How do we really know when we are in-love?

February 23, 2010 10:07pm CST
Love has many definitions may it be a verb or a noun. There are also countless examples of feelings felt by people who claim to have already felt it. I remember when I was younger my friends used to say, "When you feel the electricity and spark when your skins get in contact, you know you are in-love" and I would say, "How do you know you are already feeling it?" and they would say "When you have goosebumps, that's when." So I started to feel have the "goosebumps" and ended up thinking I was already in-love. And to be honest, I felt the thing for quite a lot of times... Funny it may seem but reality bites. Most people end up feeling frustrated for an ended relationship especially when they are "in-love" with their partners or at least they think they are. So when do we really know when we are in-love? I ask this question to every one for I believe that we all have our different thought and ideas about it and one can always learn from another person's experience. Tell us about it we are waiting for your story. :-)
5 responses
• United States
24 Feb 10
I think it's quite unexplainable. But as for me, when I'm in love, I find myself a better person and the world to be a better place. It's not that I lose track of reality, but I just get to have more capacity to understand. :)
• Philippines
24 Feb 10
i think this is when you could already see yourself happy living with that person for the rest of your life. it is not easy to tell the difference between being in love or just thinking that you are already in love. and there is a thin line that separates love from lust, one should know the thin line that separates the two.
@champan (513)
• Argentina
24 Feb 10
First of all. There are two different things that always appear to be similar but are really different between each other : Love and Obsession. You can really like a person ,you can be near that person, you can feel the electricity and the atraction when you re with that person , that you can feel both love or obsession. If you feel you want her to be yours, only yours, you really want to have her. and that kind of stuff , you re obsessed. But if you realize that the most important thing to you is her happiness (and you really mean it) doesnt matter if that also means not being with you. And you are still happy for her. Then you really love that person. (Of course thats the sad version of love haha.) Of course there are lots of stories of people that found real love, and they were made for each other ,and are still together... and all that stuff .
@anc457 (186)
• Thailand
24 Feb 10
some people don't realize yet 'til they break up. it's un explainable, you just feel it :-)
• India
24 Feb 10
Love is something where you feel and get to know that you cannot live without that person... it cannot be explained much clearly as its a very internal feeling..