What is love?

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"Oh baby, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more"

The other side of Love. Makes you vulnerable. Can be an intense feeling, like being on a continuous high... however if that person decides they don’t love you, or wants to leave you... it can turn into the most appalling low.

I am not always sure myself but from my understanding or at least trying to understand is a strong liking and emotional connection for another, followed by compassion and companionship.

Hmmm... I think that's enough of the songs with what is love in them.
Not exactly helping the OP here.
Besides he's asking the right question but not the right wording...
He should be asking "I want to know what love is... I want you to show me."

It's where you care for somebody honestly more than you care about yourself and you would literally do anything for them... When they hurt you hurt as well and when they aren't with you it feels like a piece of you is missing... It's something that you also don't fully recognize until it's over...

^ nicely said

except one can recognize it in progress ... that little difference is more a life experience thing.

When you love someone, it should just make you ... happy. Not giddy, fireworks (although initial lust can do that), but calm and steady ... trusting. Like your world despite all the crap in it feels right.

And love takes you outside of yourself, because now someone else's needs and happiness matter to you at least as much as your own. That factor is there when you love a spouse, a child, or even a very good friend - their needs and their happiness MATTER to you.

Love doesn't have to be romantic, it just has to have that quality of trusting and caring.

Love is a broad word describing many similar emotions that fall into the category of an attachment to something. When you "love" something you want to have it and be around it.

Romantic love is when you experience strong waves of contentment and euphoria when around someone (often who you are sexually attracted to), and crushing longing and loneliness when they are away, like being on a drug. Love creates a strong need for attachment and a desire to protect and preserve that which is loved. Love evolved so that our genes could continue to reproduce.

Other forms of love such as platonic love between friends or love for a video game are feelings of attachment, but often not as strong. For instance, if a video game or a friend is no longer fun, you may lose interest in them after a while. However, two people in love may have no fun together but remain together entirely out of love.

Love is love.
We do not know what it is.
I figure it is a pre-existing entity, good-disease, and/or such.
God cannot make anything evil, so He did not and cannot create hatred.
Hatred cannot exist without an opposite.
Satan cannot create; therefore,
love is love,
comprised of nothing but itself.
Chemical reactions associated with love are the physical counterparts.
Plain and not simple or comprehendable at all.

I have a theory that love is a manifestation of the Quantum Entanglement.

Atoms in certain parts of our brain become entangled with atoms in the partner's brain and they become one.

Love grows as more and more atoms become entangled; or they can detangle.

The key word in MisterSpock's statement was SOME. While many autistics feel emotion strongly a fair number like me really don't feel them very much at all. I honestly don't know what love is. I understand the concept but as to what it actually feels like - I haven't a clue.