[JustLikeHeaven]

• What IS 'love'?

How do you know if you are receiving it?
How do you give it?

• How do you care about other people when you only can express negative emotions?

I don't know if I explained this very well or if there IS a way to know 'love'.

[yellowted]

love is a very difficult emotion, as it is not always as simple as love or hate, you can love someone but hate what theyare doing, e.g if you have a young child, you will usually love them, but on occasion may hate the temper tantrum they are having. just cos you hate the tantrum, does not mean you hate the child or you may love the roast you had for christmas lunch, but hate the sprouts on it.
love is in my opinion a feeling you get like a tickle inside when you see someone you care about a lot or who you can't imagine life being without.
you know you are receiving love when you feel totally safe and content
you can show love by giving hugs or lip kisses, by doing nice things for the person without being asked, by sharing good times together and the most important way is to make the person feel safe and content by doing things they like, you need to think about how the person feels and make them happy.

[Thunder Bow]

Negititive Emotions is a way of protectiong one self when you are feeling volurenable. Expressing love makes one more volurenable.

What IS 'love'?

i would say an emotion like no other- like, you are not just wanted, but someone actually lives for you being around, care about you deeply, will do anything for you, worry about you when you're not around, constantly thinks about you, etc etc

How do you know if you are receiving it?

as yellowted said, you feel safe, and cared about, you feel their's meaning

How do you give it?

kisses, hugs, good deeds, words " i love you", nice gifts (flowers, chocolate etc)

Originally Posted by JustLikeHeaven

• What IS 'love'?

How do you know if you are receiving it?
How do you give it?

• How do you care about other people when you only can express negative emotions?

I don't know if I explained this very well or if there IS a way to know 'love'.

Well, true love is a choice-not a feeling. The feeling is merely a small part of what real love is. How do you know if you're receiving it? I think that's something that only you can tell. If you decided to share the deepest and most fragile parts of your heart with your partner I think that would be the beginning of letting that person love you. Then your partner would follow through by entrusting his/her heart with you. You would know after a while after knowing that he/she will not hurt you in any way possible.

In order to show that you truly love another person you must show that you trust that person. To love someone is to give that person the ultimate weapon to destroy you but believing she will not do it, but rather hide it so nobody else can hurt you.

Hope this helped.