You'd take a bullet for them.

They are perfect in every way in your eyes.

It's how your heart feels every time you hear their name...or when you hear them talk to you. It's knowing and accepting not just their good qualities, but their flaws as well and loving them regardless. You can be yourself around them, and don't have to worry about impressing them. Because they think you look just as beautiful in sweats as you do in a cocktail dress.

When they make you change, they make you want to be better, when you accept him with his qualities and defects, when you get disappointed in him and you realize your feelings don't change and you still love him just as much as you did before, when you lose sense of time and everything around you suddenly doesn't matter, your world changes. But the best answer is you just know. You just do. This is my opinion at least =]

Nobodies perfect, and i doubt you would ever see anyone as perfect just because you're 'in love' with them. You accept their faults/put up with them because you care about them enough to do so. I'm not sure what 'true love' is or when you know you are in it. But I do not believe it is like the movies, because life is hard. No point in sugar coating it, love is amazing, but its difficult. I would say the answer is you never really know when you are 'in love'. If you choose to commit yourself to someone, look after them and support them, put them first. You should be fairly confident in the fact that you care about them alot. Judge it by your standard, not anybody elses :)

Love is knowing all the things you don't like about that person, but still wanting to be with them in spite of all that. When you love someone you want what's best for them. When you're infatuated, you're simply thinking of yourself.

there can't be any sign or anything....you just feel it <3

I read a quote, once, I think from Elizabeth Barrett Browning:

"I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you."

It's love when both partners bring out the best in each other, when loving the other person makes you feel like you've become the best "you" you've ever been, even on the bad days.

when the stuff that annoys u in other ppl doesnt bother u in ur other half

Being "in love" is thinking everything about that person is amazing in every single way. Even if they annoy you sometimes, it doesn't affect you hardly at all beacause your heart won't let it. Or when you get SO mad at them for something stupod(or not) and then the next time you even just hear their voice all the anger or annoyance or frustration or Whatever just melts away.

Love is when, even though you KNOW he's an emotional wreck, not ready to commit, and with no signs that it will happen any time soon, you still can't stand the idea of being without him, and you're willing to wait with him and be patient until he is ready to love you back.
No matter how long it takes.
:)

Love is realising that they are not perfect, nor will they ever be, but being able to deeply care beyond their imperfections, because you believe they are truly worthwhile. :)

love is knowing that when you first see them, really see him and look him in the eye, you dnt see yourself with anyone else besides that person .. you dnt wanna be away from him and you hate the feeling of not being in his arms .. when you look at the person and everyone and everything around you disappear and all you see is him .. when you hear or see his name you smile .. just thinking about him puts a smile on your face .. even when he pisses you off you still go back to him even though everyone else is telling you to just move on and you know that no matter what, even after two years of not being together, you still go back to him as if nothing has changed ! = )

im in love.. i dont know how it started but now that i try to crush on another guy i get his image in my head and start to think bout him..

Love is not the same for every person. But for me love is when the first time I talked to him I was too lost to even hear his name. It's when ever since that day all that has been on my mind is him. It's when you've been with them that long that you know all their faults and everything they do wrong and you can write it down on a list but it still wouldn't mean a thing because you love them. Love is realising that you yourself have changed without realising it. Love is becoming a better person and always being pushed to be the best person you can be. Love is being through the lowest lows and the highest highs together and though it takes time to get over the lows it goes away. Love is when you fight with him, but the whole time you know it's pointless and you make up soon after. Love is your eyes not ever straying from that one person. Love is doing the most ridiculous things, just because your with him. And finally I think that love is caring more and more deeply every day and smiling everytime you think of him.

i know what you mean. thanks for posting the question, because i'm in the same boat, and reading these comments made me realise that i do love him, and even though i'm annoyed at him right now, there is something in my heart and mind telling me that i can't let him go. he has helped me through so much, and still is, yet i don't know what he thinks of me. i think that is the hard part. but i guess that if you know they have a flaw, well, from personal experience. he smokes, and i used to go, eww, that's disguisting, though one day, i saw him with a lady he works with and i thought, 'ewww, she's smoking', saw him and i was like 'oh, he's on a smoko break.' even though i hate it, i've come to accept the fact that he smokes.
as people have said before, you just feel it.

I keep coming back to 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 where it talks about everything that love is. When you are really in love with someone, and they are really in love with you...you should be able to look at this and say EXACTLY!!!!!!!! Finally, something that puts into words how I feel about this person and this feeling I have...I know that this is usually a litmus test for me and relationships I am in.

I think love is when you put him before yourself, like someone above said you'd take a bullet for them, but think of it as a more logical thing. If you really love someone you would do anything for them to be happy. You cant wait to see them even when your with them all the time. Even if you are just going to the store and you have fun just because your with them. When you regret ever having sex with anyone else but him.

when it`s love...you just know. :)

Love is when you decide that being in love will ruin things, and then care about that person passionately anyway. Love is something that takes time to develop (I don't mean years, I just mean more than a heartbeat) and an infatuation can happen almost instantly. Love is when you understand every word they say, and in an infatuation, you put words in their mouth for them to say. And, most importantly, love is reciprocated somehow. I don't mean that this necessitates a relationship, I just mean that you're getting signals back to indicate that there's something going on over there. An infatuation lives off your flesh and your mind, while love, if not fuel by another, can be easily lost. Love makes you notice all the flaws, but love them and see them as making the person more perfect. Infatuation makes you notice no flaws until it is far too late.

In general, to me, love is never having to say you're sorry. Because you know the person enough that they know you're sorry and will accept your faults and you don't need to be sorry for making a mistake. You don't have to encourage an apology, it's already been said. It's doing whatever you do that makes you who you are, and them not being bothered, or offended, or downgrading to it. You don't have to apologize for who you are. They take you as you are, all your faults and failures.

As much as I want to participate in this topic, I must say that I don't even know how to describe love in my own version. 5 boyfriends in almost 8 years, I've only feel closet to love just one time. I think that what matter is you still have your guy beside you and that you still happy with each other. I think that's pretty enough.