Why is it said, "There is a thin line between Love and Hate"?

See, both of which involve an emotional roller coaster. Love and Hate both require you to get sucked into a vortex of sin and degredation. Not true however, with animals...They are fine to love. Have a good day!

It's true enough, I suppose. Given the emotional investment involved in loving someone else, it's hardly surprising that when that love dies it can be replaced by something far darker. I think any actual hatred is more likely to result if the loser in love (and there is always a loser in love) feels betrayed in any way. That very definitely can cause the 180 degree turnaround from love to hate.

On a personal note, I've grown up a lot over the years, or at least I like to think so. When my first serious love relationship ended, in semi-betrayal, I initially despised the former object of my affections. But it took a comparatively brief time for me to see things differently and ultimately realize I was very fortunate not to have gone any deeper in that particular relationship. Talk about your unmitigated disasters.

Anyway, that was nearly 20 years ago and I am not the same (rather pathetic and very immature) person I was then. I'm proud to say the the last three serious relationships I've been in ended on amicable terms with no rancor or bitterness. It goes without saying, then, that far from hating them, I only have fond memories and sincerely wish them well. So I guess for me that thin line has widened to a chasm. Besides, I think it unhealthy to hate anyone, period.

Nice question, hope... though I'm still waiting to hear your views on the topic?

People have given some decent answers already here, which I pretty much agree with. I'd only add that I can sometimes tend to love and hate the same person at the same time. Consider for example, hypothetically of course, that you have an alcholic parent. You love and need them for so much, you want them to be healthy and in control of their lives, you love them. This same parent can have a mean and nasty streak, and ruin day after day of your life, and you hate them. But you only want the best for them -- it's not the kind of hate where you wish evil on them. It is resentment but experienced as a feeling of hate. Does that make any sense?

I'll quote my brother, (because, ok, this was not really hypothetical, regardless of what Mac says about it not always being about yourself), in an anguished comment he made to me the day of my fathers funeral, tears streaming down his face -- "I never knew you coul love and hate somebody so much at the same time." So, that's a mighty thin line, approaching invisible.

Now, do I hit "submit?"

Because of the frailty of our emotional psyche. Loving someone is different to being 'in love' with someone. You can hate the person you love momentarily, for any number of reasons - they've betrayed or embarrassed you perhaps. It's what gives rise to anger, which can turn to hate if the offence is severe enough, or the love for self is greater than the love for the other.

Because of the fact people tend to go quickly between the two emotions. Say you have a boy or girlfriend that you want to spend every waking moment with, you feel you cant be happy with anyother person but with the one your with. When they betray you you refuse to talk to em, hate being near em. One day can change everything.

Without love hate cannot exist, the two emotions are necessarily tied to one another.

Because it is true. The reasons that you can love someone also give you a vulnerabilty to that person, which can lead to them hurting you. Which, in turn, causes you to hate that person. So it's not uncommon for someone to love someone that they dispise. I'm in that situation now.

College Boy said it. One day you love somebody more than anything and the next day they can do something so bad that "WHAM" you hate them more than anything on earth.

There is no line,just hate. Hate keeps you hard so no one can hurt you.

when you love someone, it gives them the abillity to hurt you, and when they do eventually you begin to hate them for not protecting your feelings.