when you feel like barfing everytime u see his face or hear his voice.

and when you literally feel like your high on something after/during a makeout session, hence the need to go to rehab once its over

I knew I was in love on my way home from our first date. I didn't think it was real (or I guess I just didn't admit it to myself) until my sister told me I was acting goofy, and I couldn't say "oh come on, I'm not in love" without a huge grin.

when I let myself really relax around him, no makeup, farting, licking my fingers after eating, you know the real stuff women do.

when i wake up in the middle of the night to cover his shoulders with the blanket and watch him sleep for a second and have the sudden urge to kiss his forehead...and there's no better place i the world

When he starts snoring and you roll over to stare at him with a huge grin on your face.

u know uve fallen hard when u cant eat or sleep..it sounds so cliche but people say it for a reason.also when things u normally thought were annoying suddenly are cute. and finally when u feel so lucky that u feel sorry for everyone else who isnt as in love as u. u really stop thinking straight.

when you can't imagine your life without them

When you realize that before you do anything you consider how it will affect him. When you start using "we" instead of "me" without thinking about it. When you can picture yourself growing old with him.

hmm, this is a tough one, but.. I think you know for sure that you're in love when it lasts. kinda the "only time will tell" kinda thing.

When I knew I was in love was after the first nite I slept over at my boyfriend's house. (No I didn't really sleep with him, I just fell asleep next to him) I woke up and he actually told me "I love you." I just thought he was sleeping. But I got to thinking well if he did say it in his sleep then he must mean it. I melted right then. We were only together a week before I knew I wouldn't be with anyone else besides him for the rest of my life. After a month of dating we planned to elope, but I ended up getting knocked up. And needless to say we are happily married 2 years after the fact, and have a wonderful little girl who inspires us everyday. Yes we are a very sappy couple who honestly believe in true love and soul mates.

I knew I was in love with my fiance when, after about a month and a half of dating (and being glued to each other's side the entire time), he went to visit his dad for a week and I missed him like CRAZY. It got so bad that I took to sniffing his deodorant - he'd left it in my bathroom, haha!

I think love is devotion without doubt. You truly never question how you feel about each other, and you feel safe in that.

Prior to dating my current boyfriend I had never dated anyone seriously. I was hooking up with this one guy for about 2 months a year and a half before meeting my boyfriend. I thought I was madly in love with this guy that I had been hooking up with and became all sorts of crazy about it because he clearly did not feel the same way. I was in a downward spiral for about a year post that "relationship" and then started feeling like a person again.

Then I met my current boyfriend (who i've been with for 8 months now) and everything just felt right. He treated me really well, I got along with all of his friends and he mine, we just connected. I felt like I loved him about 2 months into our relationship but I was scared to say anything because I had never felt the way I had felt with him with anyone else. So about 3 months into the relationship we were hanging around my place one day while my housemates were out grocery shopping and he kissed me, stared into my eyes and just said "I love you." It was the first time anyone romantically said that to me and I just melted. I said it back and we had one of the best kisses of our relationship.

Now 5 months after the fact we are still giddy around one another but in a very comfortable way. We have "sleepovers" 4-5 days a week and when I wake up next to him and just glance at him while he is sleeping I know that I am in a sense...home. I can't imagine being with anyone but him since I really never had. These months have also made me realize how superficial that first "love" that I had was. It was lust and he didn't even feel the same way.

Now that I have experienced/am experiencing love first hand I know that it is the most amazing thing ever. I have never felt so comfortable around anyone and he is my best friend. I say that other people are my best friends, but they don't even know as much as him about my life.

I just love..love, so much and he is away visiting his sister from today until Sunday and I already miss him.

I like what VicVicVictoriaa said. Before meeting my husband I was in a pretty serious relationship and we were crazy about each other, but it didn't last and other things got in the way, things that shouldn't have mattered if we really loved each other. With my husband now, it's a different kind of love, it's not all fireworks 24/7 but it's a constant, strong, deep affection, that keeps growing.

I think you know your in love when that person becomes, in a sense, your home. It doesn't matter where you are, when your with that person you feel at home where you are safe, loved and comfortable.

