Everybody probably views love differently, regardless of gender. To be perfectly honest I’ve never understood the concept and find it very hard to come to grasps with. As do most of the men I know…

Love is the decision to make the welfare of a person or thing a priority. This decision must be renewed regularly in some cases. A person can, of course, choose to stop loving. This is true regardless of gender.

Andy

WHATEVER!! I know for a fact that I fell in love with my ex-boyfriend because of who he is. I loved him before he even knew that I liked him. It wasn’t because I ‘loved being loved’!! WHATEVER!

because we are ao different yes we do view love differently. all women love to be loved but they also fall in love with a man. i for one am in love with someone and know that i am, i just don’t like being loved i like the feeling i get in returning the love. i am not saying all women fall in love with a man i am just saying that a lot do. men fall in love probably when they feel the most needed, i have found that the men i know who hav efallen in love did when their girl needed them the most and cried on their shoulder or just wanted to be held. in my opinion men love women because of the feeling they get by passing on the love and the feeling they get when it is returned, so though we think of love the same i guess, we still view why we fall in love differently.

_Ash

It is very possible that a man actually loves a woman whereas a woman just loves being loved, but the opposite is also possible. Many people (male and female) love being loved. It is a good feeling and when you go looking for it you often end up without it but you can fake it anyway just to feel good, and that applies to both men and women.

love is the best feeling in the world, no one can take that away from you. love is when you wake up in the morning and give your partner a smile and a kiss even if they have that nasty morning breath, or when you make them somthing to drink and have a taste 'just to make sure its just right'. i was in love one time. i loved being loved but most of all i love loven him. but then i fell soooo hard that i forgot all about my friends. and that was the worst part of my brake up with him was that i had no suport from anyone. they all were mad at me for falling in love. so what ever you do, when you fall in love and meet the person of your dreams dont forget about the ones who love you the most....you family and friends.

no, i think that the only way anyone can create a definition for love is by looking at each individual. everyone has their own views on love and their own beliefs. sitting there and having someone say that women love better than men or men love better than women is rediculous. its like saying that adults know more than teenagers. thats not necessarily the case. there may be more frequent occurances but that doesnt make it a stone fact. i know some men who have a much more romantic and caring view about love compared to some women i know and visa versa.

personally i think past expirences and how someone was raised has alot to do with how someone's views of love turn out. if you get alot of bad tastes with love, generally people turn out to become more negative and i think women are usually tied to that as "victims" which may or may not be the cause for that "women are philosophical when it comes to love" stereotype.