Falling in Love

[loseyourname]

Okay - this keeps getting brought up in every other thread, but it doesn't seem to have ever been discussed in depth. So what are your thoughts on falling in love?

Have you ever been in love? How do you know that it's really love? Would you do it/do it again? Do you think you even have any choice in the matter? Does love scare you?

And of course, I will get around to posting my own thoughts on the matter, even though I have said a lot about it on other threads.

[TJ]

There is no such thing we are all animals and are following our instincts(i remembered the word). forget about love and just have fun

[loseyourname]

Is there no instinct for being attracted to one person and one person alone to the extent that it will keep a family together, enhance the survival chances of offspring, and keep the gene pool going? Surely women at least must have this instinct.

If this instinct does exist, then we would have no choice but to fall in love, but it would still happen

[libra98k]

men have to very strong emotionaly to control their " falling in love crap".

[Anonymouse]

I dont know about "falling in love" but I've sort of been on the edge of the plate of love and tasted it.

It was a bit sweet yet sour, sort of like sweet torture. Sound confusing?

[patlajan]

We're also ignoring other kinds of love besides the romantic kind. All of you probably love somebody. So I'm going to say yes there is such a thing as love.

[whitelotus]

ive loved in all forms

but now speaking romantically...

yes ive fallen in love once. i know its love because its nothing ive ever felt before, ive felt infatuation, obsession, lust, whole 9 yards. But when you cannot think, sleep, nor eat without thinking about someone, where you cry, when you cannot imagine your life or future without them, when there name resounds in your head.Its a beautiful thing, but its also extremly painful, it left a lot of scars on my heart, i like the idea but i also hate it a great deal.

[Anonymouse]

Originally posted by patlajan We're also ignoring other kinds of love besides the romantic kind. All of you probably love somebody. So I'm going to say yes there is such a thing as love.

So love is an emotion or a feeling? Hmm something you cannot prove scientifically? Gee I wonder what it is and how it got here.

[ckBejug]

How's this for scientific fact. A person who has a broken heart can actually feel physical pain. And I'm not just talking people like me who love to have psychosomatic manifestations of emotional pain in the form of physical pain like a stomach ache. I'm talking honest to God your heart hurts, your body hurts. Yeah, yup. I will try to find the article and post it if anyone is interested. Is it strange that after all that we still want to be in love again? Yeah. Like I said before... The ends more than justifies the means (and then some) and all the hurt it takes to get there.

[loseyourname]

ck, I could not eat without getting terribly sick, I could go to sleep just fine but never slept more than three hours, and I couldn't sit or walk around without shaking - all in all, a pathetic mess. But hey, it only lasted a couple of weeks. It was worth it to be in love.