Love.

[Lobsang]

Let's talk about Love.

I haven't been in Love for many years.

Is there a better feeling than Love (drug induced or not)

I 'love' many things and people but that is a feeble gesture next to "In Love"

[Czarcasm]

Let's talk about Love.

I haven't been in Love for many years.

Is there a better feeling than Love (drug induced or not)

I 'love' many things and people but that is a feeble gesture next to "In Love"Transferring therapy session from IMHO to MPSIMS.

[dgrdfd]

Is there a better feeling than Love (drug induced or not)

I submit alcohol and opiates as better than any love I have ever felt.

[Bam Boo Gut]

May I nominate lust?

[Sapo]

Transferring therapy session from IMHO to MPSIMS.
What happens to a thread after the mods pass it all around to each other and it returns to its original forum?

[Justin Credible]

What happens to a thread after the mods pass it all around to each other and it returns to its original forum?

It gets mocked behind its back for being a slut. ;)

[eleanorigby]

...is softer than an easy chair.
Fresh as the morning air.


Among other things. I'd write more but I've forgotten your point, already.

[AllWalker]

I think I've said this on SDMB before, but love comes second to inspiration. Similar highs, but there's no such thing as unrequited inspiration.

Of course, that just says something about inspiration's consistency. When you are loved and in love, it's a pretty hard feeling to top.

[The Great Sun Jester]

I've been in love. Am right now as a matter of fact. A wise man once told me that "True love is the best thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT."

But you want to know if anything is better? Yeah. There is something. In all seriousness. The first breath I took in my new residence after I left my wife. Anyone following my saga will deduce that I've actually left her twice. Both times it was the same and extraordinarily difficult to describe. Love is ... euphoric, out of body, you feel invincible, the world is a beneficient place and anything is possible. But what I say trumps that is the knowledge that you've just survived something horrible. Not unscathed, not whole, maybe not even happy. But you've made it through the gauntlet and are again in control of your own destiny. Love makes things feel possible, but the other thing is a demonstration. It's real, and it doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

It's a little colder, rougher, less protective. But it's defiitely more satisfying.

[Lobsang]

Inigo, My "You've just survived something horrible" was University, and getting a Pass grade despite being fairly convinced that I'd failed.

Uni was hell and I got out. For years afterwards I had nightmares about being at uni, the deadline for some big project was tomorrow and I'd done no work. Then I wake up and realize I'm out of Uni.

[Triskadecamus]

"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love." ~ 1 Corinthians 13:13 ~

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." ~ Lao-Tzu ~

"Don't you want somebody to love?" ~ Grace Slick ~

Tris

[Hugh Jass]

Love returned is a better feeling than just "Love"

[in hiding]

Love - huh - yeah
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing

... ...I might just be in a bad mood right now, carry on.

[SaharaTea]

I'm not sure there's a better feeling than when you're just beginning to fall in love with someone and it's all scary and intense and exciting.

Maybe winning the lottery would be better, but I'm not likely to know. :)

[brujaja]

Don't start me. Love is the only thing I have ever really wanted. It looks like I'm not going to get it, this life. Damn.

[Omegaman]

Funky butt kind or regular?

[olivesmarch4th]

I've been in love. Am right now as a matter of fact. A wise man once told me that "True love is the best thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT."

But you want to know if anything is better? Yeah. There is something. In all seriousness. The first breath I took in my new residence after I left my wife. Anyone following my saga will deduce that I've actually left her twice. Both times it was the same and extraordinarily difficult to describe. Love is ... euphoric, out of body, you feel invincible, the world is a beneficient place and anything is possible. But what I say trumps that is the knowledge that you've just survived something horrible. Not unscathed, not whole, maybe not even happy. But you've made it through the gauntlet and are again in control of your own destiny. Love makes things feel possible, but the other thing is a demonstration. It's real, and it doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

It's a little colder, rougher, less protective. But it's defiitely more satisfying.

As someone who is both deeply in love and who also has survived something horrible, I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the truth in this sentiment.

[Creaky]

I submit alcohol and opiates as better than any love I have ever felt.

I'll second you on the alcohol part, seriously.

See, you don't have to actually talk to the alcohol or worry about its feelings or remember its birthday or deal with its parents or buy it Christmas presents or call it on the phone.

