What Does Real Love Feel Like?

This is one of the great undefined mysteries of life. The fact that the perception of "love" can be viewed in so many different ways by humans often clouds the true definition of the word.

The feelings experienced in the early stages of a promising intimate relationship include those of excitement, lust and great sexual appetite. You may also feel overwhelmed with thoughts of your lover and be rather flooded with emotions and hormones, of which are chemical reactions that occur as part of the bonding process.

When a relationship has matured, your feelings may alter to a different, more relaxed level. Having established history and a bond, your relationship will have a solid foundation upon which you will feel comforted, secure and contented. The feelings of affection and happiness are very much included in this stage of love, but they feel less frantic than in earlier times of your engagement with your lover.

It is often said that you will "just know" when you experience true, everlasting love. A good way to find out if you are onto a good thing is to ask yourself the following questions:

* Can you think of any reason why this person might not be right for you? If your mind is flooded with bad thoughts, perhaps you are not experiencing true love.

* Does this person make you feel happy, fulfilled and respect you? If they don't, you will be missing out on a major part of what constitutes a successful relationship.

* Has this person ever been unfaithful to you? Have you ever been unfaithful to this person? If the answer to either question is yes, you may not be in quite the right relationship. Fidelity is key to the formula of a well formed relationship.

*Can you see yourself marrying this person and being with them for the rest of your life? Certainly those experiencing a wonderful relationship will not hesitate to agree with this question.

People talk about the feelings of love and they are talking about different aspects as though they were the same.  I agree with most people who post, that real, long-term Love is a wondrous fulfilling feeling akin to what you feel for other family members and best-friends all rolled into one.  

Romantic love, especially when it is new or the first time you've feel it has other aspects that don't feel so great.  They are just as important to understanding the feeling.  Love can contain other feelings like jealousy or vulnerability, it can make you feel sick to your stomach, give you the jitters, it can make you feel like your having a heart attack or want to throw up.  It can make you feel vulnerable and make you want to hide or hurt the other person before they hurt you.  These tend to go away over time when trust is established.

Many people sabotage relationships because they don't understand why they feel so weird.  That can be the beginnings of love.  Hopefully, over time the negative aspects wane and are replaced with a warm glow and feelings of fulfillment when you see that the emotions are returned.  

If you don't have a context to understand these feelings, it's confusing!

When your lover is away from you, you cant think about anything else and all you want to do is get back to them. You know your in love when your lover hurts you so bad by the simplest of things that you wouldnt even think twice if someone else did..  It takes two to make true love work..  If your lover truly loves you then it feels like the world could end and both of you wouldnt rather be anywhere else but in each others arms

I know you are going to think that this is NOT WHAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR, but please try it.  Look up the description of love in the BIBLE.  If you feel those things, some of them being unselfish, not jealous, putting her/him before all others, etc.  (please read it)  Then if you feel peace in your heart when you are together and never threatened - when you feel like you have found your best friend ever and yet you have such tender passionate feelings.......you probably got it good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And then I say   Congtatulations.  If not, don't settle until you get what you deserve and that is all of the above.

When you find love you cant stand to be away from each other. You feel as if you will die without them. You will give anything to see their cute smile their dimples and the look in their eyes if saying your the only thing that helps me threw life. But..... There are people who act if they love you so waite for "the one".

P.S. Hope you like my thing about love i just wrote what was on my mind.

I do feel that i love my boyfriend, we are happy together and we trust each other in any situation. I see my self with him in the future.  Our relationship is exciting and lust. We love each other and i feel secure with him and he also feels secure with me.

I can only said ask your self if you See you life with out of him? If the answer is no then you really are experience a true love i will do anything for my boyfriend to understand that my life with out of him is not a life = dead and sadness that only people that experience this understand the dark and the cold you feel when that person is not with you like my babe mandeep.

Its the greatest feeling you will ever experience

It feels like your in heaven. If you tongue kiss you cant control yourself.

The definition of love is to always be satisfied with your partner weather they are a hobo a freak a fat one weather they look good or not.

The feeling of love cant be explaind! It can but... Hmm heres my explanation...
You feel good a fuzzy feeling in your stomick! You feel like you can fly!
Hope this helps! :)

Right now, I am in the beginning stages of Romantic Love with someone I have been waiting for a life time for. Why do I feel this way? Because it is something that I have not EVER felt before. And like Blurt said, I have had so many emotions that I have had jitters, been sick to my stomach, cry on a moment's notice (not sobbing...it's like I'm leaking the tears! WEIRD!) And I know my guy feels the same way but he's more of the doubter then me, started suggesting I was a good bull sh*tter and what not. I cannot nor could EVER bulls*it THIS feeling! Overwhelming, uncompromising. Truly, madly and deeply....I am in love...and I cannot wait to be with him...to show him how I feel and to smooth those slightly ruffled feathers lol :)

Umm..you can tell in different ways, like when i realised i was in love, all i could think about was the guy, he was constantly in my mind. I get butterflies everytime im around him, and when im with him it feels as if nothing could be wrong in the world. I know im definately in love with my boyfriend, hes the most important person in my life, other than my parents obviously.
But it really is the most amazing feeling you will ever experience, all you need is love and it will feel like you are on top of the world <33
x x x

It feels like soft snowdrops falling on your face,amazing xxx

If you want to feel rel love you need to feel god...there is no other answer for this questoin...

You know when you wake up in the morning and all you can think about is that person.
Or when you're sad and for some reason the only one that can help is him/her. Even if you don't talk about what is bothering you.
When you no longer feel like doing something you were passionate about, because you want to be with him/ her.
When you hug him/ her  you feel  safe, and never want to leave
you become lost in their eyes.
You know you don't have to change because he/ she will accept you anyways.
And knowing you can TRUST them, if you doubt it, it will not be the good kinda love
when you're in love you will know it.
Its the most amazing/ scary thing that will ever happen to you
just make sure that who ever you do let yourself fall in love with deserves your love.

It is very easy to know how can you feel that it is a real love or not try to be away from that person if you can do it so that mean that you doesn't love that person , but it will be something as like or the beginning of love but it will not be a real love .
The real love  mean  that you can never  be away from your lover.

This question cannot be answered easily.. But the only way I know how to explain it is.. "It's More Than A Feeling..."

I asked my mum this question alot. She said you have to get to know each other and be patient. Love happens slowly. And it's when you can realize their faults but still love them anyway. When you fight you can always talk about it to resolve it. When you can look them in the eye after you've first had sex and smile at each other, not feeling ashamed. Love is more then a feeling. It's expressed through their actions as well. It's incredible.
I just hope I can find that one day.