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What is Love?

We spend so long assessing the people in our lives and our feelings, trying to figure out if it's the real thing. I'm going to attempt to explain what it feel's like, from my point of view.

By Sierra IPublished 7 years ago 3 min read
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It's the age-old, timeless question: What is love? This is a difficult question to answer, not because it's an emotion, but because everyone experience's it differently. I have gone around and asked many people and have noticed some similarities, however, so I'd like to attempt to answer this question using my own, and some other's experiences and the similarities included.

1. They Are Your Home

I've noticed that a lot of people refer to their significant other as their "home." I guess this is where the phrase "Home is where the heart is" stems from. They give you a feeling of security. Think about how you feel walking into your home after a long day at work and you are just dead-exhausted. You feel comforted, secure, relaxed, and content. This is how love feels. Wherever you are, your partner is your access to comfort, security, and happy thoughts.

2. The Pull

Most people, if not all, have heard the phrase "your kisses give me butterflies." Surprisingly, this isn't what true love's kiss seems to feel like at all. When you kiss someone that you truly love, you feel a pull. It goes from your stomach, to your toes, and then all the way back up into your throat, where it stays until the kiss is over. You may get an ache like you want to cry because the moment is so sweet and perfectly placed.

3. The Need to Be Open

I've noticed that people are more willing to be open and honest with someone they feel a true "love connection" with. They are more willing to trust this person, divulge personal information, and sincerely want to know personal things about that person.

4. Attention to Detail

People are more likely to pay attention to small things when it comes to someone that they love. You may not pass someone on the street and notice the way that they are playing with their hands like they're nervous. However, if someone that you love is doing this, you will more than likely notice and know what it means.

5. Your Interest Will Be Peaked

I don't mean initially. I mean, when your significant other works at a factory and comes home, covered in dirt every day and tells you about the problem's he had with his machine, you actually listen. You know as well as I do, if anyone else told you about this you would be half listening, half bored out of your mind, and the rest wouldn't even be comprehended or understood. But when your love talks about it, you pay extra attention to make sure you understand, especially with things that they will most likely talk about often.

6. You have "Eye-Language"

A lot of people I have talked to, and this definitely applies to me and my love, have a sort of "eye-language." This means that you can basically have whole conversations. Now, this is the most common, but I've heard of other ones too, such as body-language, facial expressions, and types of '"code words."

Conclusion

Everyone feels love differently, but with all the commonalities among these six things, I'd hesitate to say that if you feel this way about your partner, it may mean that you guys truly do love each other.

Love takes a lot of effort and a lot of work, but if it feels natural and is just too easy, you'll take more time to make it work. You'll put more effort into it. If it isn't worth losing, then you won't lose it.

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About the Creator

Sierra I

FT mom, writer, and 'doer'. Coffee obsessed and science-based, I thoroughly enjoy broadening people's horizons and mental processes through the written word.

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