GAG CONTEST: What Does Love Mean To You?

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Hi everyone!

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and love is in the air!

For this Valentine's Day Contest, Tell us what love means to you.

GAG CONTEST: What Does Love Mean To You?

Share your interesting opinions below! Be sure to "like" your favorite ones as well.

Contest Dates: Wednesday, February 7 to Wednesday, February 14, 2024.

Winners will be announced on Thursday, February 15, 2024.

We have prizes! Two top winners (a guy and a girl) will each receive a $25 Amazon gift card for the US, UK, or Canada.

How winners will be selected: GAG Admins will pick two opinions among the most entertaining, interesting, and liked comments from our community. Users will have one week from when we message you, to reply for their gift card or another user or users will be selected.

StarWarGirl · Accepted Answer

I was curious about this my whole life. The definition of love kept changing for me again and again, but I guess now I have finally found what love actually means, at least for me.

For me, love means care, a willingness to protect the person who means a lot to us, love means that willingness to share our happy and sad moments with that person. Love means acceptance, every good and bad of that person, and what actually makes him the person he is. Love means understanding that imperfections are the true reality. Nobody can always be perfect without judging them with our perception. Love means growing together and helping each other to grow into their better self always. Love means that safe surrounding where we need not think twice about being ourselves.

Love definitely doesn't mean what I'm feeling "from" the other person or what I'm getting, but love actually means what we do feel "for" the other person and what we are willing to give. When that giving makes us feel happy, satisfied, and at peace, that is actual love.

dragoblack · Accepted Answer

Caring about someone deeply, finding attraction in them in almost every thing they do, making effort to get to know them, showing that you listen, showing appreciation for the effort in the relationship, showing it in verbal, physical, and emotional, basic intimacy, improving yourself by getting over bad habbits they notice, and actually making effort to talk about issues in a relationship, rather than yelling and throwing/hitting things.

AmandaYVR · Answer

Love, to me... Is exhilarating, exciting, joyful. Mesmerizing. Expansive. Love centres, calms, comforts.  It is a tight hug, a shoulder, closed eyes, a kiss on the lips, forehead, cheek. Love gives and does not ask to receive. It is the benefit of the doubt.  It is hopeful.  It is faith. Love is patient. It is holding, not clutching. Love waits.  Love is wanting to share your life, your world, your heart. Love is working together as one. Love is "us", "we". Love is life sweeter shared. It is not selfish. It is not about keeping tabs or evening scores. It is compromise and sacrifice. It is giving, even when we are not at our best. It exists through difficult times, not just when it is easy, convenient, or self-serving.  The needs and wants of another become ours. Their joys become ours. Their tears become our tears.  It is the want for another to be happy. It is making mistakes, but not giving up. It is allowing others to make mistakes, and not giving up on them, either. It is accepting each other for everything that they are, 'flaws' and all. It is forgiveness. Love is hard. Love is soft. Love is frightening. Love is vulnerable. Love is risk. It is exposing fear, exposing heart. If vulnerability and ego are the cost, acceptance and love are the gain. Love breaks. Love is painful af. Love is messy. Deep, reciprocal, all-encompassing love, no matter how long it lasts, has the power to change people, to move people, to inspire people. It leaves indelible ink on our souls. It is being known. It is... worth it.

zeitgeist057 · Answer

I asked myself this question for a long time, what does it mean when I say "I love you" or someone says it to me?

Loving someone starts with knowing them; you cannot love someone without first knowing them. Love often starts with an imagination or fantasy about someone, where we think we know them, but really it's a fantasy we've created. Often people also put a facade out, not who they really are, but they present what they think we want, in order to obtain our love. This type of false knowledge can lead to disillusionment and a dissipation of love, as it was based on nothing/fantasy.

Love is approval or acceptance. To embrace the person as they are. The more you truly know someone, the more it is possible to love them. But often people are afraid to show who they are, which makes it impossible to love that which they keep hidden. They deny themselves the possibility of acceptance. But once you trust someone, open up and be vulnerable, they can really know you and really love you. The risk is they can also reject you, but really it's not as bad as being "fake loved" for being fake. Better to be real. True, real love, is amazing.

