I've been pondering this for quite some time. I was on Runescape, talking to a good friend. I was saying how I found out that the girl I love doesn't love me back. Someone high alching nearby said, "Love is for marriage."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is love really for marriage? Is it possible to be in love with someone and have no thoughts of having a family with him/her, and spending your whole life together with that person? When I asked some of my friends, a few said yes and a few said no. So, what do you think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, I don't believe that love is for marriage. After all, your age (which, before 18, significantly determines how you can marry someone, obviously) doesn't signify anything to me, since some adults act like children and some kids act like they could fit in at a fancy dinner party or something like that.

I don't think love is for marriage. I love my family and I love my friends. I wouldn't marry my family and I don't have a friend that I would consider marrying anytime soon. But I love them all the same. To me, love is just an incredibly strong bond that holds people together. Love doesn't mean you have to do romantic things for them, you don't have to participate in adult activities with them, and you don't have to marry them. But one day you'll find someone you love enough to marry and those things I said you don't have to do before come into play..

love:

 

 

 

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1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

 

 

 

2. a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't just for marriage, at all.

Depends what kind of love you're talking about.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's a love you feel for your family, the love you feel for your friends, and the love you feel for the boy/girl you're in a relationship with. I guess that could also be split up into "love" you feel for a girlfriend or boyfriend, when it's not as serious as the other, the love between a husband and wife.

love? whats that? :cry:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lol, joking. love isnt necessarily for marriage.

Going to agree with Mr. Sp4de here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love obviously isn't for marriage. GF/BF couples love eachother all the time. I love my mom and dad aswell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love is a very deep, connected feeling you have with someone. All it is a deep connection.

Love is where you have feelings for someone and you will be happy to do anything for them, and see them around all the time. If you have disagreements you will come to a conclusion that benefits both parties and you wont hold grudges. Love is hard to explain :wink:

Right, i've cleaned this topic of the spam and all references to Shin's little joke, please keep it clean guys.

First of all, I've always thought of the word "love" as a ridiculous one - having a singular word for such a profound concept which can vary at times in its application has - to me - always been regarded as consummately stupid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As mentioned earlier, the word can denotate strong sense of a bond you feel with family, friends as well as your "lover". In each case, I think we can all agree that the meaning of "love" differs somewhat. In any case, in regards to your question, I think my dissemination up there answers it in a vague and not so well manner. Love is just a feeling of a deep and profound bond to someone, in which trust and respect is one of its main tenants. Following that course of logic, it can be ascertained that love, therefore, can be applied before and after marriage, as you need only to have that bond.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generally, the way I like to view it is that marriage is a symbol and solidification of the bond - or love, if you want to use that poor word - that you feel for your significant other.

I'm in love and i'm not married

 

 

 

... :)

"They have invented a new phrase that is a black-and-white contradiction in two words - 'free love.' As if a lover had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the insititution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word."

 

 

 

-G.K. Chesterton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, as Forsaken pointed out, the English word love has numerous meanings, but in the sense of romantic love, I do believe that marriage is the logical outworking of love.

Love is when stupidity strikes. You feel happy being with the person, you think about them sexually, and you'd do ANYTHING for them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rule out sexually bit, and that's platonic too.

Look it up in the dictionary. I'm glad to say 'marriage' doesn't feature in it's definition.

Why is Deloria so good at saying what I'm thinking?!? Oh well. Its not just for marriage.

You can have love for your friends and family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can have love for your mate. (Husband or wife/girlfriend or boyfriend)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can have sacrificial love. (willing to die in order to save someone else's life.)

How do you get to marriage without love?

i personally think that if you do in fact have feelings of love for another person you should want to be with them for the rest of your life. It is a concept that takes a very long time to gain enough experiance to come to an educated decision on. You must know the person very well before you can consider being in love with them. I have been with my girl friend for nearly 3 and a half years and have just decided in the past 4 months that i am in fact in love with her. I realize that i would do anything for her and if had to make the choice today of being with her for the rest of my life or waiting for something better i would take her...that just my thoughts on the topic.

love is feeling warm around the one you love,

 

 

 

love is feeling confident and sheltered around the one you love,

 

 

 

love is being open to eachother and telling eachother secrets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think about that in your spare time :

How do you get to marriage without love?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the Tudor times, and long before and after it, it was quite common for children as young as a few years old to be betrothed (engaged). Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon were betrothed when he was three years old. It wasn't their choice.

How do you get to marriage without love?

 

 

 

Arranged marriage, marriage first and then let the love come.

 

How do you get to marriage without love?

 

 

 

Arranged marriage, marriage first and then let the love come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love doesn't necessarily eventuate from an arranged marriage - most of the time it's tolerance and fondness towards your partner at best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In contemporary context however, I hold the view that I expressed earlier on in this thread.

its like

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this tingling sensation you get

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in your heart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and pants