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What is love? Is is the passion you have towards someone or something? Or is it simply just an everyday word that people use. Is there a way one can know what love actually really is? As if you have to actually experience it to know. People believe that there are huge expectations to live up to to love someone but there actually isn't. There's things in life that we have to ask ourselves and figure out to know what they really are or mean, and I feel as if the broad topic of love is. Your parents tell you at the very beginning when you first start dating that "There are plenty fish in the sea!" That you'll eventually find that right guy and you'll end up marrying him. From past experience I couldn't tell you what love actually is, but I can tell you that I know some stages of it. Being in a relationship and telling you love someone is a big step. Being in love means you would do anything and everything for that one person. Unconditionally love them through everything in their life. Be there for them 100% of the time and make them happy 100% of the time as well. Spending money and buying them things is one thing but money can't buy happiness, loving someone with your heart can. If you are truly meant to be, things will work itself out and it'll happen. I know from past experience that if you really want something in life you have to work for it but you can't force things to happen and get the outcome you want. If you truly love someone and they love you, you would do anything to make it work. You would keep fighting for each other and go to the ends of the earth for each other to be together. If that doesn't work then you have to realize that you not being together is the best for each other and being happy in the end is better. Something that is going to help both people out in the long run is what you want. Whether that means you are together or your break up. I see it though that if you really, really love someone you will do anything and everything to keep them in your life. Another thing about love is you could love an object. For example if a child has a stuffed animal that they grew up with their whole life, they could grow an attachment to that specific one; not wanting to let it go or give it away. Children have very creative imaginations and just like thinking that they have an imaginary friend they could believe that they have true feelings and they are a real person. They form that attachment to it and when they're parents finally say it's time to part for it they have an emotional breakdown because they love that stuffed animal and feel like they can't ever let it go. They have convinced themselves that it has feelings too and that the two of them can't be seperated from one another. I know that my friend still has a baby blanket she sleeps with and she's 19. Her parents keep saying she's getting too old for it but she can't give it up because she's grown up with it and grown an attachment to that certain object that she just can't let go of. It's something that is apart of her everyday life now and if it's not there then something would be missing People always look at the word love and expect it to be something special. Well in their case it is, but if you think about it sometimes love can also be bad. It's almost like you "falling in love" with a person but they don't like you at all, then that just turns what we call it "clingy and overly attached" these days. Love isn't always good. It can trigger you to do certain things that you probably shouldn't do. For instance, if you're dating someone and you tell them that you love them from the beginning the other person could feel as if it is clingy and they may not end up liking you anymore because it takes time to learn how to love someone. What happens if you just show up to their house without telling them and expect to hangout? That could also come off as clingy and desperate. So not only can love be good but it can be bad too. Love is one of those things that teaches you different things in life and how to keep living your life whether you love someone or something. Knowing that there is something or someone out there for you to end up loving as much as you want. People believe that there are huge expectations to live up to to love someone but there actually isn't. You just have to want to love someone as much as they love you. Give the equal affect back and don't let anyone affect your relationship, if you really, truly love someone then show them. Don't try to prove to anyone else that you love that person unconditionally because the only person that should matter to you is your family and the person you are in love with.