My mom always say "First you fall in love and then you Learn to love." Love is Work! And I know I am in love because I continue to work everyday for my relationship. I want to be a better person and I want the best for my boyfriend and I (Together 3 1/2 yrs this Oct.). But by far the BEST saying I have heard for "Knowing when you are in love" came from Chris Rock..."If you have never thought about killing your spouse-you're not in love! If you haven't had the knife in your hand and started walking their way-you're not in love!" LMAO!! Ain't it the truth!

Just you can be yourself..and you feel at peace when you are with them. Sounds lame..but whole (not because you were missing something before but somehow being together has made two of better)? Like everything is great...eventhough you fight sometimes you know things will be ok.

Its too hard explain.
But basically, you know you love that person when you can't picture your life without them.

or even if they have hurt you, you still forgive them and except them as they are.

My ex, I love him, but its over now. but I still talk to him. In the beginning I didn't love him but after years of being together, they grow on you.

My new bf, not.

he is a good guy but my heart isn't there yet. Maybe it will be in a few months.

we will see....

Words cannot describe it. Being with that person makes everything else in your life "better". The job doesn't suck as much, traffic isn't such a pain etc. You feel like the piece of you that was always missing, is found. You feel "complete". That no matter the times, good or bad, you realize that this is the person that you should belong with. That every minute, every second you're with them, you cherish.

That when you have to go, (work, etc.) That it pains you to have to say goodbye to them. That every time you get a phone call, TEXT or an email, it makes your day. When the next time you see them you get butterflies in you stomach. I get them every time I see her and it's been over a year.

There's much more but for now, that what being in Love, means to me.

That's what Tammy does to me.

I have no friggin' idea. I haven't been in love but I assume that it's when through the good stuff and bad, you still want that person by your side holding your hand.

Dan Savage once said, "You'll only know it was true love when you're 80 years old and wiping their ass because they can't do it themselves."

I realize that's a bit extreme, but I like the sentiment behind it. I have been "in love" many times. It's easy. Loving someone is the hard part.

As for when I knew I loved my current boyfriend, I can't remember. It was so long ago. I think it was when he told me he loved me and I just couldn't stop smiling. I didn't say it right then though.

I think you're in love when you get "butterflies" around them, but at the same time you are comfortable being yourself around them. If you get "butterflies" but you can't be 100% yourself or "real" around them, then it's just lust. If you can be yourself around them but there are no "butterflies," then it's just friendship. If you have both, then that to me is love

love to me is knowing that what ever happens with the other person (to a point) you can trust them and you will both keep working hard and sacrificing things for each other

For me.. right now.. in my very very young relationship, the love that i feel is seeing things that he does that would normally bother me to the point of distancing myself from him, and liking it. he snores SO LOUDLY. but it doesn't really bother me. He's a big guy,he's not skinny, but hugs from him are amazing.

and he may not be the same "size" as my past guys, but there's something about the way he looks at me and touches me that really compensates for it.

I spend nights with him and hate saying goodbye.
I visit him after work only 4 days of the week, because my sister bugs me if i do it more.
We became friends first, and I didn't really see him in any sort of way other than a friend until halloween this year. now i honestly cannot get enough of him, and don't see that diminishing anytime soon.

I just miss him every time I'm away from him and I crave to be with him. We can just sit there and do nothing at all and I'm just so happy and feel like I'm on cloud 9. Seriously, like the others, I cannot imagine my life without him in it. I love him so much!

true true..falling into love does mean sumthing diff to every1.....to me..i havent rlly found out when u fall in love or how.....ah well....i've got my ideals...

i think that it's a feeling. i realized that i was in love with my fiance when i realized that i could spend all the time in the world with him and laugh my head off, or when i was stuck in the hospital and he was the ONLY person that i wanted to see ....and he flew from another state to see me.

I'll get back to you when I figure it out...

When you used to feel like complete crap and didn't see past today, felt like dying and didn't care about having a future, but now going through life and knowing this person, you want a family, kids, spend time with them. You can now see yourself growing old until you're 124years old. Where you don't know if you can survive if they died. When your literally skips a beat when they call. Where you smile just because you get to hear their voice. Where you can't go a day without thinking about them. Where you want to make sure they are happy and never have to cry sad tears. Where you think their the most beautiful woman in the world and when you look at another, they could never be as attractive or elegant as her. Where every time you think about her you can't help but smile. If you could you would buy her the world, give her anything her heart desires. Where you use "we" or "our" instead of my/mine/your. Where you know her shoe size, underwear size, bra size, pants and shirt size, favorite color, food, drink, movies, music. Where you can go to sleep with her and actually be soothed with the sound of her snoring. No matter what, you're there for her and support her. You can let her borrow anything and not care. You can let her drive your car. You don't care if she loses something valuable of yours, because she is more important than any object in this world. Where you can comfortable share finances, trust her with your credit card, debit card, social security number. Where you can trust her even with your online banking password. Where no matter how many words you try to use to describe how you love them, no matter what actions you try to show, it seems like it will never express how much you really are in love with them. I could go on forever, so I'll just stop.

