# What is LOVE?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-love/219425>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 17, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-love/219425 "2003-12-17T00:14:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-love/219425/21 "2003-12-17T14:16:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by hypnoboth \*  
> \*\*You realize whole books have been written on this, don’t you? \*\*

Not just books, this makes up 50% of all the songs ever written.

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**Author:** ![comma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@comma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/comma)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-love/219425/22 "2003-12-17T19:12:50Z")

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True. And the other 50% are about losing it.

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**Author:** ![Stover9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stover9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stover9)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-love/219425/23 "2003-12-17T19:30:19Z")

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when it’s unconditional…IMO

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**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-love/219425/24 "2003-12-17T20:25:43Z")

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All you need is love…

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’m gonna get smacked for this but I _love_ it.

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