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ohsheeT · Answer

Thank God for Dogs. mans best Friend. a thousand years ago. Men were selfish. so God Made the dog to teach us
unconditional love. lol fast forward 1000 years we haven't gone very far it seems like.

for me love is one of the most important things in this world I believe we are all meant to love each other we are all meant to be one.

no drama no judgment just love. if you see somebody struggling you stop and you have to give them a helping hand you have to love yourself enough to take your time to help that person that is love

the thing is no matter what it is we only know what we know.
so growing up you only know the love that you have experienced.
I feel bad for people that don't understand love or don't have it within their hearts to show love but we only know what we know. it's our job to experience everything on this planet is deep as we possibly can to understand it to become it

love is a way to show how much you care love is a way to say thank you for all you do for me.
love is so powerful and so beautiful.
love is a beautiful energy and you can feel it just by looking into somebody's eyes their smile or their touch love is a way to say I care I believe in you and I love you. when we were born we were all giving a gift that gift is choice almost more powerful than love but if you choose to love yourself you will love others and others will love you

PBandJ_Nerd · Answer

For me love doesn't just apply to romantic partners, it applies to anyone and everyone. Most people have said Valentines day only applies to couples and in my case that just isn't true. My parents have given me gifts on the day of to let me know that they love me (and I've done the same to them, by helping them pick out gifts). I've spent Valentines day with my friends and made treats to show that I love them and care about them. It is just another day of the year and February is just another month, but just like any other holiday you show those around you affection, love, care, etc. Some people would feel less lonely in the world if we remembered to do that. While this is early: Happy Valentines Day everyone! 💝

Apple1996 · Answer

Im not sure if love really has a definition to define its meaning.🤔 It's something that my heart and feelings naturally do on their own. Love gives and receives freely without much thinking or doing required. And that is the beautiful thing about love because it doesn't need any meaning or definition to exist.

Finchie40 · Answer

Love to me means , choosing someone the same way they choose you , accepting each others’ flaws and standing by each others’ side through the ups and downs , Removing selfishness for each other and resisting temptations for each other. Making each other your top priority.

Jessica405 · Answer

Sharing!  Sharing life. Sharing chores. Sharing cooking. Sharing ideas.  ... and of course, sharing a bed.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Happy Valentine's Day, Mr Admin, have a Blessed one !!! What Valentine's Day means to me is remembering being in grade school and exchanging Valentines with our classmates, and it makes me feel happy, I sure miss them days.

purplepoppy · Answer

It's a bond between opposing sexes that keeps them together despite the easy availability of higher-quality mating material thus maximizing your long-term reproductive success.

AviatorTom · Answer

Love is an invitation to be oneself. Love is not lust, it's not the feeling that you must always be with the person you love. If you love someone, you accept them for who and what they are.

exitseven · Answer

It means that I am really not all alone in this world.

Likes2drive · Answer

Caring and willing to do anything for that person, not being afraid to show how you feel. Supposedly it’s the same as eating a lot of chocolate but I’ve never noticed that

D_Bone_Steak · Answer

My hot dog and her doughnut hole. Love is deep when it is with me ♥

Tiptoetamm · Answer

So what love means to me. This used to be a really hard question for me, I never had the answer to. So I love myself first and foremost. I feel a lot of people forget about themselves in a relationship, and forget to love themselves or feel it's selfish to love themselves and it's not. I've been guilty of this in the past. So my love is enough for me. Loving your good, bad and ugly. Forgiving yourself for mistakes and choices you have made. Accepting yourself for who you are. I believe you can love someone if you don't love yourself but it's really difficult. So you really should love yourself first or at least putting love into yourself. Love is something built over time. You may have love for someone but truly loving them comes from truly knowing someone. Getting to know them and letting yourself be valuable as well. Love is also fully accepting the person your with. You need to choose someone who your comfortable accepting all of them, and comfortable truly being yourself with this person. We are human and we are not perfect we will make mistakes. But for me loving someone is loving their good, bad and ugly just like myself. Not trying to change them. Being able to truly be yourself with them as well. Knowing that a relationship is 100% and 100% not 50% 50% and sometimes your not always going to have 100 and that's when your partner picks up the slack and sometimes you're both not going to be 100% that's when you make time for each other. Love is being there for the hard times and not giving up on them. Love is being there for them when they are sick and cannot go anything for themselves. Love is celebrating the good moments together. I also believe setting boundaries are also so important and shows love in my opinion. If you respect your partners boundaries and they respect your boundaries that shows love. Communicating even when it's hard. Having those hard conversations that no one wants to have but is super important. Love is trying to see the other person's perspective and trying to work things out. That's some of what love means to me. This was a great question!

