Is Love an Emotion?

Is love an emotion? To answer this question we must first understand what love means to us and does this relate to how we define emotion. Love is universal. Love cannot be measured in terms of quantity. Love is found in many relationships. It can be as personal as a man’s love for his car and as open as love for a country. Love is how the way in which a man and woman or a man and another man and even a woman with another women express their zest for the other. There is also the most common type of love. The love between parents to their children. This type of love knows no boundaries. This type of love is the only type of love that is blind. For every other part, “ Love isn’t blind; it only sees what matters.”

“Love is more than a feeling; it's a state of mind.” Lisa Grude. When one is in love, nothing is the same forever. The cloud of love eternally covers whatever one had ever perceived of the world. This decision, if made from the heart will outlast anything. For any problem for any relationship, although this may sound cheesy, love is the bond that will make any problem disappear. That is, if what the two people have is true love.

However, does love qualify to be regarded as an emotion? Or even, does emotion be a good enough way to represent true love. The specific definition of emotion is difficult to qualify, as it is a completely subjective experience. To me, emotion is any strong feeling. However, does love qualify as a strong feeling? Emotions are always related to words such as happiness, sadness, elation, and irritation. Do these feelings qualify as the same category as love?

To me, the answer is no. I do not believe that love is a category, which applies in the same field as an emotion. These are characteristics one feels, which can alter from one moment to another. However, we cannot change our love for another. Assuming that it is true love, when a person is in love, he or she cannot simply fall out of it in an instant. Usually when we stop to love someone. That is someone we once truly loved, it is only resulting from a radical life change.

In scientific terms, love is not a variable factor. It is the only constant in the experiment of life.