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Love is such a powerful emotion and feeling, it should never be defined by a few words that will never do justice in describing all that love truly is. For that reason alone, it is safer to keep love as something subjective, something that is unique to the person experiencing it, not something poorly summed up into a sentence found in Webster. The moment we are able to accurately define what love is through a definition, is the same moment that any true meaning behind it is lost.

Love is a huge trial and error process passed on from relationship to relationship. Out of all the relationships we have in life, interpersonal, family, and friendship, the type of love we experience in each relationship stratus differs greatly from the next. We love our family because that is the only way we grow up knowing how to feel about them. Sure, we may love some family members more than others but, some form of love is constant throughout our family tree's. We love our friends in an entirely different way than we love our family and partners. Love for our friends is more of an unspoken connection. We love our friends, and would never want to loose the true one's, but we're not exactly going around saying that we love them. In that sense, friendship can almost be seen more as an expressed appreciation to have them with an unspoken sense of love for them. Interpersonal relationships, by far are the most difficult relationship stratus to experience love. We may have many serious relationships in our lives, each one leaving us thinking we loved the person but the moment it is over we're left wondering if we ever loved them at all.

It is the relationships we walk away from with a sense of "the one who got away" that can more than likely be interpreted as a true love. The relationships where we pick our brain and question our sanity as to why we were ever with the person are the one's where love was probably misinterpreted for another emotion, usually lust. Lust and love have many parallels and is easy to see why they are often confused. When you're "in lust," you love what a person can do for or to you, leaving people under the impression that they are in love but if they really thought about it, they would probably realize they don't actually love the person, just what the person is capable of. Being in love, in the simplest of terms, is when you unconditionally accept and like all that another person is, represents, does, believes in etc. Love is by far based on the whole person

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