The Definition of Love

It is the “love” we witness from the movies that cause the confusion for many hopeless romantics. For instance, the characters from the ‘Notebook”, Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoon. Both raised in different households (basically different worlds), but yet somehow crossed paths. When crossing each other’s path at a local town carnival, Allie being on a double date with her friend Sarah. Then Noah hanging out with his friend Finn. Now in this example, It was not both of them who denied this infectious lust for one another. In the film, it seemed to show in Noah’s eye’s a certain glow that could beam to the moon, just from his friend Finn speaking Allie's name. Infatuated by Allie’s grace and beauty, Noah walks up to the beautiful girl and asks,

“Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe” (William Ellery Channing, n.d.). For many, the simple, four lettered word becomes a mere state of obsession. Everybody wants to be in love but not everyone understands its true meaning. Too often infatuation takes over and consumes one’s desire to find real love. When one meets a special person, someone who makes their heart race and their knees weak, how does one know if they’ve found true love or pure infatuation?

The relationship between women and men might be complicated for some while sometimes even a really loving relationship cannot survive if people chose their personal longing as a priority. Women and men fight in relationships; fight for more independence, fight to prove their worthiness and keep forgetting that love is not a fight but a mutual support.

David Maybury-Lewis gives us viewers some insight on romantic love, being in love and just plain old love. He says that being in love is a need for possession because we feel incomplete and this is usually why we marry. The problem we have is that feeling fades. He also says that romantic love threatens the family. Societies need people who will live for their children, not those who will die for love.

What is the difference between infatuation and love? This has been a topic of conversation for years, and yet we still have never figured out the exact answer to the question. By Webster’s Online Dictionary the definition of love is “affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests”(Webster’s). This is precisely how Edna Pontellier believes she feels about Robert Lebrun in “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin. Although on the contrary the definition of infatuation is “to cause to be foolish : deprive of sound judgment”(Webster’s), and this is more so the truth for Edna. Her need for freedom is so strong that she finds herself turning to other men just to satisfy that need. Her actions are completely opposing to her thought

In this article from Time magazine entitled “Crazy Love”, the author Steven Pinker, discusses the implications of falling in love, the extent of its effect on human beings, and the methodology of people’s endeavors to find potential spouses. The author argues that experiencing love has the power to drive humans to take actions that under rational circumstances, they would likely not partake in. Pinker asserts that the symptoms of romantic infatuation are “different from both raw lust and the enduring commitment that keeps lovers together.” That we as human beings should all know the symptoms: the idealization of our significant others, massive mood swings that vary from ecstasy to despair, the inability to eat or sleep, and the “intense need for signs of reciprocated feelings.” He

Relationships are similar to a seesaw, as the seesaw tips according to the persons sitting on the two sides; a love relationship can also lean according to the mentality of the couple in the said relationship. All they both want is what every woman wants to be loved feel special and have a fairy tale ending. They end up with the same end result learning how to love themselves in the end and not needing a man. Love and the pattern of relationships will often be fashioned on a person’s upbringing and the family life they experienced. While a person may have come from a loving home with parents who respected each other, shared responsibilities and managed to stay married, this will perhaps be the kind of relationship they will want for

According to dictionary.com, love is defined as "a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. " To infatuate is "to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love." Both words might be similar in definition, but to me, they are completely opposite. To me, the words differ because of the desires they each imply.

The read about, “love” story, Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, had meaning of words that could actually be taken differently, by dissecting the background. To have the feeling of being infatuated, is an intense passion felt in a short moment of time. It's not a long lasting feeling; real love runs much deeper than infatuation. At such a young age, Romeo and Juliet had not known the true understanding of love. Real love, is a genuine admiration for a person's qualities and character traits.

Palahniuk wrote, ‘This isn’t about love in caring. This is about property as in ownership” (Palahniuk 14). This view of love is not positive, as it is used to control others. However, there is irony within this because none of the characters within the novel want to be controlled. Not falling in love can also serve as a reason to uphold masculinity.

Love has many different meanings to different people. For a child, love is what he or she feels for his mommy and daddy. To teenage boy, love is what he should feel for his girlfriend of the moment, only because she says she loves him. But as we get older and "wiser," love becomes more and more confusing. Along with poets and philosophers, people have been trying to answer that age-old question for centuries: What is love?

One can love a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins and friends, strangers, pets, the sunlight on a warm evening, reflecting through a prism, held by fishing line stuck to a little suction cup to a dusty window. You can love food from cake to roast beef, even those tiny individual candy bars that are never enough but just give you a taste of chocolate before you pop in the second one. One is able to love the feeling of carpet between toes or the tension in a hammocks string when you lay in that 'u' position swinging delightfully with each motion of your body. We can declare love for sounds coming from a stereo, love for that particular sound wave in coordination with other

What is love? The type of love I’m describing is the one that gives you butterflies when a certain person comes to mind. Just seeing that particular person can be enough to make one smile and make your day and all the worries go away. Right now that person comes to mind. It’s neither a crush nor infatuation and many are willing to do anything for this thing that is called love. Love can hurt in the long run, and people can also be blinded by it.

The views of women and men may differ about how love is expressed. From Harvey’s description, women are seen as nurturers and men as providers. When I think of love, it is hard to narrow this complex subject into a quick and simple answer because of the many different kinds of love. When I think about my first thoughts of love it would have to be my upbringing in the Christian Church. God’s love or how God says we should love. In the

Like I mentioned in the paragraph above love is usually defined as an intensive feeling of a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone, however love is a bit more complicated than that. Love is special, it’s unique in it’s attitude and behavioral components, it’s a phenomenon that eludes easy definition (Our Sexuality, 2012). Love has always been a complicated subject; sometimes love is fickle, sometimes love isn’t love, but rather pure infatuation. Infatuation is often mistaken for love, however it is only a short lived but intense passion for someone. It’s possible that since many infatuations are mistaken love that many researches regarding the measurements of love would include individuals infatuated with each other. In one possible case, a man named Zick Rubin wished to measure love and liking. He set up 13 questions