Yeah. screw science.

As I've been single since...well, since I'm born, this is the only thing I can tell about :

mKeRix knows what he's talking about. And it makes a shit ton of sense.

I've already started seeing flaws in my girlfriend as well, but I love who she is. With all her flaws and perfections.

I'm sorry to hear that Br00tal :L

Yeah, I wouldn't say love is about the lack of flaws or perception of perfection at all. I'd say love is about understanding, moving past, and working with those flaws. Loving someone and wanting to be with someone despite said flaws (if you even identify those things as "flaws" in the first place, despite the reservations of your partner). Because we all have something about ourselves that we might not share with the rest of the world. Someone who loves you will be able to look past all that. (unless you're a serial killer or something xD)

Ah , as I said, love is a different thing for everyone.
I do mean you do see flaws and imperfections, but you don't mind them. Because you love her.
Also I think I can never give a right description of how love feels. It's indescribable.

I forgot where I heard this but:

"Love is a mask that covers the true meaning of life which is suffering and pain"

Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclined,
Lawless, winged, and unconfined,
And breaks all chains from every mind.
~William Blake

mKeRix pretty much summed it up. Lol

Love is different for everybody and only you can determine whether it's true love or not. But when you finally experience it, it's definitely amazing. ^-^

Love is sweeter than candy,
More beautiful than a sunset,
And more deadly than poison

Waah. So many stories to hear :o First of all, sorry to all those who has had bad experiences with relationships and love and I hope you've all found a better place since then

Secondly, i want to add my two cents to the topic. I don't think true love is specifically for the gender you're interested in. I use it for those I trust as my closest friends and those who are my close family, even my pets. I say anyone who has been there long enough in your life, sticked with you through the good and bad times and have made you a better person than you would've been if you hadn't met them, I truely love these people. I have had two friends like this throughout my life. One of these are gone now, she was my first true friend. The second I met about 5 years ago and he's my like a brother to me now. I'd also say I truely love my parents, for all they've done for me. They've always supported me and helped me even if sometimes my vision was a bit blurred and I didn't see it at the time. I truely love(d) my cats too, 3 were around since I was born 'til my late teens and my current 3 have been with me for 4 years I think. They've always been there to comfort me when I've been down and it's amazing how much it helps to relieve your feelings. You might think 'Woah, you're freaking weird, talking to animals and shizz' but I guess it's my own way in letting go.

Now onto feelings in relationships. I can't really say I've experienced a relationship where the other has loved me back 100%. It's always been more of a short crush but I guess I'm still young and it's hard to commit. I thought that I'd experienced true love a few times but looking back, i just wanted it to be love and deluded myself into thinking that. I don't think you'll know what true love is when you get it. It'll creep up on you slowly, then strike you from behind like a ninja. I don't believe in love at first sight either, they're commonly known as crushes in my book and they're called crushes for a reason, If you believe they're true love, you'll get crushed. That's from my experiences and I stick by that now. I think true love comes from someone you've known for a long time and you have seen them at their worst and at their best. You know their flaws and enjoy them despite it. It's just being fully comfortable when with them.

They're just my thoughts, it seems everyone has their own feelings and thoughts on the subject and I don't think that's a problem. It all comes from personal experiences.

tl;dr: read it bish, it's not something i can summarise

I got to say, love itself is beautiful. What makes a person depressed and sad is not love.
You are in love when you always want to give and you don't wait for that person to give back.
He or she is perfect in any way, you accept everything about that person.

In line with this, I will share a very nice excerpt from Sandman by Neil Gaiman:

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable.
It opens your chest and it opens up your heart
and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor,
so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person,
no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life…


You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it.
They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or
smile at you, and then your life isn’t
your own anymore.


Love takes hostages. It gets inside you.
It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness,
so simple a phrase like ‘maybe we should be just
friends’ turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination.
Not just in the mind.
It’s a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.


I hate love.

What an interesting thread. Maybe I'll add my thoughts in it, even tho I can't promise to give you anything new.

My latest relationship lasted almost 4 years. The break-up was a surprise, because I honestly thought we were doing great. I loved him, I was comfortable around him and I was able to be myself. Then I went through some tough period and was pretty upset and cranky some times. It was only temporary, lasted only that one fall, I knew it and he knew it. I was thankful for his love, and that he loved me even tho I wasn't doing so good.

