Love is where you understand. You are willing to give and not take. Love is precious.
on a side note....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1uSm8pc-aQ

Love for a mate is when you can't stand to be away from them. That you care about their needs even if it is not in your best interest ( but you dont do anything to harm yourself to their betterment)

You feel connected, blessed, happy, you feel secure and you enjoy the little things. They get you your morning coffee. they are there when you get home and are tired. They are there to celebrate the goodness in life and the bleakest points in life......

That is what love is...

oH MY gOD THAT IS LIKE ASKING WHAT IS LIFE. But to me, love is uncoditional given freely and we all run the risk that it will be tossed aside.

i tried to answer and i could not. i was going on the premise of a man/woman relationship and looking back now after everything ive been through, i have never had it, so i don't know. wow, how sad.

chruop. You know what love is. You have children and grandchildren. So no thats not sad is it?

Love is unconditional, it is giving your heart to someone so they can break it, but trusting that they won't. Love is looking into that other persons eyes and knowing that is the person you want to spend the rest of your life with. It is forgiving but never vengeful, it is putting that other person first before your own needs. When you are with them everything feels right, and when they are not around you can't wait to see them. It is loving that person faults and all and accepting them as they are, not for what you want them to be.

Love is a strong, complex emotion or feeling causing one to appreciate, delight in, and crave the presence or possession of another and to please or promote the welfare of the other: devoted affection or attachment.

That's as close as I can come to answer "What is Love?".

Sometimes I think love in society has turned into another word for lust though.

I just can't help but post this song, What is Love?:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK2HLC3_UxI

I honestly don't know anymore!

Well put Lovesuks...
and I will add to that, that love is that feeling you have inside your heart everytime you hear them say your name. Or when you see each other at the end of the day and can put all other worries to the side so that you can make that connection to each others heart. To be able to look in their eyes and say "I love you" and know that it is coming from their heart. Love is that little grain of sand that continues to grow into something beautiful and priceless.

There are many different kinds of love and many different levels. It is less of a feeling and more a practice of what you do and how you act. Of course the feelings are there, but those are often constantly evolving and beyond definition.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails...

Hey reply # 11...
...I read the bible and agree 100%. I refuse to take anything away from the bible, or add anything to it. It is good for me, a sinner, to do that.

As I read your reply something jumped out at me....
"...it keeps no record of wrongs."

????????

Boy, what a bible study that one would make!

Does that mean no woman on earth is capable of love?

Now ya got me thinkin...lol.

#12... two other renderings of that passage reads like this:
1)...does not count up wrongs that have been done...
2)...does not keep account of the injury...

Maybe #1 might fit the bill a little better...surely we wouldn't want to harp on every little transgression, but just as the passage continued..."does not delight in evil but rejoices in truth"...certainly love wouldn't condone a wrong or an injury such as adultery, especially if it was committed over and over again.

....so, as the first entry in exs log states...

July 27th, 1989, 11:12:04 a.m., husband raised voice slightly above normal talking level.

...and thousands of mental recordings like that shouldnt be thrown in my face everytime I disagree, right?

yes jungle, thanks. i'm not sad at all at the love i feel for my grandson or my children. was only responding to man/woman relationship. thank you for the gentle reminder that perhaps that is where my thinking should be and stay.