What falling in love feels like to you

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The discussion revolves around the complexities of love, highlighting both its enchanting and painful aspects. Participants reflect on the vulnerability that love brings, describing it as a force that can disrupt one's life and emotional defenses. Experiences of love range from passionate infatuation to deep, lasting connections, with some expressing a preference for stable, platonic relationships over intense romantic ones. Humor is interwoven throughout the conversation, with anecdotes about personal relationships and the challenges of intimacy. Ultimately, the dialogue captures the bittersweet nature of love, revealing its capacity to both uplift and wound.
  • #31
big man said:
That has to be about the strangest response I've seen. What does that even mean??
You think that to love someone you have to have some sort of mid-day illusions of them in the sky and 'feel the effects inside you'??

The more you cry the more you love someone? Give me a break. Crying to me seems more like a way of releasing all the depression that comes about when something bad has happened to someone you love. However, you can still be extremely hurt inside if you don't cry. Some people just aren't that emotional, but it doesn't mean that they don't care deeply for people and that they wouldn't be truly saddened when something bad happened.

Ok. How about a more general less emotional one. You are in love with someone when you think about them, you think about (your) life itself.
 
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  • #32
I've kinda always been looking for love... Trying to force it trying to find the one person who could make me happy. This weekend I tried harder than ever before and nothing happened. The day after I had done some really really stupid stuff I decided I should take it easy and not really try. This super amazing girl who had a boyfriend started talking to me. I knew her boyfriend but I decided I should be friendly so we talked and I was completely honest about everything no matter how much it would make her dislike me. We kept talking and we played 2 games of beerpong and then we started playing basketball. Witch she was pretty good at but everything else seemed to disappear all my worries were gone it was just me and her hanging out having the most amazing time ever. I could completely be me and she was completely herself and I want a million nights like that just because it was sooo amazing. I've been with other girls but nothing seemed so right as what that feeling we had between us plus she's like the coolest girl I've ever met. And if this is not the feeling of love then I don't know what is
 
  • #33
mathwonk said:
sort of like proving a theorem, you're happy all over and wonder if it can really be true.

:!)

Mathwonk, you are awesome.
 
  • #34
Two year old necropost.
 
  • #35
Evo said:
Two year old necropost.

Do people search for "what does it feel like to fall in love" in google and find this? Blows my mind the amount of necroposting I see happen now-a-days!
 
  • #36
Well, falling in love can result in a person wandering around like a zombie - just a happy zombie.
 
  • #37
BobG said:
Well, falling in love can result in a person wandering around like a zombie - just a happy zombie.
There are less pleasant forms of madness. When you are very young, you won't appreciate the previous sentence.
 
  • #38
I thought it was like butterflies .. either in stomach or heart, unfortunately, I cannot substantiate this claim through any love song..
 
  • #39
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNSVKFqh5A
This about sums up my 17 year old love life.:cry:
 
  • #40
When my now-ex and I first met, he asked me if I'd ever been "in love". I told him that I thought I had been a couple of times, either that, or I'd experienced a couple of longish anxiety attacks.
 
  • #41
The Bible explains what it feels like to fall in love, but I think that part is often misinterpreted.

It feels like someone reaching inside you and ripping out a rib - it feels okay at first as long as everything is happening real slow (in fact, you might think you're just getting tickled), but it's going to hurt eventually.
 
  • #42
:!) As a person that is currently in love i describe love as: missing that special person everyday, wanting to be with him constantly, constantly thinking about him throughout the day, having a smile from ear to ear when i receive a text message or call from him, willing to do anything for that him (not always a good side effect of love), texting with him all day everday, loving the cologne that he wears, making plans for the future with him, wanting and trying to be the best possible person and lover for him, looking your best for him, never wanting to see him unhappy sad or upset, loving all the little things he does for me, the first person i think about when waking up in the morning. =D
 
  • #43
"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness."

~Friedrich Nietzsche
 
  • #44
Love stinks. First they lie to you to get you to want them, then they dump you. "Oh look, someone else wants me, hadn't counted on that happening..bye".
 
