We don't have a topic in here yet, so I decided to start out with a love topic.

Love... a simple word, but it has so much meaning. Does society overuse the word nowadays without considering the real meaning behind it?

Sure, there are many kinds of love, with different depths... but I'm talking about the love between a man and a woman, or a person with their significant other. I see and hear so many things from my friends that makes me wonder what their perception of love really is, and just how far it goes...

I want to get some replies going in here before I make my statement/view on it. :)

I'm not into the whole dating/boy thing. :P I like 'em, but I'm happilly 17 years single running. I dunno, from that perspective sometimes it is overused. Specially at younger ages [13 - 19ish] where they're still just 'dating' and messing around, stuff like that and they can go and say "I love him/her." Even though there's no guarantee you'll stay together, but that applies to being married as well. o.O; I just think people use it to soon, one month and they think they'll stay together forever.

I had a friend who was with her's for three years and they just broke up. ;_; It's sad too cause the guy was really nice and she had a new bf soon after.

And another friend of mine. >.< Woo boy, she goes around talking about how much she loves her b/f, but long story short, she was with a guy for a couple weeks, then another for a month, then this guy. And in the middle of their relationship she starts thinking that she wants the second guy more or just wants to kiss him. e.o And the dumb guy allowes her to kiss this guy if she'll still stay with him, and now they have an 'agreement' that they have to wear certain clothes and yada yada ya know that's not close to dating more or less love. If you have to agree on things like that and even want to kiss another guy between, but I never get into it because it's not my buisness.

The only time you can call it real love if if you're not gonna be going and wanting to be with anyone else or kissing anyone else in between. And to make it even MORE love it'd be marriage.

I dunno, I'm not good on love cause I never experienced anything close to it, but I like to think that's good. Cause a lot of people I know are having problems and suspicions and this and than I and when I try to give advice I stick to the simple things because of that. And some people say that because I had to experience I see it from a simple view so it helps them out or something like that. e.x;

But from what I've seen, I'm happy being away from it all thank you. XD Cause with what I've seen with friend, it arises suspision and anger if their other misses a phone call or something. x.x;

On the subject of breakups and rejections [<--has experience with the latter!], don't go into an endless state of depression or whatever, cause in a year, you'll wonder why you wasted all that time getting sad over it. @.@; And in the end it will have all been futile. And plus, if they don't like you, you can't change that, in order for a relationship to work more or less start, both parties have to want it.

And that's just my babble. XD

I've had a few relationships, but only one I can say I loved him as a "love"... We had/still have this connection where we can tell what the other is thinking and feeling, even when we're so far apart. It's nice, but it's very, very hard...

My first "official relationship", calling him a boyfriend was when I was 12. I never felt anything other than just being content around him. My instinct turned out for the better, despite a few bad things that happened within the two years we were together... We agreed to call the girlfriend/boyfriend thing quits when he confessed to me he was gay. Now 4 years later we're really good friends and tell each other everything. I "love" him like a brother. ^_^

But I see so many people from the early teens to even "adult" years (though age is just a number... you can be thirty and still unresponsible) have suicidal thoughts from a simple rejection. If this applies to anyone here, I sincerely apologize, and I mean no harm... it's just my opinion.

It just makes me wonder what society would really do if faced with the real thing, then having to "sink or swim".

Lord knows I don't know everything about relationships, but I know enough and I'm not going to get into another one (unless it's my "twin" as I call him) for years to come. Some people think I'm lesbian because of it, but I don't care...

Now this is an interesting ?'n

However I don't think I'm gonna touch this one :lol:

Unless you really want to know what I think.

TD

I really wanna know what you think. Please, do post... :)

I still haven't posted my real thoughts on "love" yet... I was waiting for more replies... ^_^;