what does it feel like to love and/or be loved

[Milo]

In Richard Adams's Plague Dogs there is a character introduced who reunites with his dog Snitter - as well as adopting the other dog Rowlf - and he is just a middle aged man with slippers, pipe and newspaper who lives alone, has no social life and was just devoted to his dog.

I remember reading that and thinking it was ace.

In the film they

Spoiler alert

drown, backed by gospel singing

[close]

Also I don't think I've ever felt love. I've had a long term relationship but looking back I'm not convinced. My autobiographical memory is absolute crap so I might have forgotten, although I do remember the hurt near the end of being shoved out of bed for snoring.

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

good, then bad, then broadly good again

Bit like a poo going in and out of your bottom then?

[H-O-W-L]

Terminator Salvation

[thenoise]

...and the loneliness I feel now is so much more vicious as I know exactly what I'm missing out on.

True int it. That cunt Shakespeare didn't know shit.

[jobotic]

When I think back to when I was with my danish ex it felt joyous yet calming, there was someone I could tell anything to however great or awful, and though it may sound like a cliche it did make me feel complete. Just walking along the street with her hand in mine I no longer felt alone against the world, and at the same time I wanted to do as much as I could to make her as happy as she possibly could be.

Of course it didn't last, and the final year was brutal and unpredictable and sometimes safe and warm but also brittle and harsh, and we probably should have broken up sooner than we did. But christ, even despite that I miss being in love so much, it breaks me that it didn't work out, and the loneliness I feel now is so much more vicious as I know exactly what I'm missing out on.

That must have been some pastry













(sorry, what you wrote was poignant)

[Endicott]

Bit like a poo going in and out of your bottom then?

[lauraxsynthesis]

The same as the oxytocin and endorphins you get from attending a good live comedy show, but with just the one person rather than sharing it with a room full of folks. Also in a slow burn form rather than successive big hits. And you'll never have to argue with the comedian and fellow-punters about the mortgage.

[tookish]

It can hurt a lot. Not just in unrequited or lost love but also when times are tough. My partner's dad is gravely ill and I ache with longing to fix it. All I can do is make my partner ratatouille and clean the litter boxes so he won't worry.

But beyond that hurt, there is an entire universe of joy, and a feeling of homecoming every time our lips meet.

Yes, I'm sickened at myself but fuck it, post.

[Pink Gregory]

all joking aside, it's alright really

[pancreas]

Nothing is yours any more. Everything is Gecko's.

[Brian Freeze]

Wasn't there a whole Love is . . . . thing way back when? Was Snoopy involved somehow?

Think I remember one being Love is . . .  never having to say sorry but that doesn't sound right does it?

[Cloud]

Lovely until you get dumped, then the comedown, broken dreams, feelings of inadequacy, overthinking and regrets are bloody awful.

"Better to have loved and lost"? Hmmmmmmmm

[Norton Canes]

It's like when you look into a mirror that's reflecting another mirror but every other one of the string of infinite faces you see belongs to the other person

[non capisco]

Wasn't there a whole Love is . . . . thing way back when? Was Snoopy involved somehow?

"Love is...." was two naked cartoon children. Hated the sight of that thing even as a child.

[bgmnts]

It's like when you look into a mirror that's reflecting another mirror but every other one of the string of infinite faces you see belongs to the other person

So a bit like Enter the Dragon?

This is love:

[Milo]

there is an entire universe of joy, and a feeling of homecoming every time our lips meet.

Yeah, I've definitely never had anything like that and don't think I've got the brain chemistry for it. Maybe if I took heroin.

[Norton Canes]

Or like an audio feedback loop, every time you speak to the other person your words bounce back and then back to them and back again and again until they reach a howling crescendo

[Norton Canes]

Or... or that Jan Švankmajer animation where the two faces constantly eat the other and regurgitate them in smaller and smaller particles

[Norton Canes]

Basically, you disassemble each other to the particulate level.

Am I selling this?

[Milo]

Wonder if there's a neurodiversity thing. Some people can barely experience it, most people experience it a bit, some people experience it really strongly and it's those ones that write all the bloody poetry.

[Brian Freeze]

"Love is...." was two naked cartoon children. Hated the sight of that thing even as a child.

Oh god, you're right. Do you reckon they're still together?

The Snoopy ones must have been an homage.

[Dex Sawash]

[H-O-W-L]

Terminator Genisys

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

been dating someone new for the past five months now after a messy year following a breakup of a seven year relationship and it's gotten to be very lovey after some of my own initial doubt.

being loved is hard to accept sometimes, but if you let it in it's like a ray of sunshine and lovely PINT O BEER

[ros vulgaris]

I've had moments where I've felt genuine love but they're always ephemeral. Maybe a lot of queers feel the same way, where there's no social expectation to stick in with it for the same of a family and many just seem to want to keep their sex lives open.

The last time I said "I love you" to someone I was dating it was just met back with "no you don't." Maybe they knew more than I did.

[jfjnpxmy]

Kind of like doing heroin, only milder and it lasts longer.

[H-O-W-L]

T2-3D: Battle Across Time

[thenoise]

"no you don't"

Naughty naughty naughty!

[Bartholomew J Krishna]

About six out of ten.

[Proactive]

The best way I can describe it is that it feels like your willy is laughing. Hope this helps.