Love: A Truest Essay: What Is Love?

. Love is not painful. If it hurts, then it is not love, but something different than love. Instead, it may be fear, possessiveness, attachment, insecurities, or addiction. In addition, love is considered to drive people crazy. However, love does not drive a person crazy. Instead, it makes them rational or sensible.

There is love of affection and love of non-affection. Love of affection is where one loves for the right reasons and in the right ways such as a man or woman who loves their partner for who they are. On the other hand, love of non-affection is love for the wrong reasons. An example is a woman or man who is in love with a person due to his or her wealth. This general conception of what love is, is often confused by many people. There is not only one defined love of affection, but there are many subgroups of love such as brotherly love, puppy love, maternal love, and so on. But the love that is going to be focused on will be love between two people.

Love is not a feeling. In fact, the truest kind of love is selflessness, faithfulness, commitment, trustworthiness, kindness, and honest. True love is different from the definition that society follows by. Alternatively, true love is the opposite of society’s definition in which a person is not needing or being attached to another person, but instead sets both parties in a relationship free; for there is trust, honesty, communication, commitment, and so on between one another. However, there are conditions in which both people have to have and implement all of these qualities in the relationship or else one would be at risk of being emotionally hurt or heart broken because the person will feel as if his or her love is being taken advantaged of and the person does not feel val...

... middle of paper ...

...e needs to be the right amount of infatuation to start love and make it gradually develop into true love. There needs to be more than feelings for love. Conditional love is love for the fact that the person tries to push the other person to do their best because they care, but love that is forceful meaning that it has to be earned under conditions is not love. Love is about accepting everything and loving a person for the right reasons. Without love, life is empty and pointless because people need to be loved to feel safe, trusted, understood, wanted, cared, and so on to feel ultimate happiness and therefore love can lead to this because within love there is jealousy, understanding, caring, affection, trustworthiness, honesty, freedom, satisfaction, and etc. Love requires both parties to love each other back in order for it to be balanced so happiness can be lasting.