I can live without it.. but i would rather not.. its the best thing in the world loving someone and being loved heh

you can. i do it everyday.

If you didn't love life, then you wouldn't live it. Love is why we are still alive because if you could live iwthout it you wouldn't be here anymore. The opposite of love is hate so if you didn't love then you would hate so why continue to live your life anyways.

I don't think anyone could live without a type of real love not love for tangiable things. We say we could but we haven't truely experienced life without love so we can't say that we could live without it.

I agree.. when many ppl read this topic, they think of love as in with the opposite sex, but there's also love for friends, family, tangible things like mentioned above, and love for oneself

Without love for life and for oneself, we truly cannot live.. thats why ppl commit suicide because they have lost their love of life and have nothing left to love or hold on to

Hmm... same I guess. But I hate conditional relationships.



Yes, it's the "greatest" feeling when it's returned. But I'm a single player.



Everything depends on definition. What is your definition of love?
There's sex, adoration, admiration, and liking.
I can live without sex. I can live without a husband (definitely so) and boyfriends. It would be very hard for me to live without the minor joys in life, though. Like wind. I love the feeling of the wind. I like rice. I'd hate never having a grain of rice to eat ever again. I wouldn't want to live without close plantonic friends, but I could, and still be happy, but not as happy as with them.

I don't know if I could.. I live with relatively little love.. but.. none?

... Life allows love to exist foremost, therefore, life itself is the reason to live.

But for the rest that's why I said it depends on perspective. For some, in life, they find love; for others, in love they find life.


Love and hate are passions. If a person loves to hate, he/she still has passion.

Not everyone wants/needs to be loved or cared about.
Even if you want or need that, you physically COULD live.

So, yes...technically you CAN live without love.

it depends on what kind of love. if it's the love you get from your family, you can't live without it. if it's the kind you get from somone else, you can, but never want to.

no i cannot. right now im single, but ive been so lonely lately...i really want a boyfriend. i cant imagine myself, as an adult, waking up every morning with nobody. I want a guy that i can share my life with..who understands me...and in my eyes, is the perfect man.

Sure, but then you'd have a very short, meaningless life.

nop , i dont think so.

I don't really think anyone truly lives without love. I mean, I love drawing. I love my friends. I love my kitties. Shoot, I love all kitties. I love dancing. i love singing. everyone has one little thing they are passionate about. Even if its just living. Some people just love to be alive. Its still a love. So in that sense, I'd have to say no.

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At the same time, if we mean love to or from another person, then its entirely possible. There are people who have had their entire family and friend turn their backs on them. So then you are without people love. Some would go searchin for it, some would feel they are better off alone. And they may be right. Also, there are those who may live without experiencing love at all. Who maybe were born out in the middle of nowhere and their parents died. Who knows. But they may be all alone and self sufficient and never really experience the love of another. So it depends.



And thats not really true. None of my family loves my mother. Before I was born she was turned away and cast out upon, because they are all a bunch of Over Christian hyporcritcal judmental people, and looked down upon my mom for having sex before marriage, and cuz she had a drug problem, and instead of like what a family should do, which is love and support poeple thru their hard times, my family prefers to turn its back and those they feel are beneath them. bUt she lived fine on her own (aka without family, not without friends) for years before I was born. now Lord knows, I love my mom, and she knows that, and her life is so much better now that I'm a part of it, but still, she survived, and it made her stronger.

You can breathe, you can move, you can eat and carry out your daily routine, but I don't consider that really living. Without love you have nothing to live for, whether it's love for a person, a pet, a hobby, a posession etc.

You need love to live, but not to exist.

i can't. i know that if i didn't know God's love, i'd be in a disastrous situation right now. i believe that because God loves me, i, in turn, can love other people around me =] and yeah, i definitely love doing things too such as vectoring, and i LOVE snow.

Loneliness is not being "unliving." Everyone at some point or another has lost someone close and feels that way. But life still goes on.
Plus, there's no such thing as the perfect man (or perfect somebody at all for that matter). Even if he seems perfect in your eyes, he'll probably have some flaws you could live without. But imperfect is okay.



Living without love doesn't shorten your life span...lol.
And if you're talking about love from another person, I think you can live without that. There are other sources of substantial love.



I agree with you.



I couldn't have said it better! You don't need love to exist, but to live you do! But still you do not need "people love" to live.

according to your defintion, yes, everyone can live without love. but if you are all alone in the world and NO ONE loves you, you will probably get depressed and kill yourself or block yourself away from the whole world.

Though I don't believe in the way of life that your mother chose, I believe her to be a wonderful human being. It is an incredible thing your mother has accomplished... though I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that.



If loneliness is not "unliving", then what is living? Is breathing, eating, taking showers truly living?

Can anyone truly know how to live, without ever knowing love?

If so, what is a good life and what is an easy life? Just good and easy breathing? Just good and easy existence?



Wanna bet? It has been proven otherwise.

I'll give you a heads up: read on behavioral psychology experiments.

It may not be the case with all human beings, but for the most of us, it is true.



I've already explained:



If your goal in life is to exist, you most likely have passion for it.

you cannot live with out love.. love is and always part of who we are. Love is like air it is all around us. If you have love, you would have trouble on describing the relationship between 2 loving people. Love stops people from deprestion. Even though sometimes it can cause drama, it can help in the end. Because love is endless through time and there is no stop to love.

physically - yes.
emotionally - not really, at least you wouldn't fully live. thats what i believe.

I truly cannot. I can't handle being alone. It just doesn't work. I wouldn't just automatically die without it, but I wouldn't be around very long. Emotionally I'd be dead right away.. physically I'd be dead in a few weeks.

Not knowing love is like not knowing how to breathe. Granted, you wouldn't die right away, but you wouldn't truely be alive. If no one loved you.. how could you go on? I'm not necessarily talking about JUST one kind of love when I say that. It could be anything. Love for a pet, a family member, a friend, a significant other.

I think that I wouldn't be able to live without love. Well, I know I could live, but put it this way: I'd definitely, definitely rather not.

no, love contributes to happiness, happiness sometimes bases on love, and happiness is the main point in life.

yeah, that's what I think too. I don't know, I need it. Like with family, friends, etc.

Yeah I can't live without Love too. Because when there's no one to love you, you felt like a loner and feeling like there's no one out there loving you and everyone is just going in their own independent sides... so yeah I would feel very lonely like I'm the only person who wants to get to know people.