True love is caring for the other more than you care for yourself.
The way I feel about my daughter. The willingness to walk through fire for another person to keep them safe.
Love is a wonderful feeling. I love my girls. I love my animals. I have love to share with a life partner.
oh no....true love is self love otherwise you really have nothing to offer.
My definition of "True Love". Love is a very simple word that is very complex in meaning. Love consists of honesty, respect, desire, caring, and patients. Love has a different meaning for every individual.
A question for poets and philosophers so should be best answered with a poem:
"What is True Love? If love is an action, Where does it start? If love is a feeling, Does it come from the heart? If love is a promise, What does it really mean? Without action, Can it truly be seen? If love is in the eye, Can we envision its splendor? If love is in the voice, Can we hear it soft and tender? If love can be bought, What is its true price? Will it have endurance, And the quality to entice? If love is in the heart, Is it a flame within? If love is a game, Is there something to win? If love is a person, Who may it be? He that acts from the heart, And does it for free". - Bjørn O. Wastvedt, 2017
I think, true love is that, between two persons which uphold each other to grow, to develop, to achieve their dreams and be useful for community, one place full of respect, love, full of confidence, truthfulness full of communication, full of harmony.. True love will not choose to hurt you.
When we truly love someone even our children, we put their NEEDS above our own. It is not an emotion but a conscious choice we make to be committed to their well being and never ever walk away from them. I truly love my daughter but I felt hatred towards her sometimes, same thing with some of my siblings. Sometimes it is very painful to love them but nothing can ever make me walk away from them permanently. I kicked my daughter out once (at age eighteen) and moved out of my home twice so a sibling could stay there and we could maintain a relationship that did not include taking advantage of me on a daily basis.
Love is letting them be and setting boundaries for ourselves but it allows the other person their own choices and empowers the other person. We can say we love someone but if we cannot live without them then who is it we are "loving"? Ourselves or them? They say "If you love something set it free, if it comes back to you it is yours, if not it never was." I say even if it comes back it is not yours, it is it's own free will bringing it back not ownership or control. Let them go, let them go and let them go again and when and if they do come back be grateful they chose you to return to. That to me is love.
I don't know about the "true" part. The most intense feeling of love I have is for my grandchildren. I feel like all the love I felt for my children, my parents and grandparents have rolled up into an enormous ball of love for my grandchildren. I see bits of all of my loved ones represented in the grandbabies, and the affection is overwhelming. For other, non-related people, I fear we really only love a reflection of ourselves. We want someone with the same values and beliefs, who laughs at the same things and chases the same goals. Alternately, I find I dislike people more who have the same flaws I perceive in myself.
I remember reading about George Michael and his relationship with the love of his life, who died prematurely. George Michael said it was the first time he ever loved anyone selflessly. He wrote 'Jesus To A Child' for him.
Putting the needs of another above your own. You quickly find reasons to withdraw it. ?