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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 31, 2022 13:49:21 GMT -5
A simple enough question, but also, complicated. Have you been in love? An enduring bond, a fleeting one, anything in between.
In my case, yes, a few times, including currently.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jan 31, 2022 14:02:12 GMT -5
I thought I was in love. It seemed like everything in the world was right.
Then I fell in love and realized the previous relationship was pure bullshit. It's one of those things you just don't know until you know.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 31, 2022 14:04:25 GMT -5
I've been in romantic love exactly once. Anything else romantically was infatuation at best (and it doesn't come to me easily because I'm demiromantic). Plenty of platonic and familial love to go around, though.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 31, 2022 14:10:10 GMT -5
I thought I was in love. It seemed like everything in the world was right. Then I fell in love and realized the previous relationship was pure bullshit. It's one of those things you just don't know until you know. Oh yeah, I've had that, too. Granted, I still had genuine feelings for the person during that, it was was just also a seriously emotionally abusive relationship. I just couldn't see that until time passed, I had more perspective, and more experience to realize what a bullet I dodged.
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Post by Instant Classic on Jan 31, 2022 14:15:05 GMT -5
Without a doubt. Been with my wife for 6 years this July and married for 3 in July.
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Post by edgestar on Jan 31, 2022 14:15:10 GMT -5
I'd say so, since we're married and not only love each other, but like each other. Plus, we laugh at each other, when the time doesn't call for it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2022 14:17:58 GMT -5
The one instance of genuine, reciprocated romantic love I've ever felt in my life was with a long-distance girlfriend I had as a teenager, and I only ended up meeting her in-person long after that feeling had passed. The times since then have ended up being either infatuation, or loving the validation that being in a relationship brought me. But it hasn't happened more than once in 20 years, and I doubt it will happen again within the next 20.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Jan 31, 2022 14:39:06 GMT -5
It’s a very weird, complicated question. But twice in my life, I believe.
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Post by thechase on Jan 31, 2022 14:47:28 GMT -5
I'm quite a romantic writer, but I don't think I could ever hold a romance in my social life, I'm too self-centred and used to routines that a relationship would only disrupt.
I've been in love twice, and only once with a real person.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jan 31, 2022 15:51:02 GMT -5
Desperatley, hopelessly, unrequitedly, yes.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 31, 2022 17:34:17 GMT -5
If by "love" you mean covert surveillance late at night, and collecting things for my shrine, then yes.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 31, 2022 17:35:41 GMT -5
It’s a very weird, complicated question. But twice in my life, I believe. Yeah, it's a complex question, but I wanted to leave it fairly open due to that, so people can bring their own interpretation on what counts for them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2022 18:17:44 GMT -5
Once with my first real girlfriend that I was with from the age of 18-22.
I later married someone else for 12 years. I thought I was in love but it just wasn't the same because it wasn't the first time. Once we split up I realized that I didn't actually love her, I loved having someone to play house with and own a dog with.
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Post by koreycaskets on Jan 31, 2022 20:35:39 GMT -5
I'm in my 40s, been married, had several girlfriends but.. I honestly don't think so. Thought I was a couple times though.
I've been in Lust, that I know.
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Post by Starshine on Jan 31, 2022 20:52:40 GMT -5
What is love?
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Jan 31, 2022 21:23:33 GMT -5
Yeah when Harley Quinn is not in the way.
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Post by Spider2024 on Jan 31, 2022 22:44:36 GMT -5
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Post by Duke Cameron on Jan 31, 2022 23:11:11 GMT -5
Yes.
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Post by Casey Jones (AKA MrThrowback) on Feb 1, 2022 0:32:30 GMT -5
I was, once apon a time. Our 19th anniversary is coming up. Can't tell if it's love or habit a this point.
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Post by agent817 on Feb 1, 2022 1:01:38 GMT -5
I haven't dated nor have been in a relationship in almost 6 years. It didn't last that long. It only lasted for about 3 or 4 months. I would say I loved her, but I don't even know if it was really love. I don't think about her all the time now. We ended things amicably and we're still friends, but I don't know if I still love her. I am not in love with her, nor am I sure if I was.
I am only 35 and I don't even think I've ever been in love. Sometimes I wonder why I haven't had any long-term relationships.
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