March 5, 2007

The Question:  How do you know when you’re in love? 

The Answer:  “The whole butterfly feeling in your stomach, and the fact that maybe you feel jealous when you see him/her talking to another guy/girl and you think there might be something going on.”

The Answer:  “When you look at that special guy or gal and your liver starts to quiver.”

The Answer:  “When he lets you use his spoon when you share a pint of Cherry Garcia.”

The Answer:  “I knew I was in love when we broke up and I just couldn’t get over him! That had never happened before. A few weeks later we got back together. He had the same story.”

The Answer:  “Are you talking about being ‘in love’ or truly loving that person? Being ‘in love’ is just a chemical reaction.”

The Answer:  “When the only thing more important is God.”

The Answer:  “That is a good question!”

The Answer:  “When she told me!”

The Answer:  “It’s really quite easy to tell when you’re in love—your heart beats faster when he/she is near, you smile all the time, no matter where you are or what you’re doing, you daydream, you want to be with that special someone all the time . . . and the list goes on. The question should have been, ‘How do you know when the one you’re with is the one you want to be committed to for the rest of your life even if you don’t really like them some days?’”

The Answer:  “When you’re in love, you have this feeling of certainty in your heart, soul, mind, and spirit that this person will be connected to you forever—no matter what comes your way, or how far apart you may have to be from them. They’re just always there. You can’t fight it, or hide it, and no one or nothing else in your life can change that feeling.”

The Answer:  “You don’t. You figure it out later. Love is not a noun; it’s a verb. If you are doing things selflessly for that special person and without receiving any benefit (and they don’t know about it), chances are you’re in Love.”

The Answer:  “When it hurts.”

The Answer:  “You’ll have to excuse me . . . I just threw up a little bit.”

The Answer:  “Melissa and I just got engaged in December, so love is something on my mind a lot these past months. We describe our compatibility by saying our relationship is spherical . . .  meaning we complete each other on all sides. If I were a square, and she a circle, we wouldn’t ever complete each other, but our love is unending; it doesn’t ever fall short. We love each other all the way around—on all sides and in all ways. It’s spherical. I can’t say it like she does. All I know is she’s right and we’re in love and I know it!”

The Answer:  “Love is easy. Commitment, marriage, til-death-do-us-part is hard. You know you’re in love when you’re willing to do all the hard stuff. Even when they’re clipping their toenails in bed, leaving their plates and bowls all over the house, and cutting their hair over the bathroom sink and not rinsing it out.”

The Answer:  “I know I’m in love with my husband of several years now because it is so hard to be away from him. I need him. And while some people think it is unhealthy, I think it is the way God wanted it to be for husbands and wives; I am dependent on him. But like my dad told me when I got married, really you grow into love. What love really is is a choice. It is a commitment that you make to always stand by or behind each other no matter what. You won’t always feel like you’re in love, but it is the assurance you have of ‘no matter what’ that is important. And the longer you are with a person, the more you understand exactly what love is and the more in love you become. Although you can never put it in the perfect words.”

The Answer:  “Well, I guess when you’re right in the middle of a huge fight, both of you can crack up laughing about nothing.”

The Answer:  “Wish I knew!” 

The Answer:  “Well, I’m not now. I’ll know I’m in love when the thought of turning my freedom over to a man doesn’t make me want to throw up.”

The Answer:  “Whenever something good or bad occurs in my life, I instantly think, ‘I’ve got to call my wife and tell her!’”

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