love

[sarah*]

what happens when u fall in love? do what ppl say about being happy dreaming and stuff like that really happens ?

[smudge]

It's the most wonderful feeling in the world! Well it was for me!

[Doolallygirl]

Was for you Smudge or still is?! I thought you were heading for 40 glorious years weren't you?! I used to get all tingly when I saw my boyfriend and butterflies in the stomach. Doesn't happen with this boyfriend but it's a different kind of love this time. This time it's a feeling that I couldn't live without him. He makes me whole. It's like if we are ever apart I'm missing an arm or something. I can't function normally. I miss him like crazy if I don't see him for a day (the two week holiday was absolute TORTURE!).

[smudge]

Whoops - thanks Doolallygirl! I meant when I 'first' fell in love with my husband! I still am of course & yes we had a wonderful Ruby Wedding Anniversary yesterday, with our family aound us & beautiful presents, flowers & cards. We shall be going on holiday soon to celebrate it too!

[smudge]

P.S. To add to my first posting - Apart from being the most wonderful feeling in the world, I couldn't eat for a week as I was so overwhelmed by it all & that first kiss -ah!

[Doolallygirl]

Congratulations, that's how I hope to still be in 40 years!

[smudge]

Thank you for your greetings Doolallygirl, I'm sure you will be together in 40 years time! Here's to the future!

[dr.pepper]

love is subjective. It's a personal experience that's different for everyone. It's not a 'true' emotion, but a combination of several backed up by cultural learning. Quite debilitating and wonderful at the same time in my experience

[rja211077]

so, Doolally. you went to Greece for 2 weeks without your boyfriend, ran up a hughe mobile bill and describe the experience as 'torture'. Altogether not the most successful of holidays then?

[zgma]

Yes, congrats Smudge! I am completely in love with my husband... sometimes he is just going about normally, and I have a wave of love for him, like whatever mannerism he just displayed was so completely characteristic of him that I just have to go up and give him a kiss. Or I hear him interacting with our son, from the other room, and he's so nice, and funny, that I have to smile and feel a little tingly. We didn't have a "sudden" falling in love... it was a process of months of being friends, learning each others' styles and liking them, and gradually having those personality styles become very endearing, just because they are part of this person that means so much to me. It gradually built, and it's still building - the longer I'm with him, the more wonderful things I notice about him.

[smudge]

Thank you zgma, I wish you all well too.

[Babe-not!]

You turn into an hysterical wreck!

[secretspirit]

In the first starry eyed stages you get all the touchy feeliness and forgetting what you're meant to be doing, not eating etc. Real love is when you know that they will be there for you whatever happens, that what you've got is worth riding out the hard times to keep and that you would die for them to live. Sorry if that's a bit deep but that's what I feel about my husband (sorry if your heads are now in the sick bucket).