How would you describe love?

[Winchester]

[Spider]

[exploited]

One night, I was about to take a line off a strippers ass, and I thought, no, don't.

So I took it off her tits instead.

That's when I knew it was love.

Then the bar closed, my heart got broken, and I've been a husk of my former self ever since.

[Kane]

[exploited]

Fine. I dunno how to describe love but I can tell you when I realized I was afflicted.

I was thinking about taking a vacation in a years time when I realized I had just automatically assumed Jess would be going with me. I didn't even think "I wonder if Jess would go," I just started planning under the assumption she would be there. It wasn't long before I noticed this assumption in just about everything. You stop reflexively thinking about I, and start reflexively thinking about her and I.

I stopped accepting myself. I used to be the final authority on how I would perceive myself... now she is. When you are in love, all of a sudden, what another person thinks of you isn't just important, it becomes literally everything. It wasn't enough to be a skinny alien body... I needed to be a clean, well dressed, successful skinny alien body. These things I never cared about, but I had to start because I didn't want to make her look bad. Love makes you want to improve yourself.

Finally, love is very much a chemical addiction. Recognize the signs. She goes out for a girls night, you fret for hours over her safety. You don't see her for a couple days, you become irritable and melancholy. You find out someone may be threatening your supply, you go nuclear before your rational mind can assert control.

Maybe not that much wisdom there, but those are the things I noticed.

[NAB]

The first time you get to see your young child after being away for awhile. That feeling........

[Precocity]

I guess everyone has their own definition of love. Looking back on my life I would have to say these things proved to me that I loved someone.

Taking the time to help them even at the expense of my own security, job or whatever.

Feeling sympathy for them being upset even if their emotion isn't justified.

Making the future impact a low priority to satisfy their current needs.

Thinking about them often even to the point that it interferes with current things I really need to focus on at the moment.

Getting mad at them when they get mad at me.

Saying I'm sorry even when I did nothing wrong.

Giving in to their wants even when I know it's not wise to do.

[Kane]

Mine's bettah.

[Homer]

love is a woman who agrees to swallow.

but srs. I think the definition of love has changed throughout history and cultures; it is, after all, an abstract concept created by humans.

[Homer]