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Some don't pretend, they honestly believe it does exist. Whether it does or not is irrelevant toward what they believe.

call it as you wish, thats just a label.

it seems pretty real, from what i have seen, people get fucking insane, trust me.

Go tell that to these loons. 

That actually sounds kind of fun.

by Machiavelli

It doesn't exist. It's called infatuation, followed up by a decision to stay with the person to fuck them. Why do people pretend otherwise?

The thing about infatuation, is that it's temporary.  A short phase that's easily replaceable, allowing the beholder to move on with or without any kind of satisfaction prior to its duration.

Like infatuation, love isn't an emotion. Both love and infatuation invoke all the positive and negative emotions, but only one of them really maintain a lasting impression. With that in mind it's easy to see which of our subjects are capable of doing any real damage.

Are some born from infatuation ? Absolutely. The child in many of those cases may witness the magic between his/her parents has been dissolved, while the parents are left being friends or enemies, or one of them is left in emotional distress. It all depends which state of being the parent was/is in, which is either love or the temporarily infatuated state of being.

For you Machiavelli,  At this point in time or if ever, I can understand why love might not seem to exist, and yes I'm noting a common attribute in bipolar relationships, which is valuation and devaluation for those who are close enough to you. When you devalue someone you once thought highly of, it might be difficult to determine your previous state of being toward them. The devalued may try to patch things up, but by that point all that will do is turn you off even more so you'll push, them.

The ones that stick around for chat and remain available to get together even if you freaked them out, are the ones who love you. You may not like them at the moment or ever again. It's interesting when bipolar minds regret cutting some people loose, or repair bridges cause if it were infatuation in that case, why would one bother to pick up and carry on ? Perhaps a bipolar mind regrets cutting loose an individual, as rarely as love strikes. Like them or not, know thy keepers.

   :'(

Maybe they see things differently than you do, and are not afraid to open themselves to possibilities, and learn and grow.

Why limit yourself with such a narrow outlook?

You can say it doesn't exist, for the same reason they can say it does.  Because there's no clear cut, set in stone definition.  Everybody makes up their own.  And whatever definition you've given to it, could easily be something that doesn't exist.  That doesn't mean that when other people talk about love, that they're being delusional.

(Though I'll grant you, most people's definitions of love don't quite sync up with the things that they use that word to refer to.)

Of course love exists. Just because you never felt it, does not mean it doesn't exist. Don't you think the concept "love", which exists in all the languages and cultures of the world, was created for a reason?

The concept love is more real than the concept psychopathy.