to be with, who you care about more than yourself.

Thank you Derek. Good question, and got the brain and heart in the right place. Thanks. -william

Loosing "in love" hurts more and for longer than like or love.It's a matter of degrees. For me though, in love is reserved for one person. I can also love things, like sushi, but I can't be in love with it.

two points:

technically speaking, there is no such thing as love.

also, if there were such a thing as love, it could never exist without hate existing as well.

your posts are always much appreciated!

To me liking is something our brain does. Loving is something my heart understands. Being in love is something I'd rather not try to figure out.

Liking someone is that initial meeting, or being attracted to what they've said, or how they dress. It may become a friendship, and nothing more, in which case the "in Love" part is bypassed. Being in love is when the chemicals basically scream out, "Compatible! Compatible! OMG!!!"
Loving someone after that is the most rewarding. They accept you for who you are (and for who you are not), and you love them likewise. And you can still like them and feel "in love"... Why not?

"Music is love in search of a word."
--Sidney Lanier

Like, love and in-love
are like
coffee,
coffe with sugar and cream,
and
coffe with sugar and cream spilled
on you lap

HI Derek, first of all, what a beautiful photo of the elderly couple in the hamac. Absolutely stunning..if that isn't love then what is love? that photo says it all. Well, I'll tell you a quick story:a number of years ago I was the director of classified ads for an entertainment newspaper in Montreal called the Montreal Mirror. I placed an ad in myself for free and which said that I was going to write a book about love and I ask people to send me by writing on paper what they thought love was. I received many responses. One person wrote me 25 pages of what he thought love was. I read everything and at the end I realized I have no idea what love is. So I sat down at my piano and wrote the track No-one knows what love is which is on my cd Slowly the Day Goes By (on cdbaby). I believe Derek love has as many definitions and realities and meanings as there are stars in the milky way and beyond. It is too complicated to define in any way. All we know is that it is a certain feeling that is deep and makes one feel so close to the other yet keeping one's precious independent self. Scott Peck's book the road less traveled is a great book to study on this subject. But no book can explain what loving feelings really are. thanks Derek for bringing this topic up. That was a loving gesture on your behalf to share that with us. Love and light, Mark

"Falling in love" may happen, "Being in love" may not last,
"Loving" has intention, is a decision.

Hey Derek, love your blogs by the way..

It depends on ones own personal meaning to the phrases.
In my understanding...
In Love usually means.. Your attracted to someone due to their material qualities.. Usually its an infatuation.
Love Means that you are looking deeper than the material and seeing the soul of the person..
And only then can you really love.. because if your not experiencing love on the bases of seeing the soul.. then it is always subject to change. And it can never be a complete love.. because your in love with someones beauty.. or wealth.. or country.. but you dont like another person because he is not a part of the same country.. That is the incompleteness of "in love".
Love is more universal and unconditional.

With love
Srikala

Like = appreciation of another being
Love = unselfish nurturing of another being
In Love = idealization of another being, often prompted by sexual attraction.

"Like" is someone who brings donuts.

"Love" is someone who brings you donuts, but it's a Boston Cream.

"In love" is when it's a Boston Creme delivered to the shower :)

"Like" and "Love" are similar to the Shrek proverbial onion. They are multi-layered in both intensity and difficulty at various times. These onions may appear in our hands out of mid air upon meeting someone, but by & large they are things we are constantly handing out to people in some way.
Being surrounded or immersed in love (or the senses & feelings we associate with it).....that is the onion we hold on to and use to put on our sandwiches and cook into our meals.

To me the difference between Like , Love and In Love,is true honesty with oneself. While I certainly appreciate your loss of value approach, The Desert Island Disc perspective of a partner is where I tend to reside. In my observations, I have concluded that fear is never a good adhesive.

Love is a feeling of the heart.If you have been with a partner and don't have that special glow.
Then you are not in love.Love encompasses all facets of life.

I wrote this lyrics once, and the music too ... I still have to make a hit out of it, though.

I like what I love
I love what I like
but I know beyond that line
I'll find out that I'm in love

I like what I love
I love what I like
I don't want to cross that line
I don't want to loose control

like and love still let you in control ... unlike being in love, where you become a puppet.

someone above said love is a decision-I feel it's a reaction beyond reason and logic and it can't be steered successfully-it has it's own mind!
thats my 2 cents-thanks derek for provoking thought on so many topics

pretty sure it's about loving life...which includes the animals around us, the air we breathe, the company we keep at so many different levels - that's what makes it all work. and everyone's right - it's a mix of need & want & hope & biological urges like the way we respond to chocolate (we want it!) and vegetables (good for you, but ya kinda gotta make yourself eat a lot). loving life & what it brings each day - that rocks.

I think a huge percentage of any of our relationships is geographical (less so now with internet dating) and life-context-related. Think of all the pre-arranged marriages for the last few thousands of years.

"Do you believe in destiny, that even the powers of time can be ordered to a single purpose? The luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds true love."

This line is from one of my all time favorite movies and music scores- 1992 Brahm Stoker's Dracula (The Francis Ford Coppola version) When Dracula looks at Mina and says "I've crossed oceans of time to find you" Now that is true love!

Like is a preference, love is a choice.

In Hebrew, there are three kinds of love. As explained to me by a friend, they are friendship, commitment, and the sexual/sensual expression of love.

I suppose "like" is friendship, "love" is friendship and commitment, and "in-love" is all three.

OUR SOCIETY TENDS TO MAKE THAT QUESTION VERY DIFFICULT, BUT IT'S REALLY PRETTY EASY.

If you start saying the same things at the same time, your in love.

If you smile and nod to the in-laws almost all the time, over time, your in love.

If the other person speaks your language when no one else does, your in love.

If there's not the slightest doubt that you could see yourself married, your in love.

If over time you doubt everyone you date all the time it's either them or you. It's commonly never both, so once 'that' issue is resolved and one can think with greater clarity, the one for you will become more evident.

...Point being, if the 'unnecessary' barriers of doubt are removed, then when you know, you know. Get counseling if necessary and don't have kids no matter what. That's kept me married for over a decade anyway.

NOTE: This is what I found, 'being in love, which, romantically is what matters most, at least to myself. What 'love is' allows more to an opinion than a condition as sometimes how love is defined by most is not the same as 'being in love.'

This is the exact reason I don't usually write "love" songs!!! There are so many other subjects that are sooooo much more interesting to write about. They may take a bit more effort, but does the world really need any more "love" songs?

Best of the three "answers":
“Like is liking someone, but conditionally. Love is liking someone unconditionally. In-love is just glorification of a temporary infatuation. Eventually it becomes love.”
But c'mon Derek....we really want to know what YOU think here!! ;~) oxo
I don't know what I think yet. It's confusing. That's why I'm asking. Loving the replies so far. — Derek

In Love is the feeling of Twitterpation

When the Heart Beats in
Anticipation

Touching the object of
Affection

Love is the desire to be
Forever next to the one you see

Like is the accepting of thee
A friendly gesture to agree

I like the latter of the 3 responses - and unfortunately sometimes you don't know the true answer until after they have died.

How ironic, my wife and I are celebrating our 8th Anniversary today! :) Love you Tracy!

Well, It took me 40 years to figure out what LOVE is.. I think I got it now. LOVE is a mothers hot chicken soup on a cold day. "Like" is how you feel about your peers in school and at the club. "IN LOVE" is infatuation. This would be dreaming of hot sex with your neighbor, (without them knowing) it.

I asked a question like this last week on FB: How do you know when you're in love? How do you when it's gone from a being a crush to being in love?

Got lots of juicy replies from folks.

After much contemplation (I found it a difficult thing to articulate), part of what makes me know that I'm getting serious about someone is that, at night when I sleep, they start appearing in my dreams.

Great photo!

I love reading everyones responses!

nothing

they are both illusions

Hi Derek, I love that you posted this and like Jimi also love reading everyone's responses. For me, ultimately Love is a choice, not a feeling.

Love is out of our hands. If you cerebralize about if you in love or not, your not. Love is beyond your control. When people are bound together in ways beyond human, in ways beyond thier own "I,ego,me", that's love. You can seek love, you can need love, you can want love, you can crave love, you can fear love, but you can not make it happen. Like everything else beyond human, you just know when your in love. Your mind may try to muddle things up, but you always know.

I can say that in Portuguese we have different words to describe the several 'states':

Like - "Gostar";
Love - "Amar";
In-love - "Apaixonado";

You may love without liking or being in-love.

You may be in-love without loving but you have to like

You may like without loving or being in-love.

Cheers

Good question : here's what I'm learning.

"in-love" is generally emotional infatuation. Neuro science can pinpoint unusual activity to specific areas of the brain, which re-route decision making processes. Over time this hyper activity returns to normal. This gets many relationships going, but can't ever sustain them.

"love" has little to do with emotions, or at least not the intense bubbly kinds. You love someone when you make a committment to them to stick together through good times and bad. Love over the long haul means a committment to fidelity and kindness in spite of circumstances. Loves seat is in character, not in emotion.


thanks for the opportunity to share.

Love is the like the blues, if you've never had it, you ain't got a clue.

Maybe there's something interesting in looking at "how we get there"?
We FALL in love, while we TAKE a liking to someone. I guess that would imply that loving someone is something that happens to us, while liking someone is something we, to some extent, consciously "decide."
Being IN LOVE would imply that rather than being in good health, deep shit or Timbuktu, one is simply in love. I love that expression in English. In Danish, and most other Scandinavian languages, to my knowledge, two lovebirds would be "forelskede" - meaning "inloved". The French speak of falling (tomber) in love, just like in English, the Germans (yes, there is such a word as love in German = liebe) have it like the Scandinavians, since they're also "inloved" or "verliebt"... but I'm rambling...

Our capacity to love is endless but unfortunately we spend a lot of time in situations, relationships and work that sometimes bars us from elevating that love to the next level.
How do we tap into a greater love may be a follow-up story at a 201 level class? Imagine.

Love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. Love is not proud, rude self seeking or easily angered. Love keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. I can't take credit for the definition. It comes from the Holy Bible.

Being In Love calls you to be.

It does not matter who or what the object of your In Love is.

That phrase, "you make me want to be a better man" is indicative of being In Love.

That's why it might also scare women away, because they understand that on some level that's what it means.

Being a Douchebag is easy.

On the other hand, Being Great is impossible without being In Love.

If you can describe love, then you really don't know what it is.

I think there is only love and hate (also known as fear), and they are two sides of the same coin. How many times have people been in love only to break up and begin hating each other? How many of us have heard "I love you but I'm not in love with you?" I think these things happen when people realize they care very deeply about someone but they have also been hurt by them, or they discover that the object of their affection is not perfect in every way and they don't know how to reconcile these conflicting emotions because we as a society have come to believe that love is perfect and pure and painless. So I would say 'in-love' can be a whole variety of things - sometimes it's not love at all but an infatuation. Or 'in-love' is the presence of love without hate, when a relationship has not yet been tainted by human imperfection. True Love with a capital L is loving and hating someone at the same time yet being able to find harmony instead of discord in this delicate, illogical balance.

Donna Larson; I parafrased that very place in a song I wrote for my wife, and gave to her on the day of our wedding, 10 years ago (call me cheap - but hey, she liked it).
I'll just quote verse 3 and the chorus:

In Paul’s letter to the Corinthians
He speaks of the blessings loving lends
And although true love may not seek its own
I will seek you, should you wander too far from home

And as we look inside our hearts tonight
You know we’ll find it’s true
There’s something old, something new
Borrowed And Blue

I just have a quote of mine to share. 'Cause I just can't explain Love. True Love is like staring into the eyes of God.

