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08/02/12, 02:37 PM
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What does falling in love feel like to you?
A Neil Gaiman quote sums it fairly good.
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”
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08/02/12, 02:50 PM
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Borrowing this, hope that is okay.
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08/02/12, 03:18 PM
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well it does hurt when the other makes a decision to not be with you and thats awful.makes feel like a gutted fish or deer.
but falling in love can be great.....the trick is finding a person that wants to be a team with you day in and day out forever.marriage vows,...for better or worse...life is rocky..wished folks would stick like glue to each other.
but not if one is being abused in any shape or form.
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08/02/12, 03:24 PM
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i went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life,.......,and not,when i came to die,discover that i had not lived...Henry David Thoreau
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08/02/12, 03:25 PM
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i went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life,.......,and not,when i came to die,discover that i had not lived...Henry David Thoreau
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08/02/12, 03:38 PM
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Well falling in love is kinda like feeling a n being broke sleeping on couch at my moms house coming up with thousands of dollars for lawyers missing all my comfy stuff all my cooking stuff couches etc... I guess that's I get for I got.
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08/02/12, 03:45 PM
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It feels great when it's good and awful when it ends.
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08/02/12, 04:01 PM
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I can't help but think what we call love is just adrenaline. Your heart is racing, breathing is rapid, etc. when you are close to your heart's desire, you are 'in love.' Whereas loving someone is much more sustainable and joyful. Maybe initially, there wasn't that zippedy do-dah fireworks scenario but you liked and respected them. That's a great place to start with a solid foundation to build on. But then again, I don't have much of a romantic streak. 
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08/02/12, 04:08 PM
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Falling in love is a feeling that is self-generated, focusing on the one you love. You can always fall in love again, and again, and again...... But, every time you trot out that feeling, its a little more torn and tattered, until one day, you "fall in love" and the object of your desire looks real hard at your bruised, battered, abused, jaded "love" and says "What is this piece of crap you're offering me?" After that, you got nothing left to give.
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08/02/12, 04:12 PM
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Couldntna said it better Z
And people want to know why I quit looking for, and just settled for looking at.
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08/02/12, 04:50 PM
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Depending on the level of romantic level of the relationship I find that it falls in between Perls "I do my thing and you do yours" composition and Fredrich Nietzche' behold I the most lonesome and yet to be most envied composition of the dead speaking to the living from Thus Spake Zaruthustra .
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08/02/12, 04:58 PM
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08/02/12, 05:09 PM
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I think it feels like wanting to be with the person 90 percent of the time and missing them the other 10 percent. Pretty great to be in love and pretty bad when you loose it
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08/02/12, 05:14 PM
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Love can feel like the best thing in the world and the worst... depending on the outcome. I guess if you don't put yourself out there and allow yourself to become vunerable then you will never experience the pain of losing it or the joy of having it. It's hard to open up and allow another person the opportunity to hurt you but that's the price you pay for loving someone.
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08/02/12, 05:18 PM
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Seriously though I think it's something vulcans can do. Two minds meshed together. I don't think it's constantly saying I love you or buying or even doing things constantly. Is a natural balance. If there isn't natural balance u are only one in love. But yea wanting to come home n spend time with space as well. I guess love is same as anything else in life try not upset natural order of things.
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08/02/12, 05:29 PM
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Word of advice, don't re post this on your facebook wall, people will think you have been hurt and start giving you well wishes and stuff.
There is some truth to this however, and I am still thinking about how I am processing it.
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08/02/12, 06:52 PM
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I'm reminded of an Emmylou Harris song that goes.."love is pretty when love is new".
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08/02/12, 07:15 PM
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Love is, you want to seeheartastefeel this another soul, you're let loose in the wilderness of their are and sometimes you run flat out fast as you can over the green green hills till you can't run one more step, then you lie on your belly and stare at the bottom of a little stream at the two inch salmon and the giant crawdad that scutters by, the jasper, the agate, the glint of a tiny garnet in the pebbles on the bottom and plunge your head into the cold sweet water and. Just. Drink. Sometimes you come to a cliff overlooking the wide valley pelted with new spring leafed trees and a small wind that wanders through and then you jump because you can, then night comes and the full moon rises and everything is silver and alive and new and old and now and the hair rises in the back of your mind, you can't put words to it but you know it is what will be.
If you are lucky the wilderness goes on forever and mayyouneverfindafence.
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08/02/12, 08:31 PM
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It's been so long that I can't remember.
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08/02/12, 08:38 PM
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It feels like your skin is the only thing that's holding you inside your body. Without it, you'd be flying all over the place.
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