Of Bubbly, Mushy, Fuzzy and Other Feelings
We claim to be in love or to love someone but how do we know when we have found love or how do we define this emotion that we would travel to the end of the world just to find it? We sometimes ditch perfectly good relationships in the hopes of finding more of it or spend the majority of time thinking about, striving, praying, hoping, fantasizing for and yes, even seeing shrinks to affirm that you are probably about to get your wish fulfilled. So how do we know for certain that we have it?" Is it when we experience that initial rush of lust and excitement, the butterflies-in-our-stomach feeling that happens just at the mere sound of our lover's voice, the trembling and breathless moment when we think about him/her, or when we can’t seem to think straight because our lover is occupying more than half of our thoughts? We also know that these feelings come and go and sometimes we ask ourselves if we are still in love when the feeling goes. Love an...