How many people do you really love?

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I will just have to admit there is no one that I really love and I do not think it is possible for me to love.

Sid loves everybody, as long as they're not ignorant, or hurtful. :O)

My family and probably my friends.

There are peoe I deeply care about, but for the most part, I wouldn't attach the word love or friend to the feeling or person.

I love all of mankind, as an ideal concept.

I do not waste my love on individual specimen.

I love no one. Sorry, but I can't think of one person in the world who, upon death, would make me very sad.

I love my partner. That's it.

I love everyone til I get to know them.

Define love...

Is it for example when you don't want to lose a friend??

For me love is when I feel for the person... (not like kissing and stuff)..
But more like.. yeah... you know..

There are 1 maybe 2 humans, my mom and maybe my littlebrother...
And Our dog!.. he's the best!...

I have two friends, and they are someone that I care about... Like, I don't wanna lose them...

I don't hate anybody. I may disapprove of the actions of some people, but I don't hate anyone.

Only my closest family, that counts about eight. But then agan, I'm willing to go to hell and back to prevent anything bad from happening to them. They can do whatever to me, I still don't care. I still **** 'em. Just don't like the word.

Hey, thought she/he asked about ppl. I also have a dog, value him just like my closest family. No one seems to understand me better, so maybe he's on top of the list.

define 'really'

define 'to love'
(apart from syntactical functionality, the verb might not be quite the same as the noun)


first response to OP: NONE

voice Randy Newman:
I don't know what love is, I don't know what love is..; THEY know what love is

however: i am so verbose and verbosely confident that i have always claimed
that i - as opposed to all great thinkers & writers alltimes allwheres -
would be capable of defining what love is -

on the proviso that i had once actually physically experienced that feeling they call love

alexithymia [lit.: no words for feelings] is what set me on the course to auti-selfdiscovery:
any sort of problem in relating verbally [mentally/psychologically-aware]
with what the body 'feels'
[it might be a problem to do with one's proprioceptive sense (6th sense)]
[i prefer to think of it as related with autistic monotrack thought, and as such:
essentially related to the core problem of autism:
lack of self, which must result from a lack of 'binding', i.e. multitracking thought processing

i also (off topic) believe that all of this can be so easily 'translated' in terminology
of mirror neurons; i would say that mirror neurons are the cause&result of multitracking thought:
i would say that 'multitracking' would be what is mirroring
by mirroring, one would experience the separate realities of monosensed perception in communion

and that would be essential in overcoming alexithymia

i would also hazard to guess that this 'communing' constitutes love
non-socially: for self
socially: when these mirroring processes 'agree', harmonize, with those of ONE other (human) being

that would allow for differentiating between love and sex:
sex in itself would involve less mirroring processes, certainly in the social respect

'true' love could then be 'measured' in the larger amount, variety and depth of mirroring processing

back to alexithymia: eg (?):
that pit in my stomach - it may have taken me fifty years to identify it as 'fear' (or anxiety)
and not 'hunger' - which has a slightly different position (slightly more central and deeper)
and a slightly different 'texture of feeling'
(hunger is slightly more 'acute', in that anxiety has a duller feel - it's a shade of difference though)

more references:

The Collectors, What Love (Suite) (1968): "love is masculine violence"

[great album] (in context, i would say: love is precisely NOT male violence, male lust is)

gosh, had one more, maybe it will get back to me

If we are counting dogs, then 3.

If not, 0.

Actually,he did not, so you just scored 0. Have no family, or do they treat you bad?

Mo

What a depressing topic..... looking at the answers that is....