Is there really love?

[Dayanara]

Is there really such thing as love...or is all just physical lust in the end?

 

[indyweasel]

all of the above..

some people I just lust after..

some people I just love...

There are some that I both love and lust after...

Sorry I couldnt clear that up.

 

[GuyJD]

A little of the first and alot of the second.

 

[Dayanara]

yes....but is it really love and not lust?

 

[GuyJD]

yes....but is it really love and not lust?

It all depends on the person.

 

[LittleRedDevil]

A resounding yes...

yes there is such a thing as love. No, it wasn't clouded by lust.

 

[Dayanara]

I am just so confused

 

[GuyJD]

In some case, if the relationship begins with sex during the early stage or too much sex, it may develope more into lust. If love is developed before the sex, then it could be love.
This is why I say that it depends on the person.

 

[Dayanara]

*sigh*

I guess so

 

[Celestiale]

Actually....I think that the lust goes away eventually, and if there's no love to back that up, then there's nothing.

Love is what keeps you there...
Love is what holds you true...

mmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Darowyn]

If you don't know, it hasn't happened yet, Love that is.
Cheers!

 

[Dayanara]

If you don't know, it hasn't happened yet, Love that is.
Cheers!

oh I know its happened on my part.....just wondering if any of the guys I have known have ever felt it.....or was it just lust

 

[Pyper]

There are many cultures that don't have a concept of romantic love. In fact, romantic love is a fairly recent invention, starting at, oh I believe around the late 17th century in Europe. Thus I believe love is a cultural construction, but that doesn't mean it can't exist.

 

[lavender]

 

[Dayanara]

sometimes I think love was just made up my hallmark to get more money.......

 

[Mistress]

I think that there is love, I also feel that love can go into lust at some point.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Just imagine this person you're with... at 80. Nice and wrinkly, with grey hair. Maybe a bunch of screaming kids running around the house.

Still want to stay with them? Then, you're probably in love.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

I believe in it. It is certainly present with my children without any lust. It is caring so much for a person that your life could not be the same without them in it. Lust and love in a relationship is perfect. The romantic that I am is a true believer in love. I know many that have relationships built on it.

 

[Renegade]

Is there really such thing as love...or is all just physical lust in the end?

I believe that there really is love that isn't just physical lust. Because I've felt that for someone for awhile now.

 

[Texan]

There are many cultures that don't have a concept of romantic love. In fact, romantic love is a fairly recent invention, starting at, oh I believe around the late 17th century in Europe. Thus I believe love is a cultural construction, but that doesn't mean it can't exist.

Romantic love isn't a new idea at all.... read Song of Songs(Solomon) which was written around 3000 years ago. I quote from the first three verses of the first chapter....

SS 1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth--
for your love is more delightful than wine.

SS 1:3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
your name is like perfume poured out.
No wonder the maidens love you!

SS 1:4 Take me away with you--let us hurry!
Let the king bring me into his chambers.
We rejoice and delight in you;
we will praise your love more than wine.

 

[Never]

Love is actually first felt between an infant and a mother (or father) and does not depend on lust.

 

[Pyper]

Well, when I said it was a recent concept, I was referring to it being a recent concept for Europe.

This Song of Songs? Where is it from? And who is speaking to whom?

 

[Texan]

new or old... it exists

The Song of Songs is a book in the Bible, also called the Song of Solomon in the King James version. The book is written as a poem and the author is not known for certain. The "king" in the book is probably the Israelite King Solomon. The maiden in the book is not known, but Solomon had hundreds of wives and concubines... so it could have been any of them.

There are many "fundamentalist Christians" who try to rationalize this book as being some kind of poem that represents the love between the Jews and Jehovah, but in reality, it's just a GREAT love poem.

 

[Dayanara]

Love is actually first felt between an infant and a mother (or father) and does not depend on lust.

I like that point Never, its quite true...