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Originally Posted by CleverlyDisguised
Love is an act, not a feeling. People think sentiment, feelings, excitement, OCD are love.
Love isnt any of those.
Love is shown in acts, by making a cup of tea for someone, giving them a hand if they fall down. There is nofeeling involved in doing these acts.
Anybody can learn to do these thingsfor other people, for critters. Even Psychopaths can do acts of love.
That is my version of love. There is no affective response or motive, these things need doing, I do them.
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exactly the difference of between a sociopath and someone else. you said love is
shown by acts. Love is based on feeling for most. And just because someone shows loving acts, doesn't mean they love you. And people mistaking sentiment and excitement for love is why I think most people don't get to experience the real thing. Why I think it goes deeper and is so complex. Simplified, a mix of conscience decision, emotion, and sacrifice. Most people have no idea what it is because they only think of it as superficial feelings and base it on what they see in new couples who are caught up in lust, excitement, pheromones, and euphoria. People see a couple like that and think that's what to expect with love. Completely different.