Yes, I am a crabby, lazy old broad. :D

[Sir T-Cups]

The feeling of being in love, and losing love is summed up for me like this....

While the absolute love of my life up and left me the one thing I couldn't stop was her in my dreams.

In those dreams I would dream of us talking, she would say something to the effect of "no we shouldn't get back together" etc; and eventually she would come back to me, and the feeling of happiness I had was amazing...


...then I woke up, and the feeling of the happiness crashing down to the depression of reality is a terrible horrible feeling that is impossible to describe...but let me assure you it is the worst feeling I have ever felt in my life.

That's love for me: That invincible feeling of happiness and confidence, with the threat of the hopeless feeling of loneliness and sadness that leaves you wondering if anybody cares about you at all?

[ASAKMOTSD]

[Tina Turner]
What's love got to do, got to do with it
What`s love but a second hand emotion
What`s love got to do, got to do with it
Who needs a heart
When a heart can be broken
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[Celyn]

Inigo, My "You've just survived something horrible" was University, and getting a Pass grade despite being fairly convinced that I'd failed.

Uni was hell and I got out. For years afterwards I had nightmares about being at uni, the deadline for some big project was tomorrow and I'd done no work. Then I wake up and realize I'm out of Uni.

Oh, I don't think university has to be "hell" to get that. I thought it was one of those extremely common dreams, like discovering you are naked or inadequately dressed in public or whatever. Hell, I've had dreams that sent me back to actual SCHOOL, which was scary until I remembered (in the dream) "oh, hang on, I've done all this and passed it many years ago". :)

[Nava]

Pchts, I've been in love/lust once and it wasn't all it's cracked up to be at all. I did verify that smoke does get in your eyes, though.

I'd rather love and at the same time be in lust with the same object of affection, but with no smoke involved if that's all right.

[Lobsang]

Oh, I don't think university has to be "hell" to get that. I thought it was one of those extremely common dreams, like discovering you are naked or inadequately dressed in public or whatever. Hell, I've had dreams that sent me back to actual SCHOOL, which was scary until I remembered (in the dream) "oh, hang on, I've done all this and passed it many years ago". :)


Well for me, school wouldn't be so bad. I basically coasted through school and got just enough GCSEs (without really trying) to get into College.

College was similar (though I actually did quite well)

But then came Uni - Difficult due to lack of motivation (not lack of ability) and I really really didn't want the shame of failing. So I did just enough to pass, but it wasn't easy (again - no motivation)

[Autolycus]

Do you believe in love? The kind that lasts forever? It is not a very interesting question.

[Lobsang]

Do you believe in love? The kind that lasts forever? It is not a very interesting question.

It's a good question.

I do believe in Love that lasts forever. I just wish I was in it with someone.

[The Tao's Revenge]

Do you believe in love? The kind that lasts forever? It is not a very interesting question.

I say it is. Is there a bond that can hold people through what ever life throws at them?

The nihilist in me says no, not even protons are stable forever, but I'd like to believe. I think the belief in love is part of the human experience. The thing of it is though is it isn't the love that's unstable. It's human frailties that are.

Suspicion, selfishness, ect. are natural human traits.

What makes love work is when both parties love, and respect each other, and can communicate when something isn't right and deal with it together. That keeps it stable. Absent any of those elements and it'll either fall apart or become dysfunctional.

At least that's my experience on it.



As for "in love". That fuzzy warm euphoria you get from the person you're "in love" with. That's endorphins, or dopamine or something. I forget what. It's some chemical your brain releases to addict you to the person. It's what causes alot of the nastiness that gets pinned on love. It can make that person more a drug and less a person. It's what makes people treat each other like property.

It's a magic feeling, but it's a drug and drugs are meh.


The kind of love I want to believe in is more pure. It's a connection of trust and openness. Of happiness in sharing the world and life. Of closeness and togetherness when the world isn't so happy.

[An Arky]

I am in love, the kind that lasts forever. It happened at random, when I was least expecting it. We've been together for 19 years and I still look forward to our daily time together; after we put the kids to bed of course, although it's fun smooching and making them go "ewwwww!" :)

Sometimes I wish I could hit the lottery, but a little voice inside me says "you already have". That's what it's like for me.

[LouisB]

It gets mocked behind its back for being a slut. ;)I've always liked sluts and I've fallen in love with many of them.