Can you feel love

I have noticed that I can not feel any love or anything else either. It may just be a symptom of my psz. Often people confuse sex with love. I do not know is just a good thing that I do not feel emotions so that I do not fall in the cycle of emotional ups and downs. Can you feel love?

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I believe myself to have ezperienced a similar situation as yours. That is as deep as I am willing to go for now.

I think I still have feelings but they are very muted.

I gone through periods where I didnā€™t feel love. I could feel anger and sorrow and euphoria. But then I ended up feeling nothing. As Iā€™ve been healing, Iā€™ve been sort of confused. I can feel ā€œlikeā€. I like certain people. The people I loved before my onset I have concern for them still. Iā€™ve been taking that little grain of concern and like and relearning love.

I donā€™t know if that makes sense. Iā€™m learning, but I think I can feel it.

i too cannot describe love,my parents love me,my brothers care about me,my family care about me but for romantic love i dont know 1 bit about it,i can feel the kindness of some woman and like every guy we had an eye for pretty ladies/woman

Yeah. Donā€™t confuse hormonal excitement with love. Mother Nature is trying to fool you to make sure sex happens.

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Actually, I used to feel a lot of love. To an extent, I still know love is there, but I donā€™t feel it as often as I used to feel it.

Jayster

Havenā€™t ā€œfelt loveā€ in a decade at leastā€¦

Fell deeply in love twice before the age of 20, the kind of love that remains with you for a lifetime. I mean my first love still wears my alien workshop t-shirt to bed at night and sheā€™s married with two kidsā€¦she put me through two years of hell and cost me my high school years but hey she did apologizeā€¦once.

But no not in ten years at leastā€¦too numb, jaded and crazy for that love thing to happen I guess. I am however looking forward to perhaps making that sacred connection again sometime in my future but who knowsā€¦most people never experience that kind of love in their lifetime and if they do they usually ruin it by getting married and starting a familyā€¦sorry.

-e

Wow, I have never not felt love as in being able to feel it for someone or something. there are a few times i felt ā€œno one loves meā€ but thatā€™s different, usually after a breakup or something of that nature.
Sex is not love. people can have sex without any love at allā€¦Sex can be an expression of love but in reality its only a small percentage of the time you spend with someone in any meaningful relationship. Like 90% or more of your time will be doing other things and showing love in other ways and thats where real love is manifest.

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Actually yes I can feel it still, I love my niece and can feel her love for me. Love is love, regardless of whether itā€™s a sexual relationship or notā€¦but as far as love in a ā€œromanticā€ context goes thatā€™s so far a thing of my youth. Hit me twice, hard, and ten years, five more relationships and a few one nighters later I long for that love of my youth but it hasnā€™t happened it all. While sex is not love, neither does a relationship guarantee love. There are a few I do miss now and then but love them I do not.

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I feel love in myself. In my children. In Carl. I feel love for close friends and family.
I have love.

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@echomoon with the 11:11 post
Wow, cool. Before I came on here just now I was thinking about this thread and knew it hadnt been posted on in a few daysā€¦because I feel love and loved right nowā€¦and there it was right at the topā€¦ :slight_smile:

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Hahaha! Is all true though. When someone has loved you and shown you and guided you to love, and you are able to reciprocate that love unto othersā€¦itā€™s magical!

Life is full of misfortune. Trials and triumphs. Constantly learning. Of all things, love is the most precious gift in this lifeā€¦ to me anyway.

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Perfectā€¦absolutely trueā€¦

This is something I have known and said for many yearsā€¦ like since the early 90s actuallyā€¦

ā€œLove is not just a feeling, it is a way of life.
Love is an action, not a word randomly tossed about.
Love is a seedā€¦it is already there, dormant. It just needs planted and it can sprout in a few days - from there it grows and blossoms.ā€

Of course there are feelings that go along with love, sometimes quite intense, but love is more than a feeling

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No, I donā€™t feel anything. A long time ago a friend taught me the value of being able to love, but Iā€™ve never felt it. I feel sort of twisted like a vine thatā€™s grown without enough water.

I think for me to feel real love for anyone they have to be perfect to me. Anytime the mess up I easily enternalize it and think of reasons why I dont or shouldnt or donā€™t love them like I think i should or do.

It is not love, but feel respect toward other people, even toward my poor alcoholic gypsy friend with whom no ā€˜whiteā€™ person wants to associate, but he knows most gypsies in my little town and nearby.In my society gypsies are called ā€˜black peopleā€™.