How does it feel to be in love to you?

True letter (edited for length) I wrote to my girlfriend.
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Whenever I lay down to sleep, I picture you. I think of times, places, events, when we were together. I try and remember your smell, your touch, your look. Your smile, oh that smile. Your wry humour that is 9 parts angelic, and 1 sultry.

When I awake, next to my alarm is your photo. Once I see it, I cannot go back to sleep. I lie there in complete calm, thinking about you.

I think about you in the shower. Rather than thinking about past experiences, I think about upcoming ones, or even fantasize the future. I think about eating dinner with you that night, or seeing you at work later that week, or 5 years down the road telling our kids how we met.

Sometimes my thoughts go the other way. What would happen if... If you died? If we broke up? If you were ill? It may sound depressing, but it's "emergency planning". Who would I have to kill to save your life? What cure for cancer would I have to find? Clearly a fantastical belief, but to be truthful, it's thoughts that I think. I've contemplated how far I would go to save you, and no boundary I've found yet I wouldn't attempt to overcome.

Not even death. We're both atheists, but if you died, I would have no qualms in dying too. Not from grief or suicide. I'd do so clearly and quickly. If there was an afterlife, I'd follow you. I'd be compelled to. I've thought of 'what if' there really was a heaven and hell, who hasn't (even us atheists!). And if I had to overthrow Satan to get to you I would. Or God... It's in the fantastical that I push the boundaries. Would I do this or that? This or that could be anything. Any pain, any impossibility, and unethical encounter. And I've not thought of one that would make me second guess getting to you.

Out of all the times and things we do together, I love dancing with you the most. It might be the alcohol, because as I know you, it takes a LOT of alcohol to get me to dance. But when we're dancing together, in a crowd of a hundred, and I feel I'm alone with you. You smile and laugh and whip my face with your hair every time you turn to fast. Your breasts press into my chest or back, and in a non-sexual way I enjoy it because it's as close as you can get to me at that moment. I remember one time I could feel your heart beating in my chest. The vibrations boom boom boom boom. It was pathetic at keeping beat to the song, but it kept a different beat.

And yet, after all these words above, I've still not grazed the surface of my feelings. You inhibit my world, both conscious and unconscious. The reason I write prose is the same reason every poet that's ever walked the earth does, to try and find those perfect words to express their feelings. They did it for their loves, I do it for mine. But we are all destined to fail.

The truth is, no words will ever express the feelings we have. Nothing can. You could use every word in the dictionary a 1000 times and still fail.

So I'll use 3.
I love you.

wen ur in love you can't get the tought of him/her outa ur head for vera long, you feel overwelmingly happy to just be near em, and it WILL control the vast majority of ur interactions with them

Rome wasn't built in a day, neither can love. I believe memories, smiles, and time are the bricks we need to build something wonderful, despite many watch what they built fall, we just continue to rebuild and move on. that's life with love

One of the greatest reasons to live.

Well, when you fall in love.. you see the most beautiful person in the world in front of you.. they are radiant and are basically your whole world. A best friend, a lover. It is the warmest, happiest feeling ever and you just wanna smile. You spend your day drifting off thinking about your love, and can't wait to see them as soon as possible. You'd do anything for this person, and love to make their life just a little easier for them... True love is amazing.

Love is the worst thing on the planet for me.

I have only loved one man in my life even though I have had other partners. I have respected them and acted lovingly to them but have never loved until I met the man I am with now. So when I say love in my comment I am going to say 'he' rather than it cause he is love to me.

So he makes me feel weak, vulnerable, scared, worried, out of control, foolish, human. He makes me feel like a little girl which I hate. Even though he tells me I'm his angel, I feel immensely flawed. He consumes my thoughts and I hate that as well. I want to function again. I want to not be consumed by another person. Love is everything I don't want to be.

But that's how I know I love him. It would be easier to walk away. It would be easier to find someone who didn't make me vulnerable or didn't touch places in me I really didn't know existed. And I'm one of those people who probably could live without him. But I know that I'm never going to love again. That's just me. I know that if something happened between us or he died tomorrow, I wouldn't love someone else. I might even end up with someone but I know I wouldn't love them. Because love is a very specific thing that he brought out in me. He made me a completely different person. He made me romantic. He made me see sex is about intimacy. He made me dream about a future with someone else.

I think the hardest thing for me in love is the feeling of belonging to each other. It is terrifying to know that someone else has something as fragile as your heart in their hands. And as much as you kick and scream and pull away, you know that if you walk away they will still have your heart.

So to me, love is someone owning something that belonged to me my whole life and was able to keep from everyone else. So it scares me that this person was some how able to get it. And he was able to get it when he wasn't the logical choice. I've been with more logical choices. And I was comfortable with that. Other guys where more perfect for me.

