How Do You Know When You Are In Love?

[MissyP89]

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Yuck
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[quote name='JoyfulLife' timestamp='1327603391' post='2375759']
Can't help it; I'm a romantic. It is a beautiful song, anyway.

I take it you're not a romantic?
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Canon is probably the most washed up, overused, overdone classical songs ever (or at least the chord sequence is).

p.s. I must confess that [i]Fireproof [/i]honestly changed my life. I wouldn't call it a good movie, but it started some very important changes in me and in my current relationship.

Edited January 26, 2012 by MissyP89

[Sarah147]

It's one of my top fav romantic movies. I love the Christian theme and seeing them find God and lead each other to the Lord.

[kujo]

[quote name='JoyfulLife' timestamp='1327601802' post='2375749']


I would give this props but it won't let me.
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I'll accept your "air props." Think of it as like an air high five!

[Sarah147]

[brianthephysicist]

[quote name='kujo' timestamp='1327538525' post='2375446']
Corny and cliche as it sounds, I knew as soon as I met my fiancée. It took a little while before we could test the waters--we were both seeing other people at the time--but there was undoubtedly a feeling of eventuality to it all.

And once we were dating, everything just seemed...right. It's hard to put into words. It's like a feeling that everything was fitting into place, and she was everything I ever could have wanted, and then some! Even when we fought, there was this voice in the back of my head that told me that there wasn't a single disagreement that was worth damaging or losing our relationship. It's sort of a pressure valve, because we are both fairly strong willed.

More than anything, I know that she makes me want to be better, and I make her feel the same. She takes me as I am, as I do her. Again, it's not particularly groundbreaking, but it's absolutely how I feel.
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This.

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='JoyfulLife' timestamp='1327603391' post='2375759']
Can't help it; I'm a romantic. It is a beautiful song, anyway.



I take it you're not a romantic?
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I'm something of a romantic, I just hate that piece of music, or its popularity at least.

[LinaSt.Cecilia2772]

One of my all time favorite threads ever. I love talking about love.

For me, I've been in love with someone since I was fifteen. I know, it's VERY YOUNG, but in reality love has no age boundary. I knew him for about a year and a half before i actually met him in person because of mutual friends, but even through all that I knew something was stirring up in me about him. We met for the first time in person at a catholic youth conference of my diocese in 2010, and ever since then things have never been the same. It's been two years, we've dated off and on, and we live sort of far away from each other, but for some reason we always come back to each other. It's a never ending rollercoaster ride between us, and to be honest it hurts sometimes but that's the risk love makes us take. We have shared wonderful times and bad times together, it seems like we know eachother through, and since the very beginning we had this undoubtful connection that hasn't been broken. We have been through A LOT in the past four years, and even through the times we were necessarily "speaking", there has never been a day where i don't think about him or pray for him. One of the best things we can do for our loved ones, or our future spouses is pray for them. Love comes from the Father, it says so in 1 John 4:19, so our love for one another is a reflection of our God's love for us. I have put our relationship in the hands of God, and it's His decision to do what He wants with it. It may or may not work out, it may hurt, it may bring endless joy, but in the end it's God's will.

[Sarah147]

I love this thread!

So many BEAUTIFUL responses!

[Ed Normile]

In my case I waited till a little brunette walked up and told me we was in love.

My uncle mike, May heaven be his bed, used to say how he met his wife my aunt winnie " I was at a catholic social dance when I noticed her across the room, I cocked an eye at her, and she cocked an eye at me, and there we both stood cockeyed ! "

ed

[ContemporaryCaflicCrusader]

When my fam and friends ask me if I have a crush on someone I always tell them I don't get crushes. That frame of mind is obsolete. After being heartbroken fairly bad in high school I don't let personal feelings get in the way and allow logic to dictate whether or not I or should ask someone out or not. In my daily prayers I pray for my future wife's (Assuming she wasn't aborted and yes I bring that up to God daily prayer as well) chastity, for her to understand me and to trust me and to be able to trust me. I wouldn't date someone who doesn't have those things going for them and they'd have to put Jesus and His one, holy, catholic, and apostaolic church first in their life. But have I ever exerienced the love in the sense of heart aching, pulse poundingness... ya. I just cant afford to be crushed anymore. So having a crush isn't an option.

[got2luvjc]

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When my fam and friends ask me if I have a crush on someone I always tell them I don't get crushes. That frame of mind is obsolete. After being heartbroken fairly bad in high school I don't let personal feelings get in the way and allow logic to dictate whether or not I or should ask someone out or not. In my daily prayers I pray for my future wife's (Assuming she wasn't aborted and yes I bring that up to God daily prayer as well) chastity, for her to understand me and to trust me and to be able to trust me. I wouldn't date someone who doesn't have those things going for them and they'd have to put Jesus and His one, holy, catholic, and apostaolic church first in their life. But have I ever exerienced the love in the sense of heart aching, pulse poundingness... ya. I just cant afford to be crushed anymore. So having a crush isn't an option.
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Well put my friend

[LinaSt.Cecilia2772]

I dont know who said this quote, but it's one of the truest quotes i think i've ever heard.

"Love is a never ending act of forgiveness."

[Sarah147]

Absolutely true!

[kujo]

[quote name='ContemporaryCaflicCrusader' timestamp='1327770922' post='2376561']
When my fam and friends ask me if I have a crush on someone I always tell them I don't get crushes. That frame of mind is obsolete. After being heartbroken fairly bad in high school I don't let personal feelings get in the way and allow logic to dictate whether or not I or should ask someone out or not. In my daily prayers I pray for my future wife's (Assuming she wasn't aborted and yes I bring that up to God daily prayer as well) chastity, for her to understand me and to trust me and to be able to trust me. I wouldn't date someone who doesn't have those things going for them and they'd have to put Jesus and His one, holy, catholic, and apostaolic church first in their life. But have I ever exerienced the love in the sense of heart aching, pulse poundingness... ya. I just cant afford to be crushed anymore. So having a crush isn't an option.
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You shouldn't let someone else's mistake(s) in the past define your behavior in the present and future.

And while I am certainly at the front-end of this whole marriage thing, I can say, with all honesty, that there is nothing logical about being in love. All jokes aside, you shouldn't make your future wife carry the baggage you seem to be still lugging around. It's easy to say, but the fact remains.

(BTW, your post could have been written by a younger version of myself, which is why I am offering my opinion. Keep the faith, brother).