Why is it that someone we do not realize we really love someone?
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This is a classic trait of selfishness and only thinking of oneself
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Perhaps our deffinition of love is what is lacking. Is it just some warm fuzzy feeling that we have for another or is it more? Maybe true love is the compassion and understanding of wanting to heal someone that is broken and rejected by acts of that compassion and not by further rejection because a person doesn't meet our standards or capacity to maintain that love. Its easy to love that which is loveable. God loves us all with an active healing love and it is freely offered to anyone and everyone who will recieve it. It is that love that He gives each of us that allows us to go beyond ourselves and our own nature to be Jesus to those that need Him most. Love in Christ, ~J~ <><
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When you feel like your whole being is being entwined with the other person's. When you look at them, and can't imagine life without them. When you don't feel 'in love' but you know deep down that part of them is inside your heart, and part of you is their's to keep. When no matter what they do you know you just need to make it work.
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There is real love. I have been attached to or dependent on  people that I didn't necessarily love. I have called these experiences love out of desperation, but I have also felt true love for others. I just haven't often had it returned. I've had people swear that they did love me, but it was more need than anything--you can tell who does and does not love you by refusing to be a door mat. The ones who remain love you.
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Love can't be explained. It has to be felt, and not just with your heart, you must feel it with your whole body and soul. There is no question about whether you love someone or not. You just know it. You can feel it. You want to go the extra mile just to tell them that you love them. Love comes when you least expect it. So don't think about, and you will find it.
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It's not really a feeling you can describe, it just sort of happens. And love is different for everybody. You'll know when it happens. You wont know why or how, you'll just know that you love the person. And that's all there is to it.
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it will take you some time to get over this person but you will trust me.  they are obviously emotionally imature.  on some level they likely do love you, just don't really understand what real love is and throw the word around without understanding the reprecussions of what it may do to the person the say it to.  could be a serial commitmentphobe or just an immature person who has no clue what they are doing.   be thankful to be out of it before it has been months or years.
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you can love someone and not be in love with them, but you can't be in love with them and not love them . You love a person for what they are , you fall in love with a person for who they are.
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Amen to Jammin Answer. When some one falls in love everyone in the world doesn't exist but u and the person u are in love with. Don't confuse love with like.
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i think that most people just know, and at the same time many people question it, they always wonder : can this be it, is it really going to work, and so forth. the way i look at it is: when you look at the person do you think of anyone else, do you see yourself with this person "forever", do you want to grow old with this person. no one else but you can determine if you are in love or not, this is your question to answer, not ours.
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Keep on loving he or she. The love we give is the love we kept. Being deeply loved by someone gives her/him strength, deeply love somebody gives you courage.\nKeep rollin! Be patient. No pain no gain, you will appreciated more if you get somebody that is not easy to get, rather than just anybody.
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Both!  when you are in love and dont know if the other person loves you back, we are blithering idiots I think.  When the knowledge is there that we are loved back, it is enlightenment, \n(at least it was for me!)
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You're probably clinging because people do that when they're stressed (I can certainly relate).  Also, you can feel in love with someone -- even in the romantic sense -- without being sexually attracted to them.  If you've never met this woman before, you can't know whether the two of you would have any sexual chemistry together -- you can't know that until you meet in person.
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Personally, I think love is something that you can't HONESTLY define until you've experienced it. It seems to me like you'd know when you are and when you aren't.
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I think once they (?you) have had an "epiphany" or such a strong, beautiful, climactic experience that they can't remember their\nnew bf's name...for a few seconds or maybe minutes....then, honey, you (they) can be sure U.R.  IN LOVE.
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why are u try to find reason in the fascinity of love?  it is not ment for understanding and disecting, that's the beauty of it.
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I think that love is real...but it is proven that there are chemical reactions within the brain that wane down after a couple of years...so the one you love becomes more of a trusted companion as opposed to a lover...but i think that love is real, and that there is someone meant for everyone(...i just wish i could find that someone...)