How Do You Know When You're Truly in Love?

users who have been in love: how did you know? why did/do you love them?

I think so illogically about my boyfriend. He’s literally obsessed with me but I still get anxious when he doesn’t respond to my texts despite logic. I love him because he truly cares about me, we have the same values, and we’re both better people and happier together. Hope this helps. Feel free to ask any questions.

@kerfuffly I’ve been “in love” many times before, I’ve had my little crushes in middle school, my obsessions in high school and then onward from that. I have always struggled with knowing if I love someone or if I’m overthinking it and maybe I don’t like them and all those things. One thing that really proved to me that I love someone is if their words/actions hurt me. Or if I find myself thinking about things they like without them being around. Or if I cry for them, I know I love them or something is actually there between me. But even now looking back I can recognize which crushes were based on nothing much but shallow things, and I recognize which relationships were unhealthy and why they were and it helps me to see what I can work on myself in how to prolong my current relationships to make them as healthy as possible.

When the first thing you want to hear or see is them, when their dumb game, tv show, or pool league starts to be your favorites too, when doing the hard things in life are not so hard with them…

i only knew i was in love in hindsight

I met my boyfriend during my open house party in a moment in my life when I was enjoying being single for more than 2 years but, when we were introduced each other by another friend in common we couldn’t stop staring one to each other, for some reason both had a beautiful sensation and that’s how our story started