"Love pours down on us like heavy rain. And, though it soaks us, we still claim to be foresaken."

(c)2002, TommyHeld

"Love" is found in respect,patience, forgiveness and endurance.
"In love" seems to follow the Burger King motto, "Your Way Right Away"
"Like" can be situational and fickle.
All 3 execute our abilities to make powerful decisions that will effect us forever. Choose wisely.

The difference between like, love and romantic love can be found in one of the most beautifully written books on the neuroscience of love called "A General Theory of Love". I came across it while doing research for a cabaret/concert/science lecture on the neuroscience of romantic love called "Brain Chemistry For Lovers". It was hands down my favorite book on the subject - not just going into the science of romantic love, but all forms of love. It changed the way I perceive ALL human relationships and that perception shift then changed my life.

Here's an excerpt from the book:
“From birth to death, love is not just the focus of human experience but also the life force of the mind, determining our moods, stabilizing our bodily rhythms, and changing the structure of our brains. The body’s physiology ensures that relationships determine and fix our identities. Love makes us who we are, and who we can become. In these pages we explain how and why this is so.”

For more info you can read my blog about the book here:
http://www.valeriedaysings.com/a-general-theory-of-love/

1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body ◙ to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

Love does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

Love does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.


For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.





Title: The Holy Bible, New King James Version
Edition: Third
Copyright: Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Publisher Location: Nashville, Tennessee

The eternal question, Derek ...

My band was booked into a club on Haight St.

San Francisco in summer 1977 by a young lady

who loved the band. We knew by the end of

the evening we liked each other a lot. We

moved in together within a month and were

married in 1979. We've raised a child, very

successfully, and seen each other through

many life changes. I still like my wife more

than anybody I know. I love her more than I

can imagine, and I feel that I fall in and out

of love with her all the time. I wrote one

song for her - Everything Beautiful Is You -

and I thought that said it all. But now as you

ask, I'm thinking you can't love someone

you don't like, even though you can like

someone and not be in love with them. I'm

convinced that like, love, and In Love all have

to co-exist at some point in a long-term

devoted relationship. Love is a lot like music:

during a life of music love and devotion, you

never learn EVERYTHING about music. So

too, with love. If we had the answer to the

Eternal Question we'd all pick up our toys

and go away due to lack of interest.

Larry Hunter

So for what reason do we have to label these things? All of it is just a choice in any given moment. An interesting point of view that can change every 10 seconds if we choose. As soon as you label anything you limit the infinite possibilities of what it could be or might become (in my 'interesting point of view') and when you put it into a box like that, it's hard to see outside the box. Besides, as you can tell from the above barrage of comments, everyone has their own ideas anyway, so even if you did find your answer, what would that really get you in dog years? I don't think we can "define our way into a relationship" by drawing lines between various concepts, but maybe you were just stirring the pot a bit and giving people something to ponder & I totally missed the point?

"In-love" happens the first few months, to a year or so, before each party learns about the other's crap. Or, they are in denial about the crap that bothers them about the other.

It's no fluke that there aren't sequels to romance novels.

It's a drug. Hence, Rodgers and Hart's "Falling In Love With Love".

True love, whether romantic, platonic, or familial, still supports the person after knowing their crap: INTIMACY.

However, that doesn't necessarily mean being in an active relationship with them.

We make so many distinctions about love (in love, love, like, etc.), not because one thing really is love and another isn't, but because the varying manifestations of love serve many different purposes. Being in love serves to pull people together. Particularly today, when our "tribes" are so small or non-existent, being in love helps overcome the "stranger factor." Loving serves the purpose of fostering companionship and of bringing out goodwill, and so on. We get confused because we're trying to talk about something all pervasive as if it were present in discrete packages. Imagine standing at the ocean shore with someone who points to a particular wave and says, What kind of wave do you think that one i?. If that other person is a scientist, s/he can tell you a lot about the various waves, but to you and me, it just looks like one big ocean. That's how it is with love.

In Italy "Love" is "Amore"...
"In love" is "Innamorato"...
it's quite different as you can see...

For me it has to do with the quality of 'sound' in the intonation of how one speaks about love.
The deeper the love, the deeper the quality of the 'tones'.
Unconditional love goes the deepest in quality.
...and we are constantly changing our tones along with how we feel.

Love your enemies and bless those who persecute you. Love your neighbor as you would yourself. That covers everyone! Now out of everyone, the one you want to spend the rest of your life with, after carefully weighing everything out, is the one you're in love with. Finally, don't have sex until you're married and become one flesh, that's when you have universal permission. Life is merely a test, and we all want to pass!

Being "in love" means you fancy the pants off them as well as "love" them. And "to love" is an action, not just a feeling. That's how it feels to me.

Believe me, you must LIKE the person you LOVE or are IN-LOVE with. In-Love is a very fleeting emotion that might last 2 to 3 mos. tops. After that time you must LIKE the person in order for LOVE to flourish and grow.

Love is defined by Merriam-Webster as “A deep and tender feeling of affection for or attachment or devotion to a person." I think that liking something or someone has a lot of similar traits, whereas, being in love with someone, on the other hand, involves the same feelings as love, but includes a sexual attraction or a “head over heels” component as well – and therein lies the difference between them. In short, we love our family members and dear friends, but we are in love with our spouses and partners.

I think that 'in love'is a kind of spiritual realization that occurs because you are so focused on the one you love that you have practically no attention left over for your ego. The ecstasy we feel in love is really a result of completely relaxing the usual self-attention that a human is ordinarily obsessed with, in favor of the 'selfless' obsession with the one we love.
It doesn't usually last that long, though, so people seldom recognize what is really happening and then are left with just a longing for the state to return, which it does, if you are lucky.
But as a species we recognize its importance as can be seen by the deference often shown to a couple 'in love' but that, otherwise, is reserved only for babies, madmen and the clergy.
'Like' is like the training wheels for love.
And 'love' is , as everybody knows, the answer. It obviates the question.

I like beer

I love chocolate

I am in love with anyone who will provide me with both.

Well, I do know this:

A LOVE OBJECT is one you desire. I have had lots of these simply because, as an artist, I need a focus to wrap scenes and songs around. Not a bad gift to give anyone, and besides, I am not a stalker. Think of courtly love and the minstrel.

A LOVER is someone who also LOVES YOU.

Liking and love? The difference is endurance.

People tend to use "love" quite freely. I'm one of the offenders.
Like is how I feel about casual acquaintences that I would spend time with at a party, standing in line, the cashiers at the supermarket, anyone who smiles at me, etc.
Love is all encompassing. I love my friends, my cat, my children and my husband; not necessarily in that order. I care deeply about all of them, but in different ways. I love my cat because he's sweet and soft. I love my friends because they're "beautiful people." We look out for one another and help out when we're needed. My kids, well, those are the ones you love just because they're your kids. It's sometimes a chore, but it's always there. I love my husband because he's everything to me.
Being in-love is that first rush of emotion when you meet that special "someone," and the next one and the next one. It's great while it lasts, but usually once you get to know a person, warts and all, the glow goes away and so does the person.

Like? many formats for the phrase just as there is for love, you may love your close friends or how someone performs or basically acts in life & treats others, where like can be a little more dense! "In Love" to me is completely different, as you mentioned Derek if someone died you were in love with then you too would want to die, another person remarked that they would catch a bullet for someone they are in love with, I agree with both of you! I waited my whole life to actually fall in love, its amazing, unconditional & can easily be everlasting if with the right person who feels the same way giving back the same feelings, everything in life becomes so much more pleasant to deal with, I truly wish for everyone to experience such:)

Like is intellectual.
Love is emotional.
In Love is chemical.

"Love is the principal of existence, and life's only end" - Benjamin Disraeli

In love, in like, and whatever are moot classifications. Love just is.

By definition, Love is a living spirit that is created between two people. It is as alive as you and I. And can be killed just as easily. This spirit is connected God, who is a spirit being of pure 100% Love. It is reflected in the things you do and say and how you think.

Love is not an emotion, as emotion is a physical response to thought patterns regarding circumstance and imagination. Love, when it is real, just is. Love just is. The only thing you can do with Love is give it via actions and thought, and receive it through grace.

Love just is.
And it is the reason we are alive, just in case you are looking for some kind of meaning in your life...
Love just is.

Finding a partner isn't about "Can I live with this person forever?" its "Can I live WITHOUT this person?"

As Jodi Foster said in "Contact" when she couldn't express what she saw or felt, "They should've sent a poet."

I will let the poet speak for I'm too inadequate to express how I feel about this subject.

I leave it to Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death."

love is an action, in-love is a potentially dangerous, but pleasant feeling, like is not worth a definition.

"Like" seems to ebb and flow and is almost never permanent. For example, I sure don't like all the same kinds of music I did 35 years ago.

Love is more of a rock, but is much different than "in-love". This is hard to put into words, but I "love" some of the musicians I've played with, somewhat like the love I would share with a family member. My musical brothers, so to speak.

"In-Love" is an entirely different matter my friends! Much more complicated in a good way. There's a line from an old Rod Stewart song, "you're my lover, you're my best friend". The "best friend" thing is a really important element of being "in-love". You might not "like" some of the things about your lover, and you might not even "love" some things about your lover, but if you are "in-love", minor differences are not important. All I know for sure is that if I don't talk to the person I'm in love with at least once a day, things just don't feel right.

There's a quote I like on the subject, sometimes attributed to Willie Nelson....

"Most folks are with someone they are not in love with, and that's what fills up the juke boxes!"

Hello Derek!

The differences between like, love and in love don't much matter.

Try moving your center of attn from the head down to the heart so you can experience like, love, in love, and being love all at the same time, as much as possible. Much more fun! :-)

hmmmmmmmm liking = is happy to be around someone

loving= is being inspired, excited and really happy to be around someone.....and being there for them when its not so fun to be around them!

'in love'= is all of the above AND feeling, thinking, sensing, intuiting that this person may be the one who you will mutually discover they want to be with you till the end.. what ever comes.. the angst only appears when you are wrong... those who find it are blessed.... it hasn't come to me ....yet.. : )

Being "In Love" is like a magic door suddenly appearing in a wall.

While it's open (while you're still "in love") you feel a strong urge to do things that please that person, delight in their good side, excuse their faults, learn what makes them tick, encourage their spirits.

If you're smart, you'll learn the key things: generosity, tolerance, understanding. And you'll choose to stick to them when the magic disappears.

Because the door will close sometime, and that's when you'll find out which side of the door you're on. If you both choose generosity, tolerance and understanding, you'll find you're still in some kind of magic space. That's love.

And if you truly understand how that works, you don't actually need the magic door of being "in love". It's possible to walk straight through the wall. When you know there's someone you want to meet on the other side, it just works.

There are ultimately two kinds of feelings. Love and fear.
So there is only one kind of love.

the words in-love, like, ... have been misused as ways to describe relationships or the amount of involvement in a relationship one wants to be in rather than a feeling
Loving someone doesn't necessarly mean that we can or want to have a relationship with that one. So we might say "I like" but this is still describing love (outward energy)

In-love is most always used to express a fear based feeling, with the idea of "I will die if he/she doesn't want to be with me". Butterflies in the stomach,so often associated with being in-love, are simply the symbol of fear of being rejected, which is most always interpreted as dying by the mind (you feel the same when skydiving, going on stage, ...)

99% of love songs are actually fear songs :-)

in Portuguese you have
gostar -> to like
adorar -> to love
amar -> to be in-love

These three emotional states come from different degrees of comfort. The more comfort you feel with someone, the more you love.

I like that this subject put the brains to work. I would bet many of the people responding learned a bit more about themselves.......

