Today on the podcast joe and Lashanda Talk about the meaning of love.

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What is Love?

Merriam-Webster

• strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties
  
• attraction based on sexual desire: affection and tenderness felt by lovers
  
• affection based on admiration, benevolence, or common interests
  

Ideapod says: “But the main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally. It would be nice to go to bed with them, but you want them to call you on the telephone, to invite you out, etc., to tell you that they love you.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-5: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs."

Exercise

"When I say 'I love you,' I mean..."

Joe and Shanda take turns

What are things that can effect the way we understand those words?

• Being raised in a home where those words arent said
  
• Watching too much TV
  
• Traumatic experiences by those who have said this and done another thing
  

Psychology today

• Love is bigger than you are. You can invite love, but you cannot dictate how, when, and where love expresses itself. You can choose to surrender to love or not, but in the end, love strikes like lightning: unpredictable and irrefutable. You can even find yourself loving people you don't like at all. Love does not come with conditions, stipulations, addenda, or codes. Like the sun, love radiates independently of our fears and desires.