How important is love to you?

[Onyx]

Both serious and goofy answers welcome.

Do you believe in love?

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

[JaneDead]

Do you believe in love? -- definately

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore? --yes

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy? -- yes, and i do

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship? -- i don't believe so. but i don't have a "career" so i don't really know?

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away? -- yes. most definately.

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"? -- um this one's a weird one

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end? -- sacrifice what exactly? i can sacrifice for love/the ones i love but do you mean sacrifice *yourself* and who you are? then no.

[Guest Megalicious]

Both serious and goofy answers welcome.

Do you believe in love?

Yes, but that love at first sight thing is bullshit.

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

I guess so considering that I came back to this miserible state. I mean I left sunny, warm Los Angeles .. to come back to SNOW ... Yes when I came back in January it was fucking snowing and I was wearing Jeans and a tank top lol .. I wouldn't say I adored LA though.. as much as it has it perks .. it can be just as awful. Fake ass ppl, smog, traffic, everyone is in a HUGE hurry to get NOWHERE. But every place gets boring and old if you lived there most of your life.

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

Of course, not only family time but Dork time as well =) Because its important to him I understand that, respect it, I know it makes him happy and there is nothing better then seeing a smile on my sweeties face =)

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

No. Relationships are hard work. If things get hard you can't just give up your life/wants/needs for the sake of the relationship.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

Yes, I would try anyway. It's hard when you love someone, but if you couldnt make them happy and dont let them go .. you dont love them anyway. Thats like keeping a wild bird in cage just because you think its pretty.

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

No doubt in my mind that I would, He wouldnt even have to ask.

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No, No one is worth sacrificing myself and my happiness for. Not even someone I love .. because as much as I love him .... I love myself just as much if not more.

[kellygrrrrrl]

Both serious and goofy answers welcome.

Do you believe in love?

Conditional AND Unconditional, Yes....

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

No. I wouldn't do it. I did it before. Family & Freinds come 1st from now on.

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

I do....and so does he.

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

If I had Kids yes. But I don't, so No. We actually spend too much time together. Sometimes we drive eachother crazy and just need some girl time/guy time.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

I am not an easy person to get a long with...I know this. If you stay, you must really love me. If not, I understand....I would rather see someone happy then see them with me and miserable and my knowing it. I think that would be more damaging than them just going. Sure it would hurt.

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

I don't have a house to sell. If Mike needed $$ for treatment, he would die. Because we are broke and don't have any colateral....so I don't know how to answer this seriously.....and logically. I would sell whatever I could. Cars/Toys (Although HE might not be keen on the selling his toys for his treatment - He would KILL me if I did that :erm )

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

Yes. I love him that much. But really, there is nothing to sacrifice here.....in this case...

[Blackmail]

Both serious and goofy answers welcome.

Do you believe in love?

yes

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

yes, people are more important than cities

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

yes

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

there are too many variables in this question but overall I would say if I was sure that the girl was "the one" then yes

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

no

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

yes of course I would sell

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

yes

[The_Dark]

Yes to all

[fever blister]

Do you believe in love? im not even sure anymore, i guess

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore? yes

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy? id do it for a girl, never my family

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship? yes

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away? do that one all the time

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"? *sigh* yes (i so wish a person like thtat was real)

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end? yeppers

deep down inside under all my scales im a hopeless romantic

[Gauge]

Do you believe in love?

yes

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

it would depend on wether or not it made me happy. if i didnt, theres always the option of compromise

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

yup

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

define "too much"

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

yes

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

thats kind of an extreme answer either way but i would do whatever it took to keep them happy and healthy

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

love doesnt need to be about sacrifices

[Onyx]

Both serious and goofy answers welcome.

Do you believe in love?  Yes.

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?  Yes, but I'd give the relationship some time to be sure the love was really mutual and that we get along well together.  Sometimes what you thought was love just isn't enough.

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?  Sure would.

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?  Yes, but not before exploring other solutions.  There's no substitute for time together though.  When you're never home life's a drag.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?  Yes, but not before I tried to work things out (if they were willing to try).

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?  I'd sell everything I could.  Things can be replaced.

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?  I meant this question more as emotional sacrifices rather than material.  I'd like to say no, but in looking back over prior relationships I've given way too much of myself.  I'd like to think I've grown out of that, but I find myself slipping back into that behavior too often.  Sometimes I give too much and end up running on empty.

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[The Truth Serum]

Yes to all of them.