Illhave to agree with post number 7... love grows where nobody knows and nobody knows.....like.. meeeee
i can love a person have sex for a year and still not be "in love" like i am with my main girlfriend
you can times that by 3 or 4 actually.. teh in love is a bond when you go through experiences indigenous to the 2 of you..people get weird when you say i love you too fast...(??) hey ya might feel like that but yes mostpeople get that mixed up for the normal im in love -with- you- and -want -to- own -you type of relationship....
but then again im a youngie when it comes to the 60's im only 49 but enjoyed some of the leftover things that era brought about..i can honestly say i love everyne ive ever been intimate with...but then again im one of those call the next day kinda guys...or same night to say what a wonderful time...must have been the 2000 lsd trips tween 74 and 2000 that made the impression on me- todays youth will never feel like that. it goes against the government programming

I think Derek is in love.
Linnea

A one sentence answear of how it can be..

Like is when you care and enjoy beeing with someone.

Love is when you are able do sacrifice and offer something for the person/thing.

Being in-love is when you can't be without him/her/that in that.

hmmmmm then again...the other way of looking at it is......

there is LOVE... which is an openness to the ALL... underlying energy of the universe... that which IS

and there is FEAR... which is a resistance to this energy LOVE and creates all other negative emotions...

those we love make it easy to experience LOVE

those we are 'in love' with inspire an intense experience of both...

Love is a way of life.

LIKE...is when you can tolerate the person...but only to the point that they do not infringe on your personal comfort or finances.

LOVE...is when you like the person...allow them to infringe on your personal comfort and sometimes finances...but are careful not to return the infringement.

IN LOVE...is when you don't even care if you like them or love them...you want to be one with them in every way...whether they put the toilet roll on over or under...whether they can cook or not...whether they can balance the check book or not...whether they use all of the towels in the bathroom and you don't notice until you're already in the shower...or even if they don't wash their hands after they...well...you know. Being IN LOVE...unless preceded by LIKE and then LOVE...is usually a dismal failure (long term.)

I doubt that you can really define any rules, tricks or methods about this stuff, but your guidelines are a fine attempt at putting some order into the chaos. In my case.... proposed at about 21/2 - 3 weeks... done 35 years so far. Yeah, you really have to like someone! One of these days maybe I'll try writing a love song.

Love? If you do not have the balance of being out of love then you are not truly in love.
I am with the woman I like, love, dislike, and at times hate. there for, I believe - I am in a balanced in love real life relationship.
EZL

I'm looking forward to reading the comments. Being "in love" has come for me to mean what the words literally say: love is a realm or a state, and the beloved and I are 'in it' together. There are personal aspects, but there are beyond-personal aspects, too.

The women I know all have great qualities, but they have different sets of great qualities. When the personal chemistry is good, and I want, not just sex or company, but to 'be with' a woman, I love her.

In the right relationship, even if you only like each other, the love flows.

In my experience, loving someone has mostly to do with me and how I feel around, or in contact with them. I think overall it's a fairly selfish state of mind, really. If one is completely comfortable around someone, it's very easy to love being in their company.

In a truly loving relationship, both parties are completely free and open to be who and what they are, without restraint, worry of scrutiny, and judgment. So, with that is an inherent gauge wherein the more easy you can be with someone, the more easily you can love them.

Romantically speaking, if I can sit close to someone, hold their hand or simply cuddle - in easy, comfortable silence - then I think I'm in love.

Love is a thoughtfull and concious decision. Love is NOT a feeling by which i am overwhelmed.

Like is a peaceful day
Love is a peaceful day floating on the water
In love is a peaceful day floating on the water with chocolate!

this is all very good and very interesting. love means many things to people. I love reading them and it certainly makes me think about it.

I wrote the line "Love is all you need to know. The harder you love the stronger you grow" let me know if i can send you this song

Some of us are growing and changing so much that what we like and love in others changes as we grow.

funny enough, in most languages i can think of the word love has vowels resonating in the stomach (amore, amour, love, amor, ai, etc) except in german it's called "liebe" - resonating in the head... :-)

"LIKE" IS A NICE FEELING YOU HAVE FOR FRIENDS, RELITIVES, PETS, THINGS BUT IF NECESSARY YOU CAN LIVE WITHOUT THEM.

"LOVE" WHEN YOU LOVE THERE IS NO END TO IT. IT IS FOREVER, BUT WHEN LOST PART OF YOU DIES. THE LOVE DOES NOT!

There comes a time when love becomes as much a decision as a feeling. This doesn't weaken, rather making it real. Just ask any couple who has a bad day.

Rember 'Love is more than the sum of what you say'.

Paul stride

Now you going to ask the question I have to give you a visual answer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U6yrEQt
and then put your comment there as well. I'd be honored:)

DANG...it was the wrong link:
Here's the right one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U6yrEQtEjw

Now your comments written there too in this regard wouldn't hurt.

Your "what if they died" is a very good measurement. You could go even more striking and ask,
"Would I kill for them?" "Would I die for them?" Now this would shed light on your original idea of what if they died. Sometimes these answers tell us more about ourselves than about the degree of connection to another person. People grieve quite differently than others as well as process emotions. Some do actually die, some take 10 years to come out of depression, some do it in a year, some are deeply philosophical and have experienced their death long before they died and the ultimate action has less punch to it. What about the sociopath? When the person they love dies maybe they give up Arbys for a day. Love, Hate and all of the middling experiences are chemical processes and when mankind knows more about the brain process we will be able to deal with these distinctions more accurately. The study of the chemistry of depression might be a more telling clarification of the death of a loved one.

But in music these things can be torrential in power. I experienced a terrible break up with a girl one time and there was a piece of music that was quite deep that I played during the sorrow. I have long since gotten over the experience but when I play the piece about 79% of the intensity of the emotion of that time comes back like an oceans wave. With most every deep trauma I have had in life (as well as many ecstasies)
There is usually a musical piece attached that grows in intensity over time. When you write music you can only hope that your listener will place their experiences side by side with your music.

“Like” is a smile
“Love” is a smile, a frown and a commitment
“In Love” is a smile, a racing heart, a little confusion and a desire to please

When you like someone you admire certain traits in them be it ones that you share or ones that you admire,you may or may not find them physically attractive,trust is still under negotiation at this point.
When you love someone your willing to invest more time with them,its a relationship based on mutual trust and dependence,personally i like this one the best,you might still want to sleep with them but your probably not willing to risk fucking things up.
When your in love your fairly blind to the persons faults,you idealise them kind of like having a drug addiction you feel withdrawl symptoms when they are not around.This usually fades with time and if your lucky you go back to stage two.Sorry not very romantic :)

http://spartacusjones.blogspot.com/2009/02/all-ya-need-is-love.html

It changes as you age. When you've been monogamous for 25 years, "in love" doesn't mean much. The most intense love I've ever felt was when my daughter was born.

Love is a choice. You choose to care about another person with your free will. It is a pleasure when they love you back. But they won't always. But they do always need to know that you are going to stay with them... loving them. So they can feel secure. Love is not for the weak of will. Love endures forever. If it doesn't, it's not love. Friendship, family, camaraderie, companionship, all incorporates this same principle. Everything else isn't worth the effort. Love people. Love everyone. Or don't. You will begin to find there is no middle ground.

I think my grandfather Sammy Fain said it best when he co-wrote "Love is a many splendored thing"
Love is a many-splendored thing,
It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring,
Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living,
The golden crown that makes a man a king.
Once on a high and windy hill,
In the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still,
Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing,
Yes, true love's a many-splendored thing.

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@sivers like is and emotion. Often can change back and forth. Love is the feeling of sacrifice when their happiness comes before yours. ...

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Liking Loving and in love Well all 3 to me is great!! I am a pastor's wife and so 3 in one is the Father Son and Holy Spirit!!! I write Christian songs!!!! I have a song I love you for who you are here are my lyrics!!!

I LOVE YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE

People love each other in many ways Years months and even days But the longest love is forever here Fulfilling my unwanted tears CHOURS: I love you for who you are Where ever you go you’re a shinning star People love you near & far You enlighten me I love you for who you are Your love is great it fills my being It makes me feel just like a queen We must hold on to this one thing Our love is strong so let us sing CHORUS: Every one learns to love instead of hate Through my deep love I don’t hesitate Loving you is such an easy case I can keep up with your even pace CHORUS:

I like to be in love
And would love to like you
But sometimes I just love you

I have loved a lot of people both past and present! I just hope that they have all loved me, and at least still have some love for me! lol

Hello,
this is a huge subject. I'm going to add some thoughts...

I read in a book that there are many kinds of soulmates in one's lifetime. There's the friend soulmate: that perfect perfect friend. It can be of same or opposite sex. If the latter you will wonder why you are not attracted to each other. ..or if you gave it a go, you wonder why that part ain't shooting stars.
there's the sex soulmate. Every aspect of the passion , seduction and carnal bliss was really heaven - and it always will be.
..And you wonder why the character aspects are so clashing and everything else is so not working.
There's the working soulmate...the spiritual soulmate.
And then there is THE ONE - and there might be more than one- which can fill your soul in all or almost all the main aspect of your soul,flesh,companionship..etc

Thinking that the day you'll find this ONE is the day you'll be truly happy is an unhealthy
mental attitude. If you are set this way, the day you ll meet him/her - yes it will be heaven for a while - but also the beginning of the end. you have set love as a mean to an end. And an end is what you will get.

Love is an ongoing process, it gets reacher and deeper, but itis not the means to an end.


The Thrill of the beginning of love, can be love or just a thrill. At the beginning you don t know each other really. It is a blank canvas . If you are blinded by love you will grow every illusion/delusion you have about love into the other person , into each other, denying every flat note- so to speak.
One day you'll wake up in a maze of resentment or just next to a stranger.
- If you are Awaken by love, you will find yourself thrilled and curious to know who the other person really is . You'll be excited to learn and even change. You will see defects and shortcomings both in them and in you. You will learn to turn anger into compassion- for example- You will want to make yourself better. You will learn to receive or give more - ( we all tend to be a bit more one than the other). you will be in the process of love. You got to be wanting to be a gardener..planting seeds, turning the earth...not just sit there in a pretty garden..

..And if you have ever wondered:
does the passion fade with time?
The answer is : No! Not if you let it.
Passion is part of love and it DOES HAVE its growing aspects.
Intimacy has no limits folks. With communication,love,trust,self awareness ....the tools of love.. passion does not need to fade.
It's your fear, your craving for comfort, your not wanting to keep up with imagination and play that will make it fade.

If you ask yourself :

am I in love ?

..maybe the question is more

What Am I afraid of ?

Love is a teacher. the greatest toughest teacher. It is worth EVERY lesson.

If you are afraid to be hurt, to be left, not to be loved back, that you re not good enough that it won t work....
well it might. You might be awaken by love,and the other blinded.
you can never be certain, most especially in the beginning.

you can be certain of this :
If you are moved by fear, and not by love.
You will never find it.
You will never know it.
you will be missing out on the discovery of the foundation of life.
That includes fear of leaving a relationship
and or fear of opening up to one, or taking a step further.
It may take a big heartache. It may take loosing control, and loosing your head.
Those are/might be the lessons for your maturity and growth.
You might feel like dying,but maybe that's just what you need to learn ( ..and no. You wont die! - a " Love dying"/heartbrake experience is more about your past childhood traumas than the person whom you love/d and lost - it is in you emotional-memory bank which is attached to your love behaviors )


Finally ,about love ( this one is for the boys)
quoting Paul Newman ( the hottest dude in his time) about loving his Love& wife :

" Why going out for fast food, when I have stake at home?"

