Is love a real emotion or is it just a socially constructed concept for "like"? -

[Wildchild]

I don't believe love is a real emotion because it's used interchangeably with the word "like" and I don't believe it exists as a separate emotion because I have never experienced it and believe it's made up.

What do you think on this topic?

 

[Squealer]

 

[Stress Sigh]

It had to be done.

 

[Hyperion]

 

[AnOminous]

This was what I would have posted.

 

[CatParty]

 

[GolgoXIII]

This

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I don't believe love is a real emotion because it's used interchangeably with the word "like" and I don't believe it exists as a separate emotion because I have never experienced it and believe it's made up.

What do you think on this topic?

I think that love and like are both social constructs that refer to neurological states

 

[Billy of Hills]

The only true love is between a man and his bodypillow

 

[Cave]

I think love is real.

I've seen and met folks that genuinely love other people.

People that don't include their family or friends.

 

[Fat Cat Represent]

It's like I'm actually on TvTropes in here

 

[Cave]

 

[Fat Cat Represent]

The only true love is between a man and his bodypillow

Baka Gaijin, it's called Daimakura desu.

 

[le fishe]

no it's made up by the jews

 

[Sped Xing]

Real answer: liking and loving are two different things, and generally people mistake lust for both.

EDIT: Oh Jesus, 2016?

 

[Strange Wilderness]

 

[Purin Chan]

This

Anyone who unironically took Rick 100% seriously when he said this is dumb.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I don't think it's real

 

[horrorfan89]

"Only humans could make up such an inspid emotion as love."

Agent smith from the matrix (I forget which one) the real hero of the series.

 

[basil marceaux.DOTCOM]

Love is absolutely a real thing.

When you just find that one person in your life you can't stop thinking about. When you want to know them and every facet of who they are, were, both physically and mentally, and when you never want to be away from them, or can't stomach the thought of it.

When that person becomes your other half, truly, where you're incomplete without them, those feelings are least the start of feelings of love. It goes so much deeper from there too, and there is no better feeling than when you feel like that, and the other party shares in your same passion; to be loved back. That combination, that potent powerful combination built into us all, that pulls us all together, that is close to what I could actually define as 'love'.


It's true I feel like the word is tossed out far too loosely and hastily these days, so the concept of what it really means has been either cheapened or forgotten, but when you really find it and it's a nice slow burn, there is no better feeling when all that is reciprocated back at you. Everything makes sense for the first time in your life.