WHAT IS LOVE?
Love is a strong and pleasant emotion you feel towards someone. Loving someone isn’t the same as being in love with them.
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Being in love is the way you might feel at the start of a relationship, when you only see the positive things about the other person and you walk around with your head in the clouds. The feeling can be so intense it actually hurts – especially of course if the person doesn’t feel the same way about you.
Over time this in-love feeling changes, and you have a deeper, steadier, tender, caring feeling for the other person – you love them.
To round it up, love develops in different stages. First comes the passion of sexual attraction, then the dreamy, overwhelming in-love stage, and finally the deeper attachment that develops over time and can last for years or a lifetime.