(..I sayd it was for the boys)

Ciao
Petra W

One "likes" someone when there's empathy, similarity, harmony. "Love" can be universal (I "love" everyone, but I don't necessarily want to hang out with many of those ppl I genuinely do "love"...). "In Love" means intimate love, special love. There's usually attachment involved, so there's dependence. I can't be happy if that person isn't around or going to be around soon. But there is often - not always - special empathy and harmony, also.

And here is why every culture has music and art -- because, at best, language is just a marker buoy in a vast ocean of feeling. You can love your spouse, AND your parents, AND your dog, AND chocolate -- four different feelings, one lousy word to describe them all. But music hits the feeling right on the head. Those interested in exploring this more fully should read Suzanne Langer, "Philosophy in a New Key".

Very simple:
1.LOVE if you can say to each other "i love you sooooo very much", and truly mean it a 100%, then it's love.
2. LIKE If you say "you're so cool", you like them.
3. IN-LOVE If you say "why didn't you call me yesterday?" you're hopelessly in love..

My son recently told me he was getting married. I was happy for him and I like the woman he's chosen. I wanted to say something more than what my father told me "Good Luck!"
It started me thinking... One thing I know for sure: marriages end, relationships end, but love lasts. My new CD "Originals" has at least one song about that. It'll be out in November.

Every attempt I make at a description of "love" feels too trivial.
Is it when you know you could not feel luckier than to be having a candlelit dinner with this person? Is it that sadness you feel when they are gone?
Is it the ecstasy of lovemaking?
Love has fooled me before. Yet I have never doubted my feelings of love.

I like how you make me think

I love my chickens and ducks

I'm in love with my husband

Like,
is when you make the effort of creating time or things to do together. Liked to be glued together. Sometimes we can't choose

Love,
is real laughing
Your Love
reciprocating
intimidating
reciprocating
and doing a better job of it than you.

In love,
is when you go above and beyond and do as many of all those little things that mean so much to her.
Those things that mean so much.
You mean so much.
She means so much.
One last touch, One more touch.
In love is also waking and
just watching her sleep in awe knowing that your life is
so much better with her there.
knowing that your life is
so much better with her there.
knowing that your life is
so much better with her there.

with her there.
with her there.
with her there.
with her there.

That is a question that can only be answered by you! We each are unique and feel differently about those words because it's based on what's inside each individuals mind.There are many common grounds but none are identical. Science has proven that our sense of smell defines the attraction between a man and woman. The reasoning capabilities that we have measure the possibilities of the relationship and rationalize the odds and whether this can succeed. Then all the words and their meanings in our minds take over.The various parts of our brain light up and do their job and we are off and running. This thinking may not sound romantic but if we understand many of these things,we don't have to hurt so badly during the entire process. I know this is probably not what you or any one wants to hear, but there it is. Good sniffing.

Cool thought,,, Like covers all phases of love,love covers all phases of love,and in love only your heart can explain and give you the answer your lookin for How do you know the difference i think each phase is a step to Love and when you get there you will know ......(smile) S.Dee

uh...time to consult Joseph Campbell...Eros, Mythos...& be present...and kiss yo uh huh good-bye

It's all in the eyes, which express the soul.

Like: there's a sparkle and some flashes at times.. sparkle starts in the heart and moves upward into unhideable smiling eyes

In-love: sparkle turns to flare in danger of overheating and burning out with much heart pumping involved. If eyes throughly engaged, could last forever.

Love: steady, low heat burning intensity at times but adjusts to maintain a steady level of heat, the kind that never goes out and enwraps the intended in a web of safety, kindness, humor, intelligence, all seen and experienced through the heart-eye connection. The eyes don't lie.

L oose-leaf
I nvitations
K ites
E asy


L yric
O verflowing
V ital
E ternal


I llegible &
N eat

L onging
O ral
V alentine
E lusive

here is a slightly corny song written for a friends wedding. you can dowload the mp3 on the above link. it was originally meant to be a traveling wilburys type song but we later recorded it as a dream-pop style.



Plain, Simple Love

plain simple love, plain simple love, plain simple love.

Isn’t shiny, like a brand new car,
doesn’t glitter, like a falling star,
but it’s still there when the times get tough,
and it knows when enough’s enough,
it makes us laugh, makes us cry,
it’s with us when we’re born and when we die...

plain simple love, plain simple love, plain simple love.

it was there the day I said “I do”,
was loving me and it was loving you,
no need to dress it up to look the part,
its beauty’s really in the heart,
you might be rich, might be poor,
but it’s love that we’re all looking for...

plain simple love, plain simple love, plain simple love.

it makes us friends and makes us family,
it ends our loneliness, our misery,
you can see it in a simple smile,
won’t mind waiting, if you take a while,
plain simple love.

knows when to pick up the phone and ring,
knows when you don’t need to say a thing,
it can’t stand rumours, can’t stand lies,
and it’s not too proud to apologise
it can’t be bought, there’s no price
but you can share it, that’s the best advice...

plain simple love, plain simple love, plain simple love.

you can feel it like a pure white dove,
flowing through us from the Lord above.
plain simple love.

plain simple love, plain simple love,
plain simple love, plain simple love, plain simple love.

Hi Derek,
Good question to ponder...I can relate to what the person said about "if the person you like died, etc." That was a good answer. I decided to reflect on it before I answered and I did and here is what I came up with...People you like are everyday people in your life that you tolerate and are cordial to. You wouldn't necessarily invite them to your parties, wedding, etc.. People you love are people you love to be around, spend time with, invite to things, people you would ask you to help you move or pick you up at the airport but you do not have to see them every day. And finally people you are in-love with are people you want to be around all the time and you don’t always need a reason. You are so comfortable together that at times you can just be silent with each other. You can speak telepathically with these people. And to me this in-love involves more than your romantic/intimate partner. Because for instance, I am in-love with my family members. I feel so bonded to them. In-love to me means they are intertwined with the love you have for yourself. They are a part of you and you need them for your own well-being and vice-versa. Thanks for such a great question. It also prompted me to mentally divide the people in my life into these 3 categories and reflecting on these mental lists gave me great insight to who I am. Cheers!

its the one thing

When I occasionally hear of women falling in love with incarcerated men, I often doubt the truth and can't believe how that would be possible. But, when you're in love, you are indeed IN LOVE and this covers everyone, including the most heinous criminals.

"Like", "Love", "In love" are different degrees of emotion. To "Be Love", now that's something completely different ;-)

As long as I am the owner of an onboard testosterone factory, I will always LIKE women.

When I met my wife years ago, I fell IN LOVE with her--my heart literally pounded in my chest with this overwhelming warm rush of emotion and a desire just to hold her.

After several years of together going through the magnificent beauty and agonizing hell of living a life, I LOVE her so much--the kind of love that sees the flaws and weaknesses, the good and the awful, and still finds me hoping that I will share the rest of this hideous and beautiful life with her till the end. And in the seemingly cryptic words of my Mom, "when you fall in love, you just know..."

Thanks for starting these great conversations, Derek. I appreciate you.

OK Derek this is growing into? where are you today? when will you be there?:{-)

For me, all of these terms are on a spectrum that has to do with a concept of resonance. (Like Tobias suggests with the german term "liebe.)"

Since I believe that resonance waves are the fundamental "force" in the universe, the way we are attracted to each other is based on many things are below our level of consciousness. As Schopenhauer proposed, we are attracted to opposites [or complementary resonances], perhaps from a naturalistic, selective mechanism based on smell, subliminal physical characteristics, background, etc.

But once we have finished the procreation part much of the success of long term relationships depends on our ability to change and come to a place of harmony (or cooking) that we have in common with our partners. If we share physical, mental and spiritual sensibilities, then the bond, I think, feels like love and comes with the benefits of a loyalty that can go to giving one's life for the other. But it requires both a willingness to change, communicate and be aware of the small vibrations of the day that make up our existence.

But I have had a sensation that we could actually come to love anyone, say, if we were on a desert island together. As you learn more about others, it is just a matter of listening to their frequencies. If they don't resonate we have the luxury of deciding not to spend time with them or to communicate and therefore increase the resonance. In that regard I have sometimes wondered how "prisoner syndrome" affects humans so that the captor and captive come to have some empathy for each other.

When I ride on the subway in NYC, I sometimes look around with that sense of love and many times I get a smile in return. Then I am reminded of the love of my life.

I think you left off the very important "like like."

I like people.
I like like crushes.
I love friends & family.
"In love" is trickier. It happens with romantic partners. I can't really describe it but I know when it happens. Something about opening up my heart and trusting another's love possibly. Not sure if that's a good thing, but it sure is wonderful when it happens.

:)

"LOVE" is such an overused word. To me it is so overused it has become a reactive word. Sort of like eating a sweet pie or cake. The first couple of bites make your mouth fall in "LOVE" with the taste and buy the time you get to the last bite the taste has diminished. My belief is that you never have to use the word "LOVE" because if you "LOVE" someone, they know you "LOVE" them by how you treat them. Talk is cheap, Actions speak louder than words and last forever. If you do or think you "LOVE" someone just go ahead and show them and they will show their "LOVE" for you.

sorry, too much of a rush to do my usual 'study the post and scan the responses' - this mave have been added to the discussion already...

...my answer is simple :-)

- the difference between them is directly proportional to the time invested or emotion attached -

My personal feeling is when you obsess about these things, it makes relationships very complicated. Just follow your gut, go out with people you like, and see what happens. Don't be afraid to say "I love you", but don't force it either - let things develop at their own natural pace.

"In love" is a feeling which goes away, though. Real love between grown adults eventually takes work and effort to sustain. Love is not just a feeling, it is also an action! Your actions will show the other person that you truly love them.

I read somewhere that the highest form of love is the love between parent and child. I agree. When it comes to my daughter, I love her unconditionally. She tests my patience now and then, but the feeling of love I had when holding her for the first time has never gone away. I don't have to "work" at loving her (even when she is infuriating); my love for her is just "there" - it just "is".

We love people who undrerstand "yesterday's lessons" for today's NWO.

"Hitler's Inferno"

In my mind, love = extreme likeness of someone or something.

In Love = a chemical imbalance in the brain.

Greek to the rescue:

Eros
Philia
Agape
Storge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

From my experiences:

"Love" is a verb and never a noun. "in-love" is a state. I've never thought about what "like" is though.

I DON'T LOVE PUDDING


I like pudding. I love my child, I was, perhaps, in love with her mother.

I like pudding. It’s a variable emotion. If the pudding aint nice then I don’t like it. It’s literally about taste.

I love my child. I’ve been fortunate in that regard. If you have a child who is a ‘joy’ then - chances are - character takes precedence over personality and it’s the manifestation of that character, over time, which brings out the joy.

The love of a parent for a child is probably the closest we get to ‘true love’. I’d call it true love because the relationship requires nothing, from the other, apart from their continued existence.

I’ve been besotted by women, obsessed by beauty and none of it stands the test of time because it aint love. At best it’s a conditional love. If our loved one grows cold to our touch and continues colder then our ‘love’ begins to change.

‘What? - my love’s no good anymore? You won’t get better elsewhere!’ ..... doesn’t it become a commodity when put like that?

My grandson is very young and is more ‘in love’ with the idea of being a guitar hero than he is with actually doing the hard work required to reach that goal. This isn’t a criticism. It’s the way life is.

We taste, we like, we taste some more - perhaps become obsessed, perhaps become addicted. It’s more about where our attention lies than ... love.

I don’t love life but there isn’t much alternative so we call it precious and kill each other at the same time. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hunger for death and will accept my allotted number of heartbeats before - The Big Nothing or the Big Something. We’re here for a reason or we’re not and if we’re not - then I’ll make one up.

So what can I say I love? Call and response - I love that ‘Hail Fellow - Well met!’ aspect of life. I don’t just like it. It nourishes me to know good people roam the earth. I don’t need to meet them and I don’t require anything from them and so it’s .... pretty much unconditional and so I’ll call it love quite cheerfully.

