In all reality is love good, bad or both?

Love is a myth; it's a mishmash of emotions that have been branded (for reasons originally based on religion and procreation, and now largely based on commercial interests) as a single feeling.

Romantic love is:

Friendship -- you get along, know each other's tastes and fears.

Sexual attraction -- you like to have sex!

Commitment -- you're both committed to being monogamous (in theory). At the very least, it's a commitment to spend time together.

Fear -- you're constantly afraid that the person you love may not love you as much, or the same way, or that you've Made the Wrong Choice. And of course there's always the fear of jealousy -- the fear that your partner may be eying (or worse) someone else.

A Stereotype -- we hear so many love songs on the radio and watch so many movies where the couple swoon together, the music rises... that we're brainwashed. We think that not only is this the way things *should be* but that this is the way things *are*. If our relationship doesn't have a romantic soundtrack, we all secretly fear that we're lacking somehow.

Comfort -- can you fart in front of your lover? If so, is that crass? If not, why not?

Calling all of these swirling, often conflicting emotions "love" is doing ourselves a disservice. It's not just one feeling, it's many.

So to be confused that the experience of "love" is confusing is, itself, weird. Of course it's confusing. Romantic love isn't simple -- it's a weird, contradictory, and often baffling mixture of incompatible feelings and urges, from the sublime to the pathetic.

Love is like a clock, it goes through every state between 12 and 11:59. I.E you go through every emotion, anger and love. it's how it goes, it's not all beautiful all the time

I think it is both because sometimes Love makes you happy and sometimes it makes you sad. You could fall in love with someone (happy) or still love them after they dumped you or moved on (sad). Mostly it's good though.

I think that anything good, always has a bad side so I would have to say some of both.

Love is both.

It has the ability to cause great happiness but also terrible pain.

Communication and trust is KEY!

love does bring sad and happiness...in order for u to become a stronger couple, one has to go through things like this..so dnt stop loving him

"A 'fit of rage' isn't love."

"Try living together. When your love for each other becomes

painful to your neighbors, either somebody is leaving, or one

you is going to jail."

Love is good,

Love is life

this is not bad.