I feel like we have 100 to 1 odds of making it. But you put all your money on that bet. And every frustration or miscommunication or the rare fight makes you think "We aren't going to make it" but we do. Cause unlike anything else in my entire life, I am fighting, even against the odds, to be with him. I fight against my fears and worries and emotions everyday to be with him.

So to me love is also a constant fight against myself to not take the easy way out. Cause love is harder than anything else you will ever do. But I know I love him cause I'm willing to fight even myself for him.

i guess it's different than being happy because I bought a ton of clothes or make up for myself-since I haven't been in love, I guess it's a feeling ofbeing attached to someone-i'm not sure if I've been in love-i've been infatuated I guess perhaps. I prefer to call it not love. love is a very strong emotion

My experience with love is that when you're with that person all of the little problems going on in your day seem to disappear and time seems to stand still, and yet when you look at the clock time really has flown by. Your heart leaps when you see them and it feels as though your whole body and soul yearns for them. Instead of your family and obligations holding to this earth, that person does. Just thinking of their name makes you smile and it feels as though your life is complete.
I didn’t expect to fall in love with him, but I’m certainly glad I did. When I’m with him, all the problems in my life seem to disappear. My heart leaps when I see him and it feels as though my whole body and soul yearn for him. Just thinking about him, puts a smile on my face. Even though we’re now in a long distance relationship, I still love him and can’t wait until the moment where I get to be in his arms again.

Its very painful, and yet its the best and strongest feeling that I've ever felt. I love it when the person is holding you, but being in a bad fight to the point where its almost ending, makes you die inside. Break ups are the worst thing I've ever been through. Maybe I took it over-board, but I felt like dying because I was just so torn apart. Its the worst feeling ever. But being in love is the strongest feeling. it will make you do things that youve never even considered doing before. =] good things, of course. but its... its amazing and.. just wow.
It really does change your life once your in love. You see things differently. You really do. And some people are even scared of it because its so powerful. I don't find it anything to be scared of, but it can really hurt you if you mess up. and I mean HURT you. it will tear you apart. or at least it did when we broke up. But now we're back together and I feel so happy. Of course things have changed to make it work, but... Its just a very strong feeling that will take you over.

When I was younger I thought love was all passion and heat and chemistry.
Now, much more mature and married - I knew I really loved my husband when I wanted to kill and kiss him at the same time. Our relationship showed me that love was choosing to stay, despite the trials and tribulations of cohabiting. Being married isn't easy - there are disagreements, hurt feelings, callous words and at time violent urges (asking for the 100th time to have something done can stir up some pretty violent urges). But it's also cheerleading your partner, giving them something to cling to when times are dark, inside jokes, and tenderness. I learned that you can't always understand what motivates those you love, and trying to will only cause problems. Love is letting your partner be who they are and accepting them wholly - flaws and all.
Because no matter how crazy your spouse can drive you, you can't imagine your world without them.

First of all, this answer will be different for everyone and everyone's views will be different. For instance, my boyfriend and I believe that loving someone and being in love with someone is completely different. In fact, our views on being "in love" are different as well in some ways.

Well, I have been with my best friend for two and a half years. He knows everything about me, loves me for who I am, makes me laugh and smile every day, and just generally cares about me and wants the best for me.

I fell in love with him after about a year of being together with each other. I had known him for seven years as friends and we started dating in 2007. We were hanging out with friends and I went outside to get something from my car. It was a very very cold night and I started to have an asthma attack. A friend of ours came out there saw me and called Devan to come outside and told him I was having an asthma attack. When Devan found out he sprinted outside and ran over to me and held me in his arms. he took off his coat, put it around me and went through the process of getting me to breathe normally again. He stood me up in order to help my lungs better, and he started singing to me Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds" which sings, "Don't you worry, about a thing, 'cuz every little things going to be alright" and ect.. He started swaying with me, which is the first time we had danced since our senior prom, and that was over a year before.

This was the first time I felt that he would do anything for me to make sure I was safe. He was truly worried about me. He doesn't sing for anyone, and he sang for me. He didn't care he was cold, when it was in the 20s outside, he just wanted me to feel better. He put me in front of him in every manner possible. It was that moment when I fell in love with him.

To me, being in love has to do with putting your partner first in your eyes. Meaning, you want to do everything and anything to make sure they are happy. You are open to them completely, meaning you do not hide anything from them, even if you think it could make them angry. Some couples who are relatively new tell me that they have never fought with their partner because they are such a good couple. What I tell them is, sooner or later you will start having arguments. Every good couple has arguments. That means they are expressing themselves and not being taken over or just agreeing with their partner to make sure they don't make them angry.

You truly look forward to spending time with them each and every day. They always make you smile and they always make time for you and vice versa.

I could go on forever defining my beliefs but I will stop writing because I have written probably more than you want to read.

Just remember, being in love is a wonderful feeling. You're putting yourself out there for someone to love COMPLETELY and WHOLEY.

Hope this has helped! :)