I don’t love things, inanimately manufactured. I cannot love a car but that’s more a reflection of how loosely we use the word love.

I love a ‘God who doesn’t intervene’ precisely because any intervention immediately negates free will.

Perhaps love makes the heart expand. It’s a little bit more than good vibrations but it does contain that radiance and many of us recognise it in others even if we find it hard to define for ourselves.

Right at this moment I do love life and am happy to be here. I wont try to capture or contain it and I know I won’t feel the same at dawn tomorrow as I shiver into some outdoor work - sleepy, bleary and ‘rather be elsewhere’ .... until I warm up.

Hi, Derek,
It sounds like you're searching...
Interesting. Well, I'll tell you, I think each of us gets a call from our gut about the person we're thinking of choosing, if we're lucky enough to find someone suitable. I'm talking about spousal love. We each have a gut instinct that says, Yes, this could work, or No, it just doesn't feel right. We have to listen to it, but it's common to disregard it for many reasons. If we are living in a fantasy that we can find the perfect mate, and that certain things have to be perfect, we may never find such a human being. So we live in a kind of dead space, waiting for something that will never come. Lots of people live like that. Others take what comes when two minds have to live under one roof, and work to make the existence together more like what they want. They find the love changing based on what they go through together. Sometimes things don't work out, and it's painful to go through that. But when the voice inside us says, Yes, this could work, it's most likely it will. High quality psychoanalysis helps immensely in terms of hearing that inner voice more clearly, and identifying if we are living in a dead space. Good luck with your search.
Robin

Such a wonderful community you've founded here, Derek! Such friendly, informative, thoughtful, even beautiful responses. Mine takes the form of a story. Please excuse the length.

Legend has it that “like”, “in love”, and “love” are some of the nicer way-stations on the universal voyage of Love. As you meander thru the hills & valleys, exploring your planetary home, you stop in for a visit now & then. You laugh, you cry, you wander on. One day you climb a hill much higher than you’ve ever known before. Love! You’ve heard of this place. The view is spectacular! You’d like to stay forever, but the rarified atmosphere is beyond your abilities at the moment. So you make the descent, vowing to return.

The usual suspects convince you to tarry along other paths, returning to the old familiar haunts. But that vision of Love remains and one day you strike out on your own, heading for the mountains. You discover a new summit. You look around and notice other peaks nearby. You journey on and discover a few small communities of folks at this elevation. You realize you could actually live up here! If you want…

You think about it. You decide to make the descent again, to tie up some loose ends and bring supplies. It takes a few trips. Each time you carry fewer supplies. Your heart grows stronger with each climb. Before long you can’t imagine what more you need. You find your feet can no longer negotiate the turn around, back down the mountain. Love seems to have a permanent address up here. There’s plenty of room at the inn.

You mentioned your trips to a few of your friends, sent a few postcards. Whaddya know! A few of them show up for a visit. You have a magnificent time, showering them with the gifts that grow abundantly in the meadows up here. Everyone finds their own special spot they want to return to. A few of them come back to stay.

One day someone named True arrives, someone you seem to know. Don’t quite remember this face, but the vibration feels so familiar, so exquisite. You talk, you walk thru the meadows. Your hands are a perfect fit, transmitting wordless communications in the language of Home.

Seems that you each have all the main ingredients and you want to build the same kinds of inns. More spots for more friends to discover this spectacular view from a place called Love. Wanna try it together? Wow! Very cool! You’re astonished. True Love showed up! And you weren’t even looking anymore.

:-)Alanafalana

love and like comes in many forms , many layers,there is no one answer,knowing the difference is what makes us human,,k.sokol

Hi Derek,
Are you trying to find out if your in love? Just kidding.
Well! if you like someone.You like hanging out with them.But,you can also do without them.
If you're in love you might be thinking of going up a level and asking yourself "Can i live with this person for the rest of my life"?on the other hand if you say,"I cannot live without this person in my life" then you truley love that person.
Pete

Remember your favorite song when you were a teenager.
It wasn’t perfect… maybe your friends didn’t think much of it.
But it was your favorite song.

You didn’t question, “Do I really love this?”
You just did.
You didn’t analyze it.

When you analyze, you keep EVERYBODY at arms length.
It’s safer, but who wants to be around someone who continually dissects?

Let go… take care of her… and she’ll take care of you.

Yea soul mates are hard to find havent found mine yet. They say all relationships have to be worked at and sure they do... However the more compatable the more able to tolerate the differences the easier the road...

Derek...I'm quite intrigued by your recent endeavors. You appear to be on a mission? Your persona kind of reminds me of Somerset's "The Razors Edge." Did you find that making money really doesn't solve problems? You did a great thing for the musicians by helping to sell their CDs. Jean
Thanks Jean. I've always been a curious student of life. I'm just sharing my questions and musings on the site more now than before. Same stuff I've always talked about with friends. — Derek

I don't see any difference. It' all the same shit.

Love, B

It think it's too narrow a definition of love. To ruminate on love you need to take in parental and filial love ... Ultimately you will end up thinking about the love of God for His creation ... Even if you are agnostic (as I am) it is edifying to dwell on this subject as I believe it helps us to understand why humanity identified and defined the ineffable concept of "love". After all, there's no more proof of the existence of love than the existence of God ...

In looking over some of these posts, I see that a few people from places other than in the United States mentioned that it isn't as confusing where they are because there isn't as much distinction or not as many different words.

As a songwriter I almost hate to
say this, but it almost makes me feel like English just has too many words.

Typical to America, we take a beautiful concept like "love" and feel we have to define every little step and nuance, and end up doing nothing more than confusing things...

Which is why, when it all comes down, I love English. I would put a little smiley face here, but any post praising the English language should never have a little smiley face...

Derek, people can only tell the shades of love they are at the end of the journey. Time will tell if you are in love or in lust.... don't doubt me, pls

“If I like anything about someone, I like them. If I like everything about someone, I love them. If I like everything about someone and we have great sex, I'm in love.”

This is hillariously brilliant. I LOVE it!
Another great question to keep us all up for the rest of our lives. Which one of you 200 commenteers is gonna write the book of "Like, Love and IN-Love"?

To be in love with my true self, which straddles time and space is the most important thing and most beneficial for the people I love, too :-)

Like = approval
This can apply to anything.

In love = In Lust/heated passion
The fire of passion deminishes with time.

Love = One life for another/Charity
No greater love has he who will give his life for another. Jesus gave his life for YOUR salvation. Who do you love enough to sacrifice your life for them?

The best definition I have read for love is found in the Bible:
I Corinthians - Chapter 13: verses 1-7.

I was going to pass on this one... and then... it came to me....

All of the comments that I have read here assume that these words are referring to a personal relationship.... here is a twist....

Check this out.... I like my neighbor, I love my work... and damn...I AM IN LOVE with a band that I hope to be managing VERY SOON....

Best to you all!

My first language is Russian, and we also have three different terms for love, in-love and like. OK, here's what I think: to like someone is to be interested in a person, or, to be more specific, in one or several particular qualities of the person. To be in love is a temporary state of mind, or, quoting your friend, Derek, the "glorification of a temporary infatuation". Sometimes it grows into love, sometimes simply dies out. Now, love... That's the tough one. TO LOVE doesn't necessarily mean TO LIKE EVERYTHING about a person. In my opinion, it means to ACCEPT the person, the way he or she is, unconditionally, without wanting to change anything... And willing to be with the person all the time, willing to share your life with him or her... OK, there :)

I do my best to love everyone, and everything. I practice this daily. That includes the heroes and villains in my life and in my songs. One of my best recent tunes was written out of love for someone who I really strongly dislike, as a wish for him to find his soul and a way to live reasonably.

So I try to love everyone - starting with their molecules, if their brain is too much - but there are plenty of people I don't like and choose not to work with or to be around if I can avoid it. Still, I know they are doing the best they can under the circumstances - like everyone else. Like you are. Like I am.

As for IN LOVE, I've been with my girl for over 5 years now and I hope to be with her until we die. One of my favorite things about her is that she doesn't make me stupid. There are plenty of women out there who make my hormones flip out, but this one, we just hang out and enjoy each other and help each other with what we need help with and so far, it's been so good. We don't have everything in common, but that's what keeps it interesting. And for the first three years we were "together," we lived in different cities, 1500 miles apart. We got through it OK, and I think it gave us a good foundation to get through whatever else comes our way.

(I think it's probably a compatibility of scent, if you want to get scientific about it... but what fun is that? Or else our cosmic umbilical cords are twisted together in another dimension.)

Hi Derek and everybody!!
So many people wrote so many beautiful things! Thank you all! It's a deep subject, love, deeper than all of us and powerful too. Yes, there are three types of love, as explained but the greatest thing about love to me, is it's vastness. Beyond this life, this universe, this moment in history. It soothes, heals, energizes, motivates, creates passion..No matter what is happening in time, love will always remain. I love that!
Rachel

The pictuer in this issue is "LOVE"
Aleee

"Are We In Love?" I pose this very question in this song/music video. Don't know if you've seen it. Enjoy ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EnkOUIqNtM&fmt=18

Sinem

Maybe, we will never come to truly knowing what love is. Maybe our goal is to understand what love isn't.

hey #244 good for you .... use Derek's blog for marketing yourself! Blatant...no apologies.....and it fit right in with the topic at hand..... lol

I have to admit I have been tempted ... but have resisted...just seems ... I don't know...so WRONG....!

Like is when you enjoy something on some meaningful level. Love is when you can give of your feelings unconditionally to something in a meaningful inner way. In-love is when you are aware and accept that what you feel is unconditional, and is coming from your deepest essence of feelings towards something other than yourself.

L. Lose your preconceptions
O. Open your soul-door and let it out to play
V. Vote with your heart
E. Empty the trash

Another idea:
like=bunny hop
love=ballroom
in love=tango

I think that the true test of true love is persistance. That's what I liked about the picture on this blog. It is easy to bale out. Sometimes I am so mad at my man that I wish he were gone. But I don't leave. And I worry if he is late. I care if he is sick. And if he is disabled, I will take care of him. Good question; what if you love somebody deeply and they cheat? Is that an absolute deal breaker? (My old man didn't cheat) I just hear people say that they love unconditionally, then they can't forgive.

I have read most of these comments, and they are all quite good. A lot of thought have went into these comments. I commend them all. As for the question, I believe you answered it in your initial statemment, or question. The answer is, is just love. Love is lt, that's it. Love is the answer. No defining, except in your own mind weather it is like, love, or being in love. Love is a great word in itself. I love life. Don't you?

THere is Love and there is infatuation or desire. Infatuation is fleeting. Desire is one set of glands calling to another. It is marked by feelings of insecurity-- you are excited and eager but not genuinely happy. There are nagging doubts, unanswered questions, little bits and pieces about the relationship you would just as soon not examine too closely. It might spoil the dream

Love is friendship caught fire. It takes root and grows, one day at a time. Love is quiet understanding and mature acceptance of imperfection. It is real. It gives you strength and grows beyond you—to bolster your beloved. You are warmed by their presence, even when they are away. Miles don't separate you-- But near or far you know he is yours and you can wait.

Infatuation says we must get married. I can’t risk losing you. Love says Be patient, don’t panic-- plan your future with confidence

Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement. Where you’re together you hope it will end in intimacy. Love is not sex based. It is the maturation of friendship that makes sex so much sweeter. You must be friends before you can be lovers. Infatuation lacks confidence. When he’s away you wonder if he’s being faithful... sometimes you check. Love means trust. You feel calm, secure unthreatened. He feels your trust and it makes him even more trustworthy. Infatuation leads you to do things you will regret but love never steers you in the wring direction

Love is elevating. It lifts you up. It makes you look up. It makes you better than you were before.