TenderFantasy · Answer

Are you able to make the prize $100 or $50 dollars instead of $25? Hehe. Inflation and all. 😉

Well to me, love is a lot of things. It isn't limited to romantic love. It can be love for your parents and siblings and other family members (familial love). It can also be love for your friends. Love has broad meanings and, as complicated as it sounds, it can mean different things to different people as well! Heck, some people don't even have that kind of love for their family, or they're not capable of giving it or even receiving it. If you look at the news and see/hear all the bad stuff, somewhere inside that person, they have lost love for their fellow human. I also think that love means care. Love means to care about someone (sometimes even above your own needs). Love is actually rather simple, yet people like to complicate it. And yes, as I've said, it's synonymous to care. If you don't care, then you don't love. A lot of people would say that love is deeper than care, but often times, caring is the first step to loving someone or something. .. Now I'm not talking about love as in that overused word people proclaim when they say they love ice cream, pizza or their favorite sports team, or place to go on vacation like Disneyland or the Grand Canyon, etc. My definition of love is deeper than that. Love to me is when you are able to sacrifice things for the good for your relationship. .. This is going to sound morbid too, but it can even be as big as taking a bullet for someone and doing the ultimate sacrifice! To me, love is also commitment because it's not always easy to commit when times get tough.

.. So I know I said that love is simple, but it is also hard to do because not everyone is capable of such things because people's inherent will is to survive and to reproduce. That is where their selfish wants and needs come from. Of course people love themselves, but to love another person, as I've said, it can take a lot, because either they're not USED to doing that, or they aren't capable. Sometimes your love for your child (or your OBLIGATION to make sure that your child survives to puberty so that they can give you grandchildren), is also a selfish desire for your genes. To love isn't always easy. Heck, LIFE isn't easy, and it's about surviving. I also want to mention that there's different degrees to love. How much you love someone is ALWAYS tested. Steve Harvey said in his 2009 book "Act like a Lady, think like a Man", that when a man loves someone or something, he will PROTECT, PROFESS and PROVIDE for them. Maybe that is true, but sadly, I've yet to experience that outside my family. .. But anyway..

thank you for this question.

.. Oh! There's also the Christian version of love that's said in many wedding vows:

The book of Corinthians in the bible Chapter 13 Verses 4-7.

❤ Again, I would like to emphasize the word commitment. Because it's not always easy to do (in fact it often times isn't). ❤

Anyway yes, like other's have said:

HawkPerception · Answer

Love encompasses many different aspects. Love is not as simple as people make it out to be. If you love someone, you could hate them, but also be willing to die for them. You could be distant with someone, but when they really need you, you'll show up. You could want to give your loved ones the world, but never put any action into showing your affection. You could hold a grudge against that person, but still only wish them the best. You may not even realize how much you love someone until they're gone.

The cold hard truth is... love is based on reciprocation. Even when you think you love a baby unconditionally, it's not really unconditional. You love the idea that they are your own flesh and blood and that you'll help to instill your values in them and shape who they are as a person. You hope that they'll become a part of your legacy. For women, it's different as the baby was literally a part of them at some point and they have maternal instincts, son maybe a mother's love for her child is the purest form of love there is in life and the reason why reproduction is one of the most effective ways of the continuation of a species. But I promise you, that if the child does enough to push their parents over the edge, at that point even their parents will stop loving them.

In a significant other, you have a checklist for traits you want them to have. You want them to be honest and trustworthy, loyal, empathetic and caring, respect you, be committed and dedicated to you, listen to and understand you, put in effort to make you happy, and accept you for you. Without those traits and effort they put in, you can quite literally fall out of love with someone, lose feelings for them, and move on. That is why love is all about reciprocation.

