Do you love completely or do you hold back a little ?

I give 100% in love. Why go through life half a$$ed. If you never love fully then you can never know what it feels like to be loved fully either. I just don't see a reason why you shouldn't give it your all. Life is full of disappointments. If you get hurt, pick yourself up and go on with life. There'll be someone else who will put just as much effort into love as you do.

When I love, I dont hold back. I give my all in the relationship. I agree with cyberfluf as in the beginning, its not necessary to 'tell all' until its appropriate. If they ask, Im honest though, but I like the saying, 'a time and place for everything' so if its too soon to tell certain information, I wait till the time is right but again, if they ask, Im honest. Theres no reason to 'beat around the bush' or hold back if theres a good connection and attraction between the two people. I believe in being open and honest and think both partners should be the same with that, share with each other and communicate.

I don't hold back. It doesn't matter if it will only last a day.The best way to describe it is in this quote from the movie Impromtu. " I am not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love. That is all.But I love strongly, exclusively, and steadfastly."

i love completely, if anything too much. if u ar going to love someone i think u should give your all.

If everyone is holding back and no one gives their all to a relationship then what is the quality of the relationship anyway? I think the trick is to go slow and be sure the other person is someone you want to give it all up for or not. If you have to have a safety net or defense mechanism then there is something wrong.

I like to give my all. For a number of reasons - a relationship will only get through the toughest times (and there are bound to be tough times) if people love with all their hearts, otherwise there will be a little voice inside saying "it's okay to walk away". Other reasons are selfish - I am not sure I could enjoy a relationship to its full potential if I did not love without holding back

I don't hold anything back - I like to love completely. I do that because that's the way I like to be loved. :-)

Somehow it seems as if holding back would prevent a truly committed relationship. What is in me is exactly what anyone I love will get, whether I's a romantic relationsip, a friendship, whatever. If I can't giv all, I can't expect to get all, and I really think all is the only way.

well i have never hidden back. I believe you need to give it your 100 percent always. There is no point in holding back or being someone you are not, yes that could be the cause of failier sometime or the other, although i regret at times being so tranparent and obvious.

I use to hold back in relationships, as I feared I would get hurt. I do not do that in my current relationship, and I suppose there could be a circumstance that would attempt to have me do so, but since I have no intention of ever moving on if all went bad, I am not sure it would happen with me. This is our tenth year together, though we are not married, there is not much of a difference in our eyes or how others see us. I have the mindset that this relationship will be forever. This will be my last one, regardless. I do always have a fear that someday he will grow weary of me, but that is not because of something he has done, but more of the opinions I have of myself. I try to keep it form being a self fulfilling prophecy by not focusing on it much.

I give my all each and every day. I've know my fiance for almost 17 years...(long story) and now we're finally together for good. I can't wait to marry him and start my life with him. He gives his all to me and our 5 kids (1 is his, 4 are mine) every single day as well....all while serving as a drill sergeant in the Army. I never have to ask him to help me...when he can, he does all on his own. He knows what I need and I know what he needs because we communicate. We're 100% open and honest with each other. I've had several relationships in the past that didn't work out for one reason or another. I honestly believe that my fiance and I were meant to be together. But those relationships that didn't work out were stepping stones...learning experiences. And even though I've been in love before and been hurt, I always gave my all in each relationship because each one was different. I don't think that past bad experiences should influence how we treat new ones. :-) I do my best to learn from the past, learn from my mistakes and others mistakes, remember the good times I've had (even if they didn't end well) and move on. Because life is meant to be lived. :-)

well i belive in giving 100% in love, always nutures love relationship. Irresponsibility towards your loved one is not a real love. Meaning to love means to provide extraordinary, so its not everyone's cheese.

I have to say that I have held back in a relationship before but when I met my husband that all changed. He is the most amazing person that I have ever met, he is kind, sweet, generous, loving, good looking and funny. I think that it is a shame that we hold back some of ourselves but like you said I think it is a defence against being hurt. I think that holding ourselves back, can actually hurt a relationship more than help you. If your partner feels like you are holding back, they too might do the same and then your relationship will never reach it's full potential. I think that it is very important to be open and honest with your partner or else you doom your relationship to failure.

Sometimes I'm a little bit scared to love too much. I don't want to be hurt. I am super sensitive and do not want to have a broken heart. So far I haven't. Just be kind and nice to the one's you love.

i think i love completely... i know it is gonna hurt much if it doesnt work out but it is always worth it..

usually at the start of relationship..im not giving all my love..im trying to hold as much for myself so that if we decided to part ways..i am not that lost..but once we reach 6 months..im starting to let go of myself slowly..i want to make my partner feel how much he means to me..im not holding back anymore because we already passed the crucial stage of our relationship..

I am not one to hold back in everything that I do. I either go all the way or not go at all. It's just me. Cheers!!

hi ronnyb, i believe if you love someone you must give full 100%.

I don't know how you can hold bback a little when you are really into a realtionship. I think when you really love one person, you just think of how to do good stuff and make he/she happy, if you "can" hold back a little, that means that person is not that important to you and LOVE is not actually existed so get rid of that relationship. That's what I think.

I always love completely and in my pass and I always got hurt really badly and I thought that holding back was the best way to go just in see I got hurt it wouldn't hurt to bad. My mother us to tell me all the time never show your boyfriends you love them to much because they will act like they will become arrogant because they know you really care about them. However, I never followed that advise because I felt that if you love someone you should show them that you do, because if you hold back and the person ever really know how you feel they may leave you because they thought that you didn't love them with all your heart. I do think that holding back is a type of defense mechanism and could cause their relationships to fail most of thee time.