Love happens when you least expect it...truly it is interest at first site that evolves into attraction then decisions must be made : am I willing to make a 100% self-donation to this person?Answer this first: is everything that happens to you from the momemt you meet this person better because you share it with your new love interest? AND do you want to share your future with this person nd not have anything happen to you unless you share it with this person? If yes to all.. you are in love. I know becuase I have been in love for 39 years and those questions are what discerned for me that this was truly "it".. the great love of my life whom I met when I least expected to... and my life has NEVER been the same. Get this: before you meet the love of your life, your life is black and white. After you meet the love of your life, your life is in living color!Also, pray. Pray that God will send you your soul mate because if you ask for this gift... you will get it.

Love is when you miss being around someone or something so bad that you feel like you have been runned over by a train.
Watch the move High Fidelity if you haven't.

the late great British humourist Willie Rushton said that there were too many love songs. " If god had meant there to be so many love songs he'd've thought of more rhymnes than glove, dove, above and shove. In France it's easier as lots of French words rhyme with amour - but god is English"

Something I have been struggling to define recently a lot. But Martin Lunds comments ring true with me. You can definitely love someone very much but not be 'in love' with them, even if you were 'in love' to start with. I think the 'in love' part is when you are first madly attracted to each other and you know the feelings are reciprocated and you are showing each other all the wonderful parts of yourself. Later comes the tough stuff which tells you if you really love that person and would do anything for them. I guess that is why we write so many songs about it, because it really is one of the most complex forces we feel.

Like, love, in love have a common denominator. AFFINITY. Wanting to share the same space, be close to, contribute to.Hydrogen & oxygen have an affinity and combine to produce water. Roger & Hart had affinity and produced some great songs. I can feel affinity for my wife, Lester Young, Sarah Vaughn, Michael Franks, Gershwin's Concerto in F, a sunset, a full moon, God etc.
AFFINITY should not be confused with GREED which is possession, control and domination.
And so many great "love affairs" end in disastrous bitter divorce.

Love, Baaska

I saw a PBS special recently called something like "Finding Your One True Love," in which the speaker said that you have to be careful not to have sex with someone before you really know them because your body may start to fall in love before your mind does. Isn't that interesting? There are actual hormonal responses caused by skin-to-skin contact, similar to those that bond a mother and baby during nursing, and those can cloud your judgment -- to say the least!

Oh, another thing -- I know little about Buddhism but I read something that explained that the concept of a one true soulmate is very western, and boils down to the selfish/egotistical nature of our society (getting ahead, being a leader, self-aggrandizement). Whereas a Buddhist concept of no boundaries between me and you allows for the understanding that love is not a once-in-a-lifetime, all-consuming thing, but a lifelong journey of altruistic behavior. Also the expectation that we have that lovers would socialize together is not shared in other societies such as India, where it is understood that husbands and wives might lead very separate lives.

I think it's amazing that some knew right away that he/she was the one AND that it lasted.
I can't relate, falling in and out of love every half decade or so. I confuse all three like/love/in love I suspect.
I generally care very much what happens to people I love, and let people I like fend for themselves more.
My favorite "love " songs are Changes by Black Sabbath and You're Breaking my Heart by Nilsson. The comments are generally so positive. A-maz-ing!!!
Golden weddings are not frequent, the percentage is quite small. Married life can't last forever, it's a good world after all. Haha, not seriously.

I see from the number of comments that love is a pretty popular subject. That word is misused in many ways as slang for sex to exaggerate liking or passionate possesion of something. In the older dictionaries love had a more concise, simpler meaning referring to the treasure of the heart and the action from that. (from ourselves, a giving not receiving). Some say you'll know love when you see or feel it, but I wonder how many breakups and divorces have occurred after believing that statement. Love has many levels; from a simple like to a sacrificial dedication. Infatuation, intrique, passion, longing to posses and even dedication are maybe something found within love but not love itself. Even those elements can prove to be false. To find the definition of pure and true love read I Corrithians the 13th chapter of your Bible.

Here's some love in a song I channeled, to share from me to you, from Him. Enjoy!

“Simple Love”

(VERSE)

I’m the here, the now, the why
The attempt in all your tries
I’m the reason to believe
All the fresh air that you breathe
I'm the ponder in your thoughts
All the comfort in your loss
I'm the shine in every star
The reason that you are
I am the future, the now, the past
Dreams n’ visions that you have

(Bridge)
I am the reason for your days
And the power of all ways
I'm the secret to the door
The one you crave when you want more
I am the beauty in all you see
The answer to all your needs

(Chorus)
I’m the way – I am love
I’m the way, simple love
I know you hurt, I know you cry
You ask me and you wonder why
I want you to know its love
Simple Love

(Verse)

I’m the heal in every sore
I’m the hand that feeds the poor
I’m the peace within your soul
I’m your high to every low
I am the safe within the storm
All the wisdom earned of worn
I am the bloom in every seed
The let go of all your greed

(Verse)

I am the rainbow in the sky
Memories in all goodbyes
I am the laughter in your days
All the music that you play
I am the how to wonder why’s
And the bind in all the family ties
I am the warmth within a hug
The pouring rain from up above

(Chorus x2)

I’m the way, I am love
I’m the way, simple love
I know you hurt, I know you cry
You ask me and you wonder why
I want you to know its love
Simple Love

Lyrics by Rockangel aka J. Dansk(BMI USA ) Music by Svend-EK Madsen (Denmark)

''Where does love go when it's Gone?

Oh, where does love go when it's Gone?

Where does love go when it's Gone?

When I look to the stars up in the sky . . .

They still shine on . . .

But they're already gone!

And you're already gone.

And without you . . .

I'm gone.''

''Gone''
by LAMMY aka Mr. True

The first one is right...If you like someone (male or female) they can be your friend. If you date someone and like them enough that they become your best friend ever, then you know the meaning of true love.

The sad thing is that reading most people's thoughts on this subject confirms that I lost the true love of my life because she could not discern what love really is and made the wrong choice.

So I will simply say that love is a monkey with a machine gun.

I can selfishly indulge in Like

I am selflessly possessed by Love

When I'm hopelessly obsessed with Like

Then I guess you could say I'm In Love

Regarding other languages, I think that in Portuguese, the noun "amor" and the verb "amar" (direct translation of "love") kind of carry a stronger meaning than the word "love". That's why we tend not to use such words except for people we are in-love with, mom's love or God's love.

When we want to say that we love some place or some friend, we usually use "adorar" (from "adore") which carries a weaker meaning.

"In love" is something you can grow out of. It's spelled "Luv". "Love" is the fruit or consequence of real sacrifice and is something you never lose - even for those with whom you are no longer "in love".

Like is .. anything you find interesting about a person, their wit, their smile, their demeanour.
Love is caring for someone and wishing them well, from the heart, without prejudice.
In love is when you think abou this person in your daily living, and you adore them with your body, your brain, and your heart. In love is fleeting, but
once lost, it can be found again, if its true love.

I can like just about anyone, even people I only meet briefly once. I love a lot of others - but they tend to be people I really get to know and have a meaningful relationship with. But I'm only "in love" with a very small, select few. That is my deepest, inner-core of people. Those are the people who will have a special place in my heart forever.

It had been so long since I loved or was in love that I forgot how it felt! In love, where I am now, means that I can completely trust the person I'm with. At my best or my worst, they accept me. We are a part of each other--inextricable. It's a private cocoon, just big enough for two. I imagine that eventually we'll emerge, having transformed into something less fevered, but for now I am enjoying the long-awaited intimacy and bliss I feel here.

So many wonderful comments. Friendship is the highest form of relationship, says Paramahansa Yogananda. After 54 years and many forms of love, in-love, unrequited love, etc., I am in love with my freedom. I would take a bullet for it. My book, which is the result of my passion for life & writing, tells of a very unexpected love that exceeds any love I've known between mortals or a pet.

I like red wine and Italian food.

I love my wife, she's my best friend.

I'm in love with life, it keeps me alive.

These are easy questions Derek - Songwriting 101 Level 1....

Liking someone is when you like being in their company but you don't feel a strong urge to be with them as much as you can.

Love is indefinate: you can always make more. Love is when you care about someone no matter what. They can hurt you, embarrass you, make you mad ect.,the list is endless, but no matter what you will always forgive them.

Being in love is basically the same thing as love but more intiment. (Don't get this confussed with lust, which, by the way, is only wanting sex.) When your in love you want to build a life together with the person your in love with. Its not just a "i love you for the moment" or "lets screw!" but its a life time commitment and when you do have sex, your not only doing the deed but MAKING love to each other.

Its this need and longing to be with someone no matter what.

Being in love with someone is not about finding a perfect person, its about seeing an inperfect person perfectly.

Being in love is about finding someone whose willing to be there for you and your willing to do the same. You have to get a little uncomfortable at times tho but its worth it(:

Its complicated and no one can fully explain it and it goes way deeper than what i've said.

♥Caitlyn(:

I had to ponder this when I was deciding if I was ready for marriage. I should have done this much sooner in my relationship as I was ready to get married years before. Love is better when you know you have it.

The way I see love is the infinite expansion of the human state, free from attachment which causes human sufferings! So, in life or death, there is only love, infinite, unbounded by our humanness and when the day comes for the body to leave the form, the endless stream of pure love still remains, unaffected by the inevitable truth of death. Love is just LOVE, infinite expansion. I will share the lyrics to a song about a woman that I LOVE.....

9 STORIES

9 Stories From the Sky


9 Stories Wrapped in my mind


9 stories I will climb


to tell


9 stories to your eyes


9 stories I will fall


down


to read


9 stories from the book of love


9 stories home at last


in your arms


what I would do


to read


9 stories from my book of poems


9 stories from the ground


here in my room


WONDERING


when will I see you again

yes I WONDERING


when will I see you again


touch your lips


feel the warmth of your skin


fall into your eyes


where compassion begins


watch you walk


upon a seashore calm


the breeze circles with love


in your radiant charm


Song Bird Violet Love


Your heart sings


Song Bird Violet Love


Your heart sings


along


in Angelic Song


(then there is a musical build up)


In modern day time its hard to say


if the box


pulls us closer


or farther away


I just don't know how else to pervay


9 more stories I want to say


I LOVE YOU


I LOVE YOU


I love YOU


I LOVE YOU


(THIS PART IS EXPLOSION


(Breaks down)


When I try to define


all the good ole lovin inside


and reside on a notion


of where we fit in time


a relationship spawns


and half the love is gone


Like My teacher, My pet, My girlfriend, My pawn


label it mine then it wont last long


Ill


be


wondering


where


I


belong


(music builds


(and builds)


Now I burst Open My Heart for us all to sing along


I LOVE YOU


I LOVE YOU


I LOVE YOU


I LOVE YOU


(Sing along part

For me, like is enjoying somebody's company. Love is a bond you have with somebody where you know they are important to you deep down. In-love can have two different meanings depending on the context in which it's used. It can either refer to the passion and excitement that is felt early on during the honeymoon stage of a romantic relationship. Or it can refer to a bond of love that exists between two people and makes them want to share their lives together as romantic partners.

To like someone is to desire their friendship (be attracted to them), to love someone is a choice, and to be in-love is a gift.

True love is a feeling that when years go by, even though apart, your spirits are bound and you can still feel for that person. Every day you are apart it tears you up inside because you miss her so much. Even if you want to forget, and try to, you can not becuase your souls are bound together. It is the highest form of love and literally is the foundation of real marriage : "What god has put together, let no man seperate" --- NO MAN CAN SEPERATE YOU as this bond is of the spirit, and can never be "filled" or "replaced" by anyone else.

