So, what does love mean to you?

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I loved the thread about what love means to children ages 4-8 years old. What a hoot!

What's ironic is that I was thinking about this very topic quite seriously here recently, and here's what love means to me:

Love is when someone knows the worst possible thing about you, and they still love you, anyway. -Catwoman, age 35

So, what does love mean to you?
 
I think that's pretty close to my description, except I think of it as they know EVERYTHING about you, including all your insecurities and personality foibles and they still love and you are secure enough with them to let them see all that. And the other way around. And absolute trust with your feelings. Respect must go with it too. It's great if you even find one person in your life on that level...so far, I've just found it with one friend.
 
Yep, that's it. I am blessed to have much of that! And when they see you looking your worst and refuse to let you chop on yourself by reassuring you look beautiful because they don't believe you can look any other way. My DH does that to me.
Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver
 
To me, love is everything you guys said and then some. It is giving without expecting anything in return. It is putting someone else's needs before yours. I know my husband loves me because he won't complain that we have seen the same silly romance for the third time in a row (not like I would do that :p .) It is also forgiving and not holding grudges. I know this was cheesy, but love does get me mushy!
 
For me it is everything you said and also moments in your life when you can experience it without saying it. For instance the love between my husband and I was evident after giving birth not because of the experience of having children but he was the one who sat me up in the hospital, helped me get to the bathroom, walked the halls with me and went and got me chinease food at midnight. I rembering feeling such a closeness to him in those moments. It is not only a feeling but an action of doing and not realizing how you are affecting someone. When I look back at the births of my childeren it was love that got me through them and I don't even think he knew it was those things that made me feel loved the most.
 
This is a conversation my son and I had just before Valentine's, soon after I picked him up from school:

Him: Mom, love comes knocking on your door when you give it.
Me: (trying to get through traffic, mind not quite there) Why would love be knocking on MY door?
Him: (hint of impatience) BECAUSE Mom... love is a CIRCLE. It goes around, and when you GIVE love, it comes BACK to YOU!

The next time I saw my son's teacher, I had this incredible urge to kiss her. There Mrs. Harris... all that caring and wisdom you give to my boy, rightbackatcha!

Pinky
 
Love is unconditional! You love somebody and accept them as they are! Is putting someonelse needs ahead of your own, love is being selfless, kind and compassionate. Is to understand before being understood, Is too do give without expecting anything in return. To do evething with love is to do it well. Love, live and learn!

Jadore
 
Sitting the hospital visiting my Mom, with my sister and her DH. My sister had recently had a double mastectomy and was going through horrific chemotherapy. She had no hair, was wearing a wig, no eyelashes, no eyebrows. She was talking about how she felt "grey". Her DH looked at her and said "you look beautiful".

Now THAT'S love:)
 
LOVE to me is:

1. Smelling your dh's morning breathe and can still kiss himx(
2. Knowing your dh's feet stink like heckx( x( and I can still cuddle up next to him.
3. Your dh can eat your cooking when it's an experience and not complain about it (not unless he was starving which is why he didn't comment)
4. Having a HUGH argument with dh and he walks out, (takes a ride, just to come back) and he sits and sleeps in the car all night long watching the house/gym to make sure I'm safe}( .
5. Dh loves my children and grandchild as his own. I feel bad for him sometimes b/c he has no child/ren of his own....Before anyone says anything.....I'M TOO OLD.
6. Loving my dh}( }( }(

We are talking about our dh's right;(


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Haydee
 
That's beautiful. You guys have a real handle on love.

So....

Reaching into my Judeo-Christian upbringing, I can't help but think of this description from the New Testament, which describes it so perfectly. And I am going to post it because I like what it says and I think it's valuable to everyone one, whether you are Jewistian, as my oldest daughter describes herself, with her parents raised in the Jewish and Christian faiths, although Mom has an abiding interest in Eastern religions and philosophies, or any whether you are any other kind of believer or non-believer:

It goes like this:

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 the truth.

Love always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.

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

Love never ends.

L o v e N e v e r F a i l s.

Corinthians 13 : 4 - 8


Bobbi http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/chicken.gif "Chick's rule!"

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver
 
Love is when you are eating your most favorite dessert or meal and you have saved the very best bite for last and your dh asks for it and you give it to him.

Laura
 
Right before spinal surgery my husband told me three things to make me feel less frightened, and anxious:
1. I love you
2. You will be okay, and I will be there in the recovery room so you see me before anyone else when you wake up (hes a doc at the hospital where surgery took place).
3. You have to have the surgery because you cant live in this much pain, and you will be in less pain afterward surgery so you can enjoy life again.

Only then did I really know this was what true love was about.
 
Love is when my DH doesn't have any chocolate ice cream (his favorite) because there's not enough for both of us (there's only a quart left) and he wants me to enjoy it. :)
 
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