You just know. It's indescribable.

When you haven't said "I love you" yet, but the words are about to burst out of you everytime you open your mouth, and you think if you don't say it soon you will explode, and you don't care what he thinks about those words once you have said them.

Also when you get almost electric currents through your body whenever the two of you even so much as accidentally brush arms.

When someone rude says something about you thinking you can't hear, and you are embarrassed, so you tell him you don't want to take the next elevator, and he says, loudly "Let's go for a stroll around the shops before we leave", puts his arm around you, stares at the rude people, and then once out of eye shot, just gives you a huge hug and doesn't mention it ever again.

When he gives you the confidence to stop straightening your hair and wearing eyeliner

I like the description that it's a feeling of "home". I've been in love and loved before and I'd say this most recent time was the most simple and most obvious. It just felt like we were supposed to be with each other. Hard to describe.

lol depends how much i cry

If i shed tears it means i love and care

If idont..uhoh i dont give a **it!!

Catterpillar girl

"when I let myself really relax around him, no makeup, farting, licking my fingers after eating, you know the real stuff women do."

i cant stop laughing.. i think i love u!

When he will be doing some every day thing, just sitting on the computer or folding laundry, and I will just be watching him, or we will be talking or something, and suddenly I will just think "OMG, I love him so much!!!" lol. And while I'm thinking that, I just get this urge to go hug him and I just get this content happy feeling, like nothing could go wrong in the world.

And I know I love him, because I am starting to really trust him and not doubt him, which is a big deal for me.

And because I actually want to try in the relationship. Like with other people, when something was wrong I wasn't willing to compromise, I didn't care, I did what I wanted. Now, I am willing to compromise and I care if something I do affects him.

When they become an integrated part of my life. When I look at them and feel butterflies. When I want to plan things together, do things with them and spend time having fun.

I also know it's love when they stand by you through the hard times. My grandfather recently passed away and he was there throughout my grandfathers illness supporting me and then when the news came through and then at the funeral and not once made me feel like I was enroaching on his time or crying too much.

He'll also iron my trousers for me... that's love. ;p

You know you've got bitten by the bug right away, but I think it takes a couple of year for things to calm down, for you both to become comfortable enough with each other to show them your good and bad side and if after all that you still get that butterfly feeling, its love.

when i look at him during any random moment and i just feel happy inside...it's like I can feel the love for him inside of me.

Also, when I can't stop thinking about him and I can't imagine my life without him in it.

Ive thought I was in love before. I was with someone for 5 years off and on and we lived together. I think I just thought I loved him because he told me he loved me...so I just accepted it.

With my current boyfriend...I dont remember there being a time when I KNEW. I know it sounds so cheesy, but its like that savage garden song "I knew I loved you before I met you" And its true...I knew exactly what I was looking for in a person and when I met him...he was pretty much it. I never believed in love at first sight, Im a very cynical person when it comes to that sort of thing....but I would say that I fell in love with him at first sight.

when i was with him i was the happiest person in the world,every day was colourfull and bright...i believe he loves me as i love him now,but we aren't together..i feel that all my dreams are crushed and i feel only pain in my heart.. but i will always pray because of him, caz i want everything beautiful for him even with other person...

You look back at your life together and smile.

You know when you're in love when you carve his name into your arm and feel no pain.
You know when you're in love when in sex you wish to let him have all the gain.

You know you're in love when you religiously chant his name.
You know you're in love when your psychoticness cannot be tamed.

You know you're in love when you follow him home.
You know you're in love when the police are later on the phone.

You know you're in love when you own a lock of their hair
You know you're in love when it shouldn't come from there.

You know when you're in love when you have a shrine
I know i am in love although he is not mine.

We can not be together because it would be a crime
For is eighty four and I am only nine.