True love sucks when you are dealing with someone who was forced into an arranged marriage. As you will both suffer the pain, and no amount of money will ever compensate as every dollar you see will remind you, every thought when you are asleep, you will remember, every time you laugh, you will cry inside at the pain you feel because you miss the laugh with your soul mate.

You can feel everything that person does, even though they could be a whole universe away.

True love NEVER dies.

I hate True love. :(

I miss you Wendy Hsieh (13 years later)

I wish i was in love, but i can't imagine being in love.

Something like this:"an incredibly moving, emotionally gripping, beautifully sung song that reminds me of the delerium experienced when your heart crumbles in utter humility and surrenders itself completely to love - totally admitting you faults and weaknesses yet empowering yourself and the other person by doing the same. Essentially saying, yeah I'm a wounded spirit with some serious scar tissue, but something about you permeates all that and enlivens my very core, my basic goodness. This song is the lump in your throat when you're falling madly in love and your throat dries out before you can spit out what your soul is desperately yearning to say.."

Though I have a hard time with a description of "like" and "in-love", I will say that "love" is much the way you had described CD baby: That everything you did for it, never felt like work. When you love someone, the 'work' that you do in your relationship, just never feels like work, but an extension of the love you've already got for them.

For me, liking someone is more of a surface (but not superficial) emotion, you are comfortable in their company, you respect their actions, and have true feelings of concern for them.

Loving someone includes all these things but carries with it a deep level of trust and a desire for affection with the person.

Being in love involves all of the above but includes a strong level of passion and a sometimes not so healthy feeling of desperation. This might show up in your desire for physical contact, or for concern for their well being. Its when you are willing to sacrifice your own needs in exchange for their needs.

Im realizing that a parent loving their children act more as though they are in love with their children, which, actually, I dont think is far off the mark. It just sounds a little creepy considering the way we historically think of the term "in love."

These are opinions based on my experiences.

The difference between like,love and in-love are as followed...

Like: when it comes to liking someone; you like what they do for you, you like how they make you feel, and/or you want to be their friend .

In-love: when it comes to being in- love with someone; you want to do everything for them, everything reminds you of them and it makes you passionate, and/or you want to be their lover .

Love: when it comes to loving someone; you do anything you can for them, you accept everything about them, and/or you have experiences for or with them.

So to sum it up..
Like mirrors impression
In-love mirrors hormones
Love mirrors irony

I would like to know what you think of my comment Derek.

To like someone is to enjoy someone's company, to focus on the similarities between both of you, to have similar measures and vision of certain topics.

To love someone is to admit there are things about him/her you would not normally like but you do because it's all part of one person and it makes him/her so unique and precious for you.

To be in love is ... to be born again. To discover a new world. To see usual things around you in an extraordinary way. To be in harmony with universe. To live with every fiber of your body. To be generous, grateful and forgiving without expecting anything back. And all these triggered by one single person existence.

love is like you love them to much and like is you just like them you don't care for anything about them.

Christopher has learned that senethra needs to be patient with their relationship even if they disagree and has conflicts. senethra has the ability to heal if she wants to. Christopher has the ability to heal if he wants to. Love is a four letter word that means so much to the both of them and in the years that they've known each other life has before a challenging renewal. Finding forgiveness even moment helps to build a stronger understanding. We only have one life dont take it for granted.

Whats the difference between Senethra and Senetra? Love and Like other than wouldnt I understand. The final numbers read for themselves the grand finally. Love and Like as a show of taunt, misused dialogue love and like. The limelight 300 she'll reach the top loving and liking herself. Senethra or Senetra! The life jacket that I choice to wear that I really admire and adore. Ok, OK, OK!! I got the point! Keeping the person blinded by real, genuine, sincerest of love or likes offerings. Forgiveness and Tolerance.................

Warriors!!!

Thought God Bless this UNION senethra and Chris

like= enjoyable
love= comfortable
in love= confusing: blissful at the same time fearful

to experience is the only way one can define how each word truly feels and know the difference...

i think like is conditional (someone said that). you enjoy hanging out with them, but if they do something you don't like, usually you don't like them anymore. like applies to friends and random acquaintances in life and family, but usually along with love for family. love is deeper. you care about them and worry about them. if they do something you don't like you might be mad at them for a while, but eventually you'd get over it (not true in all cases though). love applies to friends, family, and romantic partners. in love is the same as love, but even deeper than that. when you're in love, you can't see a life without that person. no matter what they do, you're still gonna be in love with them, even if they cheat (yes,you break up usually, but you still have extremely strong feelings for them). being in love is having your lives integrated together. you know each other's family and each other's little habits and traits. you have a future planned together. in love is what comes after being with someone you love for a decent amount of time - like a slow burning instead of a quick burst of flame that disappears as quickly as it appeared. also, i think (though people will argue) that being in love has a lot to do with the other person feeling the same way. in love only applies to romantic partners (unless you romantically love a friend or family member of course). that's just the definitions i've developed over the years (would you believe i'm only 18 and never had a boyfriend?). anyhow, to go along with this, i would recommend reading Stendhal's "Love." i'd already come up with these ideas before that, but it helped me figure out how to put this in words

I think liking is the first step..
love is second..and falling in love is the final step to live a perfect life..

love is faithful nd so

Okay, so I'm a fourteen year old girl, I may not have the best personal judgement on love, I may be young and people may say that because I am young that I wouldn't know what love is but then again does anyone actually know, I may not, but then again the aspects of love differ between each individual person. Love is a funny thing you can feel it for anyone or anything; a beloved cuddly toy, certain foods, drinks, favourite celebrities and so on, but I don't think that any type of love can be greater than that shared between to persons, a mother and their daughter, a father and their son, a husband and his wife or lovers in general. Yes people read about love and make their own personal assumptions on what they themselves believe love is but again no one really knows what love is. The feelings you get; butterflies in your stomach, heart beating faster every time you see or think about a certain person, when you feel like nothing can bring you down when you're with that one person that makes you feel alive and makes you want to take chances, they are all signs of something that can never be described in detail. Despite the arguments and the rows you love them no matter what happens. When you find that one person who can make you feel every emotion even the ones you never thought you had or have never experienced that's when you know you've found love, it's pretty much indescribable and no two people's perspectives on love are the same, similar maybe, but never identical.

Like: you like to talk with her ,like her company very much and free to say anything or u feeling
Love: you wanna talk with her everyday n feel good but u r restricted for saying smthg
In -love: you can do anything for her and always neglect her bad things

Like is a nice set of new, confusing and exciting feelings. It's great, but temporary. Being in love is when the one you're with is flawless to you. Loving someone is when you see their flaws, and except them. :)

please i real want to know the difference between love and like
You will — Derek

Love is dedicating your self 2 some one fully but like is just claiming to be in just supportig someone

I believe that most people understand what liking someone is like. We can have nice conversations with the people we like and enjoy their company which sometimes leads to dating to see if they could become more. Love would mean you have feelings that are a little stronger such as you look forward to seeing them, you start to think about them during your regular day and have a desire to get to know more about them. In love, I believe when someone is truly in love they would do ANYTHING for that person, they think about them almost all day, they go out of their way to make them happy, they put that person before them selves. If you ever experience being IN LOVE you will without a doubt know the difference!

i look at love as a component of how one feel of some at moment. like is deep in the heart which can never be change.

Anx evrthing u said here its true nd ma thoughts is hw many ppl no th diference

I love this site keep it up please i want to talk to you private if you allow i want to ask some question...

Liking someone is actually not really personal. It just means that you have some sort of feelings towards someone that you may or may not listen to. You just feel attracted to someone and may share interests.
If you are in love with someone it means you can't deny the things you feel for someone. Actually when you're in love it tends to make you a bit blind. You only really see the positive things about someone and appreciate those allot.
When you love someone it means that you have seen the positive things about them and the negative things too and you still accept him/her for who he/she is.

It's a terrible feeling when we are apart. Every thing is so conditional. What do you to do to win or show that you have these feelings. There truly is a lack of trust. Excuse I trusted and got burned . Hello! So you don't continue to keep the walls up or maybe you do i don't know anymore. It seems this is all so new to me. I have been hurt to and for 22 years I did without for the fear of what I am going through now. Maybe being alone is better. Alone is alone sharing is or could be better. It's a year and pretty much the honeymoon is over. About being alone. I have if at all only met probably 2 or 3 of his close aquaintances. I said I'd be there but at least want to know there is some kind of partnership other wards I think I might as well be solemente. 2 artists doesn't make it easy mj

I think love is when you don't hate someone's faults. You see them, but it doesn't change anything. When you like someone and you start to see their faults, it changes things.. you know you love them when you see their faults, but it doesn't change how you feel about them. I guess, you accept them wholely.

Like is usually harmless.
Love is always unconditional.
In Love is frequently painful.

I love many. I like few. I am IN love with only one.

I think love is patient and it can wait endlessly.. Coming to what i am feeling right now in my life is.. love is unconditional..it doesnt expect anything..always tries to give the best ..and i want my love to see the world with my eyes..what makes me happy and what makes me excited..it can be as simple as making tasty desert..which never prepared for anyone..love is something which is when you spend time so confortably with someone..might be stranger but so perfect in all his inperfects.. Sometimes people treat you mad but you feel that you are the best... doing the best possible thing... For me my love is someone who ..who has changed my thinking ..made me feel proud of myself..of whatever i am..and makes me feel i am not alone..even his far from me.. ...Finally after a long wait in my life-----I hope i have found my real love---AMEN

what do i called a girl loves but i dont love her

MMMM. You have to know God's Unconditional love to be able to love and be loved in return. God picture of pure unconditional love.I am in love right now its awesome, Thinkink loving is getting to know someone and having a desire to be with hi/her all the time cause when you're with them they bring out the best in you.

Loving someone and being In Love have different feelings. Loving someone .. you tell people the things you love about them.. being in love with that person there are no words that can describe how you feel. It's a deep feeling inside you for only that one person.

First time I was in love with you

Soon I was never going to leave for any reason.
When she left me my heart got broken down to the point the thought of a girlfriend or wife got me saying not a chance just sex not sure what that means you can find out more go to
Www.akow.com.

Like is liking someone for something, like their appearance. Loving someone is knowing they make you happy, when you see them you smile, your always happy around them. But if your in love, your heart beats faster when u see them or even before. Your not always happy, you get new emotions that sometimes u wished u never discover them. In love means when everything is all shader, destroyed to the point of losing yourself, and even hating the other person for all the suffering they have done, like an idiot you still hope to see that person again. Even when your happy with someone else. That's the moment you don't want to be in love because sometimes is better to just love someone

I think, love is liking some one and keeping him or her close but to a certain limit in thought, and " in love " is where love breaks the walls of your heart and at this level you can n't bare to keep away some one you from your thoughts.
At this moment he/she comes in your thought at the time of lonely, excitiment and even when ever you look at any thing that is connect with him/her.

Yes Derek..I agree..when you love someone
...you like many things or mostly all things about them.It's great when you have similar interests to share...but sometimes its your differences too that are attractive.When you are attracted to the whole person...spirit,soul,mind,body...and they feel the same towards you..wow...what a connection.When you truly love someone..they are present with you in your thoughts...A loving relationship means...you respect each other's values,similarities,differences...and come what may in life..you got each other's back's..your in each other's corners.To "fall in love"...is the sweet beginning....to continue to grow together,and be your own person..is icing on the cake.When your truly in love...you don't just love the person based on looks...you like them for all they are...flaws included...and visa versa.There is a grace and willingness to help each other shine in any facet...to bring out the best in each other."To love and be loved...is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott

To love someone: is to like allot, to take care, to trust , to enjoy and to share unconditionally.