True love is what everyone seeks. At the core of it is unwavering loyalty and trust. Knowing without a shadow of a doubt that person will always your back and always be there for you, not having to look over your shoulder every minute. Knowing they prioritize you over everything else. Knowing that they can put your needs above theirs in times when you need it. True love is committed and unwavering.

laurieluvsit · Answer

This is a True Story... no, I am not kidding.

A boy that I know, deep down inside had to find out if his fiance 'really' loved him, or not, prior to their soon upcoming wedding date. He knew she just relished and adored, most of all, his handsome thick naturally wavy, silky and shiny dark hair.

She ran her fingers through it, she bragged to all her friends and relatives about it, she combed it, brushed it and took pictures of it in such a way as to highlight what was truly an elegant masterpiece to her. Then she texted them, emailed them, posted them on social media and framed the best of those on her wall for all to see.

Just a few days prior to their wedding date, the door bell rang and she went to answer it. Upon opening the door she stood facing her boy like she had so many times before, but now with all of his gorgeous hair shaved bald and gone from the top of his head to the bottom of his neck, with not a strand remaining in place.

At first, being unable to move or speak, she stood as a statue in a state of stunned disbelief.

In a few seconds, and upon regaining a portion of her consciousness, yet nearing a faint, she stumbled over to the couch and threw herself upon it, crying in such an hysterical and uncontrollable manner, with a pain like she had never ever felt before.

Without hesitation, except to allow her the space she needed, her boy went to her, kneeling by her side and waited. Soon, through the loud, and pain filled, sobs of her sorrow she lifted her head from the tear soaked pillow, and looking upon him she said, "I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING! AND I STILL LOVE YOU!!"

Now they immediately and intensely embraced one another as though they were to never let go again. The boys tears began to flow until they mixed together with her own.

What does Love mean to me? ... that is a question I no longer have to answer. My friends answered it for me.

MasseurDeMojo · Answer

Love is - Being there for the other person, no matter what the situation. Always giving 100 percent to each other. Always asking questions to learn about each other, and through the questions grow closer to each other. Be willing to compromise. Never letting yourselves rest if you are angry, but rather talk out your issue, so you can rest in peace, and continue to desire each other more.

Bringing gifts that you know they like as a surprise. Giving them your time every day, just to listen to them, and let them have their moment. Always ready to defend them; always ready to give praise. Leaving little notes around the house or in the car, just to let them know how much you care.

When you have children, making sure they know that you are a team, and equally share yourselves with each other and the kids. Planning date nights; walks late at night when the kids are sound asleep.

True love is found when both of you cannot live without the other. You have connected on a very deep level. It is not about sex, but real friendship and desire for each other. Because of that deep connection, the sex will be true bliss between you.

smne35 · Answer

Haven't your heard love is a many splendor thing, well used to be then, today live has evolved become more tailored to suit the need of various lifestyles, weather it be lgbt did I get all the letters, or man and woman, people are expressing their view of love how they view and understand it, and long as the basic values are there the concept, idea, before of how live is perceived remains in place, two people respecting honoring and supporting each other, and as long as we humans exist love the concept of it will continue to evolve as we do, after all it was us who shaped love into what it is today, from being a counter opposite to hate into the entity that brings meaning to our lives, love inspires, us drives us to be better humans towards each other, gives confidence to be bold take risk that we normally wouldn't it give us-l no it enhances how in us gives us that extra strength push to hold on a bit longer fight harder to overcome any and move obstacles that's confronting us, love brings forth the very best of from us and you can't beat that

Phoenix98 · Answer

I think the bible says it best.

If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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Happy Valentine's Day, Mr Admin, have a Blessed one !!! What Valentine's Day means to me is remembering being in grade school and exchanging Valentines with our classmates, and it makes me feel happy, I sure miss them days.

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Happy Valentine's Day, Mr Admin, have a Blessed one !!! What Valentine's Day means to me is remembering being in grade school and exchanging Valentines with our classmates, and it makes me feel happy, I sure miss them days.

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