how do you know when you really love someone?

I know when I accept their flaws like my own and take them in stride and love them more for it. When I miss them when I'm away... when I can't imagine anyone else I'd rather spend my days with. how bout you?

i know when: every dumb pop song or oldie i hear on the radio seems to speak to me with infinite wisdom; also, i imagine them dying, and what i would do at the funeral, how i would grieve- throwing myself on their grave and not eating or sleeping until i too wasted away, etc. that's how.

When my brain started inserting her into memories of events that happened before I met her.

when my brain starts inserting her into Simpson's episodes...

I really don't know what the answer is, but I think I know what the answer isn't. If it's anything having to do with romance, fluttering stomachs, unquenchable passion, missing them like crazy, or just any generally giddy, mushy feeling -- that's not the definition of love. It's part of love, for sure, but those things are just what we think love is when we're teenagers.

Maybe the best way to tell it's love is when you would die to save the other person's life without hesitation. That's a definition of love that covers all the spectrums: family, friends, and lovers. Like my grandmother used to joke, "I would face down a charging grizzly bear for you."

I wish I could tell you. Life's complex.

the pain you think will fade over time but it doesnt, it just becomes a dull ache.

When the first thing you think of in the morning is them and they are the last thing you think of at night.
When you get lonley after being apart for short periods of time.
When you can look past any of their little flaws and annoying habbits...

When you would rather die than be without them, and the thought of it makes your stomach churn, your chest tighten and your eyes sting and water.

When you start trying to resist the erasing process by hiding her in your most humiliating memory.

Awwwww how sweet

i think that when you stop wondering "is this love?" then you know

I once loved a girl so much that she changed how I perceived beautiful to be.
Altered the characteristics of what I considered attractive.
And if we'd have been on a sinking boat with one life jacket, I would have given it to her since I couldn't have lived with knowing I hadn't.

I don't think you can tell while it's happening - you can only know for sure when you're looking back on things.

I'll tell you when I find out.

love is forgetting about other women

when they make be feel like I am going to throw up on my feet.

I feel like that whenever I talk to an attractive woman.
Heck, I feel like that responding to your comment.

When you dont have to ask yourself.

They just won't get the fuck out of your head.

You just do

you love me, then.

when you know that even if you are together or not they will always be a part of your life

no matter what they do, where they go, or who they are with your feelings about them don't change

realizing that they are truly a best friend and will always continue to be one throughout your life

*Ahem*
And every pop song on the radio... is suddenly SPEAKING to me. Yeah, art imitates life, but life imitates TV...

love dosen't exist. it's just a chemical imbalance in the brain, like taking drugs. thats why it is so easy to feel in or out. trust me i know everything.

You just know. Like when his farts don't bother you, and even though you realize your sleep is jeopardized by the snoring, you still can't wait for them to be in bed, sleeping and snoring beside you.