[Steven]

Q: Do you believe in love?

A: its about all I do beleive in.

Q: Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

A: A city is just things.....things lose their shine in time. How do you know there is not a great adventure awaiting you in this new place? Hell yes I'd move.

Q: Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

A: Been doing it for 20 years. If you cant do somethign for someone else just because it makes them happy then you aint in it for the long haul.

Q: Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

A: I'd change ANYTHING that was hurting a relationship I was committed to and beleived in.

Q: Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

A: Tricky question, because I would not be involved with someone who was a walk-awayer, as opposed to someone who was willing to work. It takes work to make things work.

Q: Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

A: stuuf is just stuff. People are forever.

Q: Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

A: The only way I'd ever lose Laura is through death. And vice versa. We live and love this way, that's why it sticks.

[Brenda Starrr]

Do you believe in love?

Yes.

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

Only if I'm moving to Detroit

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

Only if the food is good and there's lots of liquor.

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

Only if we won't starve or lose the house.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

It would be hard, but I'd try.

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

I'd sell.

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

I don't know. Most likely, yes. But who can really predict that sort of thing?

[torn asunder]

Do you believe in love?

wow - there are sooo many kinds of love...

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

depends - i'm fine with moving most anywhere, but if the person decided they were moving, whether or not i wanted to, i'd wonder if they really lvoed me or not...

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

if boring is all it is, of course! if, however, it's a bitchy, uncomfortable, angry, finger-pointing, tension-filled family!? no fucken way...

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

if i/we could afford it, i'd love to change "careers"!

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

if you care about someone, you want them to be happy, even if it means your not, for a while - whole-heartedly, yes...

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

that really depends - can we get housing that costs the same/will it put us on the street? (stability and comfort during a health crisis are very important, imo) do we have any equity in the house/is it worth anything? honestly, i'd help them fight the cancer, but i doubt any of you would believe how i would do it, so i'm not going to say...

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

i will never sacrifice who i am for another human being - my reasoning? 1) if i do, i won't truly be happy in myself, which will eventually turn into resentment and anger, 2) if they expect me to do so, or if i feel i must to keep them, they quite obviously aren't a person i'm meant to be with. i won't fight for someone, and i've never understood that. why would i want someone around who doesn't want to be there in the first place? what's the quote? "if you love some(one/thing), set it free - if it doesn't come back, it was never yours in the first place" (or something like that...)

[Ash Sangre]

(sigh), honestly, I think the ones who post about love are very courageous. Love to me is such a scary thing since Love was never available in my household as a child, therefore, it has been too hard for me to let love in, or even give love to anyone. I harness any emotions inmyself due to the fact that I cannot handle emotions. I am kind of an emotionless person, Sure. I think it would be quite nice to do all the things for love, but personally, Love to me is just too much of an overrated Supposed feeling, thats just me tho, not dissing anyone at all, Wish I could be the loveable type:(

[Shade Everdark]

Do you believe in love?

I suppose I still do, but I think it tends to be overrated. Love isn't magical, I'll say that much.

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

I've done this before; a direct result of this is knowing you fine people. I would consider it again, but I'd have to be a little more careful next time.

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

There are a lot worse things in life than boring family gatherings. Besides, that's what all of my family's gathering have been--boring--so I'm well-equipped.

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

Never. I have a commitment to make a difference in the world for the better, if only a small one, and I won't give that up. Not even for love.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

I'd like to think so. There'd probably be a little begging involved, though.

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

This one is far too dependent on individual circumstances, so I'm just not going to answer. Besides, I know someone who had put his financial ass on the line for the woman he loved--is still doing it, really--and I won't ever measure up to that, so I'm not even going to try.

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

No, I don't think so. Ultimately, I'm too independent, I'm too aloof, and I'm too alone in my head to give up absolutely everything for someone else. If you love me, I'm afraid you have to love me with all of my stuff, all of my baggage, until I can put it down, and all of my friends, family, cat, and whatever else.

[Brenda Starrr]

Just come to Baltimore. Bring Kiri.

[Shade Everdark]

Just come to Baltimore. Bring Kiri.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Don't you have, oh, I don't know, a husband?

And Steven?

[Brenda Starrr]

It appears so. I can have straight, male friends. Can't I?

[Steven]

Don't you have, oh, I don't know, a husband?

And Steven?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

shhh Brenda.......they know.

[Shade Everdark]

It appears so. I can have straight, male friends. Can't I?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Sure.

