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What is love to you?

A women recently asked me this question and I frankly don’t know how to respond.

For me it's simply the ranking of someone else's health and happiness above my own.

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else." -attributed to George Bernard Shaw

Wanting to embrace the intense infatuation hormones my brain is pumping out when meeting a new person and deciding with them to form a stable romantic bond.

There are other complexities, but I guess for me that's the basic gist.

I find the question "What is love?" kinda vague because there are different types of love. Love for family, love for friends, love for a romantic partner, love for specif stuff, love of your job, love for fellow humans, ect. Most people use love in the sense of caring about something a lot &/or liking something a lot. I'll guess that your question is about romantic love DMA. I think in romantic love there is a difference between being in love & loving the person. Being in love is about infatuation, the giddiness you feel & the way you feel high around them or just thinking about em. Being in love is like the strong crush feeling. Loving your romantic partner is caring about them a lot, maybe caring about them just as much or even more than you care about yourself. Loving your partner is about doing what you can to support them & help them in what ways you can. It is possible & not that uncommon for people to feel in love & love their partner at the same time. I've felt both at the same time for a couple people. I still love one of them even thou we broke up & things didn't end on good terms. I really hope she's OK in life. I quit being in love with her thou around the time we broke up.

If a woman asks you that question, the woman is probably interested in you beyond friendship.

Great Observation! She is probably focusing on the "romantic partner" meaning of the term "love".

If it was me I would probably respond that love is two souls adrift in space and time that have decided to join together to become one, adding their uniques talents and gifts together to become stronger, and to face any adversity that life can throw their way and survive and thrive. It is also experiencing the true wonder of holding their own newborn child.

But you will have to figure your own answer.

That's really pretty eloquent.

I never felt so grossly unprepared for life as when we brought our newborn daughter home from the hospital!