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sereneDay 05 – Your definition of love, in great detail
I'm not being avoidant when I say I don't have one. I have ideas about what love means to me, but whenever I've given some kind of definition a try, I've decided that I'm okay with an "I know it when I see it" approach to this particular question, although I don't mind geeking about it.
Some things I think about love:
Love isn't enough to make a relationship on.
The kind of love I feel toward general humanity (the kindpiranha calls "Hare Krishna love") is different in both intensity and quality from the love I have for actual people.
For me, New Relationship Energy goes away; love doesn't go with it, but intensity does. This is a bug, not a feature, to me, but it's probably best for my productivity and calm.
I have been known to say "I love you" too soon, before I was really able to tell the difference between NRE and love, or for other suboptimal reasons. But I don't really regret it, because I do love just about everyone, to varying degrees, and I'd rather love too much than too little.
I'm not being avoidant when I say I don't have one. I have ideas about what love means to me, but whenever I've given some kind of definition a try, I've decided that I'm okay with an "I know it when I see it" approach to this particular question, although I don't mind geeking about it.
Some things I think about love:
Love isn't enough to make a relationship on.
The kind of love I feel toward general humanity (the kind
piranha calls "Hare Krishna love") is different in both intensity and quality from the love I have for actual people.For me, New Relationship Energy goes away; love doesn't go with it, but intensity does. This is a bug, not a feature, to me, but it's probably best for my productivity and calm.
I have been known to say "I love you" too soon, before I was really able to tell the difference between NRE and love, or for other suboptimal reasons. But I don't really regret it, because I do love just about everyone, to varying degrees, and I'd rather love too much than too little.