To like: sky is the limit or not, can be in Love, marriage, work, friendship...anything.

To be in love: is a Happy Life "Happiness"...unconditional love that creates an exciting rewarding life alltogether. "You are In love with Your Life" means You are in love with your Partner

To be in Love with a person : is a stage of Like leading to love or not before the "conditional" ...

:) I think

I can tell you that you know it is the "one true love" when you can not live without them. So many people settle for someone they can live with. Keep going until you find the one you can not live without.

Sex is overrated, I want to be loved. Sex hurts. But how do you tell if someone loves you, and just doesn't want a fuck?

Thanks for explanations!

like has option but love is optionless

For example:
If u like a rose(a type of flower) than u picked up without thinking, and if u love the rose than u care more than yourself. In-love means to develope feeling of love n sexual attraction towards someone.

love means not to stay together or have a texts or calls.,yeah bt it is to stay far,miss in his absence and feel him and love him without any expection

Love is a deep emotion of liking a person unconditionally. Being in love is sickening and also most thrilling emotions, involving a lot of signs and symptom including a dreamy state of thinking of that special person all the time.

Love is a constant question as to know for sure if your partner feels the same as you do. He/She may have been hurt and say they still love their ex and still try to move on but still have this lingering in the back of their mind.

My husband and I made a mistake in getting marry he ran away from his horrible family and I wanted to get put of my parents house well I had affair because I know it was a mistake and I told him over and over again and he just now realized it but I had the affair and I am falling for this guy we file for divorce and we both sign the papers and we can't ever be friends I want to forget about that part of my life

I think the picture says it all that's real love

I have been married for 20 yes I love my husband unconditionally but he says he loves me but is not in love anymore so he wants a divorce? We can't financially it afford to live separately and the boys are still home .although they are 19 and 22 one is senior and the other cannot drive but works part time loves us together. I don't want a divorce so for the next year he says pay off the debt get the boys out on their own and prepare for him to move on. He's stressed he hates life his job and pretty much miserable. I look at at what we have as grateful but he looks at it could be better on his own? How can I manage to live through this and can it be fixed?

I say like is the beginning of friendships. In love is taking that friendship and adding sex and fun and helping them if they need it. Truly living someone is unconditional no matter what excuse vilolance. You are there accepting it all good bad hard frustrating and also sickness health faithfulness to only that one person.

I feel like is friends accaintances distant family you know but not really? Going out to have fun with. In love is the next step in friendship you really enjoy just going out with that person you throw sex into it maybe. Then real love true love is a committment to that one person who you know want to spend as much time as you can with no matter if they are working are cranky sick or what ever you will be there for them and that's who you want to do the same for you be there no matter what.

Attraction is what you see
Infatuation is what you feel
Love is what you know

a male friend of mine said the reason he stopped bothering me was because of the jerry drama that's my boyfriend. hes said for that he would take the black eye. he said I wouldn't listen to him and drop him like a penny into the ocean and make him disappear was he saying to me he wanted a relationship with me

This guy that I'm with says he's in love with me. But I don't feel it!!

am in serious relationship with someone, but i still have feelings for another person

Almost anyone of us knows Desire,
but only few of us know Love.
It’s because they are both not the same,
Love means to suffer,
Desire means to enjoy.
The one who Loves wants to serve.
The one who Loves gives his life.
And the one who Desires wants to live
and not to suffer ever
and not to suffer ever.
(Chorus)
The one who Loves can not think about
everything that he gives, he can not.
The one who Desires wants to forget
and not to cry ever, and never to cry.
Desire can end soon,
Love knows no end.
And the fact is that we all know Desire...
But only few of us know Love.
Love is the heaven and the sunlight.
Love is the total fulfillment.
It’s the ocean without an end,
it’s the glory and the peace,
it’s the glory and the peace.
Desire is the flesh and the flower.
It’s to look for the dark corner.
It’s to bite, to scratch and to kiss.
It’s a fleeting wish, a fleeting wish.
(Chorus)
The one who Loves can not think about
everything that he gives, he can not.
The one who Desires wants to forget
and not to cry ever, and never to cry.
Desire can end soon,
Love knows no end.
And the fact is that we all know Desire...
But only few of us know Love.
The one who Loves can not think about
everything that he gives, he can not.
The one who Desires wants to forget
and not to cry ever, and never to cry.
Desire can end soon,
Love knows no end.
And the fact is that we all know Desire...
...But only few of us know Love....

the answers where actually making alot of sense

Love is basically when you cannot stop thinking about a person, whether they are known for bad things or the other way round. Liking someone is having that strong feeling that's kind of complex to define as it includes liking certain features of a person....I am 17 years old

In love sex is important? Plz sir give me answer plz.

i think the same that's exactly what I think literally I'm gay and I'm 15 years old yes I know I might be to young to be in love I have found the right guy we've almost been together for six months and gosh it has been a ride but lately we have both been depress I've done a bad thing lately I was kissing another guy but we sorted everything out now me my boyfriend and the guy I cheated on him with are all very close now but if my boyfriends said he can't cope no more or died or wanted to or the other guy I'd wanted to die to cause my boyfriend is my world and the other guy is my brother and I don't want to loose them both especially my boyfriend he's the best and I'm so glad we got ourselves back on track yes we're only 15 yrs.' old and 16yrs but we've already got our life planned out xxx ;)

its like liking someone is just when u like to spend time with them but if you love some one you wld like to spend you whole life with them and when u r in love with someone you would even like to die wid them

Now, I know the difference like, love, english it difficult language.

Well to me I think that like is just someone that your crushing on but your feelings can get deeper over time. But love is different love to me is knowing that you can't go a day without talking to that person and one little mistake can mess up your whole day and that person is always on your mind but know "in love" is knowing that you you will go beyond the moon and stars for that person..And you guts understand each other and its not just about the sexual things your feelings come first.. I think being in love is hard because eventually over time the in love just turns into love but for the ones who can actually stay in love I congratulate, because sometimes it can be hard.💘

Love. Love is when you Cant picture yourself with anyone else. It's when they are the first thought on your mind in the morning & the last when you go to bed. It's when you think about them all the time. You do little things just to see them smile without getting anything in return or if they even notice. When you remember the little things about them or the things they said. You surprise them randomly with something they never thought you would even remember. Confronting them when they are upset or seem upset. Even if they say they aren't but you can tell. Love is when you can work through anything no matter what the problem because thinking about a life without them doesn't seem possible. You know when you are in love because you have a feeling for that person you never felt for anyone else before. When even the weirdest things they do you still find cute. Love is when you can trust that person no problem & they never give you a reason not to trust them. Love is hard & easy at the same time. It's compromise. To always keep the person you know is the love of your life always one up them. (In a gold way) if they bring you coffee every morning, surprise them bring them a cup of coffee & a flower!

Your taught to like people, its a learned ability. Its polite, its the right moral reality. Then u become a teen and theres hormones and for girls emotions as well. We all play a role we pretend to be interested in one another but at thus point its just practicing for the final exam. Then some of us excelled then others took a few tries others still havent made it and some wont. Then above and betond all those of us have a calling and when we finally meet that person and forge that unexplainable bond its heaven sent. I only hope one day i can count myself so lucky.

Liking someone means that you enjoy being around them, loving someone means that you just want to be with that person all the time and never want them to leave, and In love, just means that your you. When your in love with someone, you sometimes have that feeling that you want to be alone and other times want to be with that person 24/7, you change moods but deep down you are I love with him or her and will always enjoy their company. No matter how much you don't show it, you are. Your I love with someone if they are the first person you want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. And if they were to leave you, you would die without them.

Thks

Like is a warm welcome.
Love is an action.
In-love is a chemical reaction.

hiii....meself sahil.....
if I love someone and I really want....that girl span her whole life
with me.....but as your ans. in love require sex...so if we don't have greater sex....so what it means we love eachother or not.....

It only take a lifetime to found tru love ad it only take moment to lose it so if you love someone na show it, because a lost today may be a losse forever , so be wise

thanks alot i did accualy learnt alot and love it help bye

I agree; At death each person in your life will cause you to have a reaction. If two people become a melody of sharing their life with yours it will be devastating and you will feel loss and grief having that person absent from your life.
You can love someone and it is returned,love someone and it not be returned or just a social connection all will cause a different emotion.

am in love but I don't need sex is DAT love

Real love is that in which there is no any sexual attraction...this is the term about soul..

I would you know if someone is interested in you

Thanks😊😍

i thinking failing for this guy he said that I got his heart all I can keep thinking about him I feel unhappy when he is not around I thinking failing for him too.

my boyfriend said he likes me ,does he mean he will stay ,or he just came for cookie and at the end he might not love me ,but he said he wants me ,but he didn't say he loves me ,he just likes me a lot
What kind of cookie? — Derek

OUR LOVE OF FLOWERS ONE OF OUR OWN.....BLOOMED....TWIN BLOOMS ONE FOR THE ONE FOR ME.HOW BEAUTIFUL..HOW FRESH SUCH A REFLECTION OF THE BEAUTY OF OUR LOVE..BETH BEVY.....OUR FLOWERS ARE LIKE OUR LOVE........

If I like someone it is because we share interests, or I like "something" about their personality and I enjoy being with them, but do not get excited at the expectation of being with them.Loving someone as a friend means I would do anything for that person and I care about their welfare and health etc. I enjoy being with them, but do not get overly excited at the expectation of being with them.In love is more infatuation and has a more sexual connotation, but eventually develops beyond that. It offers a secure, happy, and safe feeling. He is a part of me. I would want us to always be together, emotionally, physically and spiritually.

" True Love " is unconditional, That is .. even if the person you truly love takes up a truly happy relationship with someone else. your overwhelming feeling should be Happiness for Your " True Love " .... along with a little Envy of course. True Love never dies, anyone who has experienced true love will verify this.

What if I luv some1 who I helped with sum stuff like money an I end up telling heher u luv her she jst ignore u an changing subject or topic,what that mean I don't get it an she is on relationship

I NVR fall in love becos In my opinion these r wastage of time

I love a girl but she always fights with me any stuptied reson I don't know is this the love or attraction

i m loving to someone but there another person loves me and he is also marrid and sattle in his life but he always told me that he loves me so tell me what i do?

I am yours completely... if you tell me not to have sex with a certain someone then I will not.... if you want her gone then she will be gone.. I don't expect you to do as I am but I will make myself available for you any and every time you are here and if you want to move here then you can... I will not be using protection with you and you will at least give me a son... I would not have you locked up in a hotel like I was ashamed of you... you deserve better than that ..but I think I have earned the right to pics of the butt and I am down for the Long run and I will never walk away from our union no matter what and I hope you are looking for the same but don't be afraid of my more primal side just embrace it

what i do sir ? 4 months before my gf was dead. she is no more but i love her so much i can not forget her. now i ask you something please bring me answer sir, how i do that i forget her ?

she is no more in this world but now she is in my mind every time i thinking about her it,s so painful for me please bring me some suggestion for that.

please please please. _/\_

Love is the gut feeling that comes by knowing by holding the hands of the loved one we can face the world which is against us..love is when knowing the inner most secrets, love is when we can be ourself to the...love is when they r in hurt we die for them to smile.love is when I care him like a kid..love is when I fight with him thinking I will lose him...love is when I see his eyes , I feel like he is the one and no one else shud have him other than me. Love is when a girl walks miles to see him..love is for me it's Sridhar.as long as he breathe I live.

For me love is Sridhar ! As long as he breathe I will live !
I dnt want any one else to hold him more than me.I dnt want Anyone else to love him more than I do. He is mine only !

LOVE IS A SUCH ONE OF BEST FEELING.