As long as you introduce us to your hot, single, intelligent female friends.

Or even hot, single, intelligent female strangers.

[Brenda Starrr]

shhh Brenda.......they know.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Because you told!

Sure.

As long as you introduce us to your hot, single, intelligent female friends.

Or even hot, single, intelligent female strangers.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I know lots. Just come to my salon.

[Fierce Critter]

Do you believe in love?

Absolutely.

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

Considering Jon and I have done this, I speak with good authority. It depends. Lots of details go into such a decision.

Jon had to make the move we made because of his employment situation. Neither of us wanted to go. I cried the instant he told me he got the offer, because there was no question - we had to go.

Now, after doing so, we were BOTH miserable. We both hated it. To survive, we had to make a change and move back to where we were both happy. "Home is what you make it" is complete and total bullshit. If you're both miserable where you are, you're miserable - period. It's hard to get happy about anything when your overall situation is uncomfortable.

Would we move again? No. If Jon lost his job - we'd find a way to make it here in Michigan. Period.

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

I'm going to expand this to say "...uncomfortable family gatherings...". Jon's family can't stand me. I was burned more than once at family gatherings with them. I let them get me - twice. I told him under no uncertain terms I wasn't going to be a fool and let them get me again. He has since cut off all ties with them himself, so I don't have to worry about it anyway.

If it were just a matter of "boring", no problem. I'm with him and that's all that matters.

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

Jon and I both took a lot of flack for our stance - from the start - that we wouldn't work jobs that required us to be on different shifts, only seeing each other passing in the night. We balked at jobs that would require Jon to work tons of overtime. We've had to make small adjustments to our stance over the years, but it has worked out for us because of my not working for someone else. If he has an overtime job on the weekend - I go with him. He gets to keep a good job, he gets some overtime pay, and I don't miss out on seeing him for those hours.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

Reluctantly, yes. One of the things I've had to face in being in a relationship with a guy 11 years younger than I is the fact that he's spent his years growing and changing. I knew going into the relationship that he might reach a point where he found he was growing into a person who wouldn't want to be in a relationship with me. I have hoped it wouldn't happen, and thankfully, he's only grown into a person who wants to be with me more.

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

Without hesitation. We've lived meagerly before. We could do it again.

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

Here's where I have to say I have reservations. I have, in some ways, sacrificed all that I have been to be with Jon. I have, at different periods, left the family & land I loved, killed a career, given up hobbies, from the extreme to the minute. Some of this has been worth it. Some of it has only hurt me to the point where it may have hurt the relationship.

You have to keep a bit of yourself in a relationship. I have realized how much of myself I sacrificed, and recently begam work to rediscover "myself". I'm doing hobbies I loved again. I'm back with family & in an area I love. Etc.

A relationship can't be whole if one of the individuals isn't whole themselves.

[Msterbeau]

Yes to all

I agree. No words can truly express how important love is and what it means to me.

[bean]

Do you believe in love?

yes

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

yes

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

yes

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

honestly, no, because I know my significant other would not do it. I have to draw the line somewhere.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

yes, but it would be difficult

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

I would sell

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

I'm not sure how to answer this. All I know is that when I'm in love with someone, I tend to put almost all of my emotions and energy into the relationship, even if the other person isn't putting as much into it. Then when something small happens, it messes me up for days. I don't know where I was going with that, so I'm going to stop now.

[Scary Guy]

Do you believe in love?

Depends on how long the feeling lasts. There is a certain period of time and trials one must go through before hand to see if it's really true. It can and has existed though everything is usually against it.

Is love important enough to move to be with someone you love, even if you had to leave a city you adore?

Yes, at the drop of a hat or as soon as possible. A place is just a place (or if it's really that good they could move in with you and you wouldn't have to leave at all).

Would you spend time at boring family gatherings just because it makes them happy?

Unfortunately yes, but under protest.

Would you change careers if your career was taking too much time away from the relationship?

Yes, though i'd make time in the first place.

Would you step aside if they weren't happy and wish them well as you watched them walk away?

Been there, done that :(

Would you sell your house to pay for their experimental cancer treatment and save them from dying or would you just say "awww, too bad about the cancer but the market's just not right to sell right now"?

Hell I'd even read up on it and come up with my own experemental treatments.

Would you sacrifice everything and say it was worth it, even if you lose them in the end?

Better to have loved and lost, as they say.

If it's there, chase after it because it's pretty rare to find.