Pfft, yeah right, he left right before I was starting to do better. He said that he simply didn't love me anymore, but hoped we could stay as friend. Nothing I could do about it. If if doesn't love me, he doesn't. But my god that came as a surprise! My true love ended just like that.

And here we get to the real topic, true love. Yes, I thought he was my true love, and I still think that. Not like I want him back or anything, but the memories from times we were doing great, still make me think that it was true love. I'm so grateful and happy I was able to experience that.

Damn it hurt. That's the bad side of love. More you care, more it hurts if it ends. But I still believe in true love. I never could not to. The thought of some day finding true love (that will last) is something that keeps me going. Well, that and some good music

But why finding it is so hard?

Because we are all living in the illusions of life. There are things in life we see that are not real and yet we believe them to be. The fact is, there are only a small number who can separate the truth from an illusion. They don't have to be psychics or scientific geniuses (well, they could be), they can just be normal people, but what they will all have in common is the experience, but even then, experience might not be enough to see. It's a difficult agenda which has no straight forward answer :/

Alright guys, based on my own experience. True love is those thingily feelings inside your tummy whenever you see your crush. MY. EXPERIENCE. FML

I know so many people have replied already but I thought I would put in what I think as it includes something that recently happened:

Okay so I thought that I had found true love, I found the perfect girl, pretty ,smart (and a gamer). We hit it off from day one and we had a great time together pretty much all the time.

After about a year and a half she moved a bit further away, not too far but far enough to make it awkward what with college (UK college) and all. This put strain on us but I thought we would get through.

About a year later (a few months back) we started growing apart, she kept making excuses not to see me and it hurt, a lot. Then last week she broke up with me, by text. Seriously the worst feeling I have ever felt in my entire life. We are still friends but I will never forget that pain.

So the moral of my lengthy and quite frankly boring story is; True love does exist however your true love now may not be your only true love. You are always changing and with that, the people who you belong with are always changing so your true love at every point in your life can change. Of course there comes a time when you settle down and find "The One" but don't be hell bent on finding that person. Enjoy the love you have now, however long it lasts for and hope that if it's not eternal then the next person you find will be just that little bit better for you.

I was always a lonely person since I remember, and before (when I was younger) I never had real friendships and never gave importance to my parents' affect.
When I met my ex boyfriend, something changed. I opened myself a little bit more, and I think I learned to love him. I think it's my fault too if we're no more together, because I loved him just a little more as an common friend. We're not even friends anymore, and after all he did to me (ignoring me and doing things for get me jealous) after we part, I feel I won't give him a chance to get back friends in future
Now I have another relationship, through it's a little bit weird because both of us don't take it too seriously XD it's complicated!
But in conclusion... Now I believe only in the love others give me, I never gived priorities to someone and maybe I will never do it, because it would bring only to blindness and would consume me slowly, like a sigarette. And after all ends, there would be only ashes and a soft scent of it. It's better loving the people that surrounds me, or loving my own hobbies :3

I've seen a lot of inspiration quotes in this thread already but I believe I'm about to blow you all out of the water with this master piece:

[Youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iz5eKT5NJ0[/Youtube]

Yep... "Love isn't blind: it's retarded" ~ Charlie Sheen

I'll try to make my love story short.
I was shy and lonely when she appeared, As I've always been. I revealed my inner feelings, anger, pain, my desire of love, everything. And she was there for me, supported me, comforted me. She made me feel better, she even made me happy and I was really happy. I began to love her, I told her that I loved her and she said she thought I was cute. So we went together and our love grew stronger and I gave her all my love that I had kept inside me all me life in lack of someone to give it to.
She took my love she gave me love and she asked me where I had been whole her life. We were the happiest couple in mankind's history.
Then one day she turned her back on me. She said that she began to have feelings to someone else. She dumped me, and I tried to get her back. She came back to me only to leave me once more. And so it continued until my hart was chopped into pieces and I was afraid of being hurt again. So I stopped trying.
Ever since then I've never tried to get a girlfriend again. I fell in love in a couple of girls, yes. But I never tried to make them love me back afraid of being hurt once more.
This experience made me write a novel about it. read it if you want it's on my blog named: I wrote something for you.
The story is called: A shadows friend.

Very clichéd ideal I have, but I reckon you can love a lot of different people, but there will be that one or two people who will just connect to you like no one else will.

Try not to let them go.



"I can't love anyone else as much as I love you, because I already gave everything to you"