I love you VS I am in love with you.

Do they mean the same thing to you all?

I've never told anyone "I am in love with you". I have loved and have said I love you to my significant other but like you I can love alot of people and animals. Have you ever said, I'm in love with you?

Posted by aquapiscescusp
Do they mean the same thing to you all?

I love you = I choose to love you - I love you for a reason - I love my car because it's economical, I love my shoes because they are comfortable, I love you because you have been faithful and shown love to me and are loyal to me.

I am in love with you = Equals the true feeling of love - the elation of love. The feeling that can be fleeting but in a true loving relationship always returns.

Which is better well I dunno.... you are talking about semantics here after all. I would say to tell someone that you love them..

a) Represents serious feelings. Ones that you don't always feel and that make you feel needed and wanted.

b) But it also represents the choice to love someone even when those feelings aren't present. Because they will never always be. But true love will always have those feelings return no matter what. At the end of the day, we all think of love in a very selfish way. Love is something you do without expecting something necessarily in return.

I love you is an action.
I am in love with you is a state of being.

Wow why can't I be more concise :/

Thanks!

Sometimes I say stuff and then all comments cease...
Makes you wonder sometimes...
I usually elaborate waaaaaay to much like as if someone couldn't understand from two sentences lol! I bet I come across as a very patronizing person to some people oh well. I'm off to get a hair cut... I'm shaggy like shaggy from scooby doo.

Posted by NotYourAverageAquarius
I love you is an action.
I am in love with you is a state of being.

Wow why can't I be more concise :/

Oh I like that 😛

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Posted by aquapiscescusp
I've never told anyone "I am in love with you". I have loved and have said I love you to my significant other but like you I can love alot of people and animals. Have you ever said, I'm in love with you?

Yes, I have said it to one person. He made me feel so comfortable with everything and let me be myself with no judgments. That situation is still weird to me, how it all went down and it's done now (at least for me). And to be so in love with someone and then to know that I will and can never be like that with them, no matter what happens in the future.

What are you thinking about? Are you contemplating this because of something that's going on with or around you?

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Yes, I am contemplating certain things that make me question this love deal :O)

Posted by NotYourAverageAquarius

Posted by aquapiscescusp
Do they mean the same thing to you all?

I love you = I choose to love you - I love you for a reason - I love my car because it's economical, I love my shoes because they are comfortable, I love you because you have been faithful and shown love to me and are loyal to me.

I am in love with you = Equals the true feeling of love - the elation of love. The feeling that can be fleeting but in a true loving relationship always returns.

Which is better well I dunno.... you are talking about semantics here after all. I would say to tell someone that you love them..

a) Represents serious feelings. Ones that you don't always feel and that make you feel needed and wanted.

b) But it also represents the choice to love someone even when those feelings aren't present. Because they will never always be. But true love will always have those feelings return no matter what. At the end of the day, we all think of love in a very selfish way. Love is something you do without expecting something necessarily in return.

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Maybe it's like this

I love you = I choose to love you
I'm in love with you = it chooses me

@aquacusp true you have those feeling if someone wasn't choosing to love you 🙂

was*

Posted by NotYourAverageAquarius
@aquacusp true you have those feeling if someone wasn't choosing to love you 🙂

I think... it has happened that I've fallen in love with the person who chose me. What about you?

Yeah I like that NYAA said 🙂

I think I love you is a conscious decision to love someone whilst I'm in love with you is the realisation that the truly appreciate the bond you have therefore loving that person.

I love you ack!!! I Perfer I like you alot lol. I love you gives some peeps the license to cheat abuse and treat horridly. You never mistreat someone you like. Back to topic and off my soup box.

Posted by NotYourAverageAquarius

Posted by aquapiscescusp
Do they mean the same thing to you all?

I love you = I choose to love you - I love you for a reason - I love my car because it's economical, I love my shoes because they are comfortable, I love you because you have been faithful and shown love to me and are loyal to me.

I am in love with you = Equals the true feeling of love - the elation of love. The feeling that can be fleeting but in a true loving relationship always returns.

Which is better well I dunno.... you are talking about semantics here after all. I would say to tell someone that you love them..

a) Represents serious feelings. Ones that you don't always feel and that make you feel needed and wanted.

b) But it also represents the choice to love someone even when those feelings aren't present. Because they will never always be. But true love will always have those feelings return no matter what. At the end of the day, we all think of love in a very selfish way. Love is something you do without expecting something necessarily in return.

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Well said and I agree as that is what I would have said myself.

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Posted by NotYourAverageAquarius
@aquacusp true you have those feeling if someone wasn't choosing to love you 🙂

I think... it has happened that I've fallen in love with the person who chose me. What about you?

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Well I'm happy for you... that feeling is pretty awesome.

Im single sOoOooO....

It would seem soOooOoooO 😉

love is love is love is love.

I can love the rain, the sky, the mountains and my favourite teddy bear.

But love is love is love is loooooveeeeee....

like you're high on some serious fantastic stuff only found in other worlds, but super sober.

love is an aphrodiasic.

with the right person of course. 🙂