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  • #45
Kinda like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2FwAWtL4Q
 
  • #46
ocan said:
:!) As a person that is currently in love i describe love as: missing that special person everyday, wanting to be with him constantly, constantly thinking about him throughout the day, having a smile from ear to ear when i receive a text message or call from him, willing to do anything for that him (not always a good side effect of love), texting with him all day everday, loving the cologne that he wears, making plans for the future with him, wanting and trying to be the best possible person and lover for him, looking your best for him, never wanting to see him unhappy sad or upset, loving all the little things he does for me, the first person i think about when waking up in the morning. =D

that wouldn't last long :smile:
 
  • #47
Feels like a warm, sugar cookie in my belly...ahhh, cookie
 
  • #48
It feels like anxiety, except it doesn't make me suicidal.
 
  • #49
TubbaBlubba said:
It feels like anxiety, except it doesn't make me suicidal.

Oh for crying out loud
 
  • #50
cronxeh said:
Oh for crying out loud

What? That's the best way I can describe it.
 
  • #51
TubbaBlubba said:
What? That's the best way I can describe it.

Its the adrenaline that's giving you the butterflies, anxiety, fear, excitement, and heart racing. You then follow up with a dopamine spike (pleasure), serotonin spike (fantasy), and reinforce with oxytocin and vasopressin after sex. You feel all pumped and reenergized, like a nice little Darwinian-Pavlov poodle.

Sex and love are a delusion created by your brain in order to justify its own existence and get high. And it all started with a damned kiss, when your brain analyzed the MHC in saliva and concluded that it wants variety in genetic offspring.
 
  • #52
cronxeh said:
Its the adrenaline that's giving you he butterflies, anxiety, fear, excitement, and heart racing. You then follow up with a dopamine spike (pleasure), serotonin spike (fantasy), and reinforce with oxytocin and vasopressin after sex. You feel all pumped and reenergized, like a nice little Darwinian-Pavlov poodle.

Sex and love are a delusion created by your brain in order to justify its own existence and get high.

This sounds reasonable. But hey, it feels good. Sometimes. And feeling good is good enough for me.
 
  • #53
TubbaBlubba said:
This sounds reasonable. But hey, it feels good. Sometimes. And feeling good is good enough for me.

Agreed. And its cheaper than drugs and your girlfriend can also make you a sandwhich and fetch a beer after its all done :biggrin:
 
  • #54
TubbaBlubba said:
This sounds reasonable. But hey, it feels good. Sometimes. And feeling good is good enough for me.

Good enough for me and Bobby McGee.
 
  • #55
BobG said:
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee.
Well you just keep your harpoon in your bandanna!
 
  • #56
cronxeh said:
Its the adrenaline that's giving you the butterflies, anxiety, fear, excitement, and heart racing. You then follow up with a dopamine spike (pleasure), serotonin spike (fantasy), and reinforce with oxytocin and vasopressin after sex. You feel all pumped and reenergized, like a nice little Darwinian-Pavlov poodle.

Sex and love are a delusion created by your brain in order to justify its own existence and get high. And it all started with a damned kiss, when your brain analyzed the MHC in saliva and concluded that it wants variety in genetic offspring.

OK Cronxeh...come back to the matrix with the rest of us...
 
  • #57
HeLiXe said:
OK Cronxeh...come back to the matrix with the rest of us...

I am stuck in my own nightmare
 
  • #58
Is that what you call reality?:wink:
 
  • #59
In about 2 months (may be 6-7 weeks), it will be the 30th anniversary of meeting my wife. We didn't start dating for about 7 months (we went to different universities 90 miles apart), but we keep running into each other at various gatherings of friends. After 7 months, during spring break (1981), I asked her out, and we've been together ever since.
 
  • #60
Astronuc said:
In about 2 months (may be 6-7 weeks), it will be the 30th anniversary of meeting my wife. We didn't start dating for about 7 months (we went to different universities 90 miles apart), but we keep running into each other at various gatherings of friends. After 7 months, during spring break (1981), I asked her out, and we've been together ever since.

Now imagine if you forgot about that anniversary? :smile:
 

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