Would you be happy if you could put love in a bottle, and just let it out when you wanted to be loved?

Love doesn't seem like it should be bottled up.

You gotta let it free, like I do with my farts!

So you mean 'bottling up of emotion'? (here - Love). You may mean it literally, but metaphorically, bottling up of emotion(s), lead to an ocean of emotion forming within, with huge waves, longing to connect and you can't just let it out as per your own wish. It comes out like a volcanic eruption whenever it wants to.

It's like a coiled spring - the more you thrust it and force yourself on it, the moment you leave it, the higher it will bounce back. So, never bottle up emotion(s). What eventually will come out will not be love, but only misery. Love chooses you, and you don't choose love. Love is like falling in it before even realising, so perhaps, one can never ever 'decide' when to be loved and when not be since 'decision making' ventures nowhere near it. Therefore, bottling it up would only show your insecurity - as if you want to own it and want it to behave the way you want to.

Further, we all possess love inside which manifests itself when the time is right & ripe. And then connect with the other. It just flows.. so when you can't possibly cage or bottle the love you possess within yourself, it's never wise, to put someone's love inside a bottle and then tag it as 'my love'. It's no longer yours. It's yours when you give it wings and just let it fly.. high!

Certainly not. I strongly feel that my love is not placed inside a bottle.

Only if it would stay as fresh as when it was first placed in the bottle. But, then, what about the human factor? What about the hugs?

Whoa! You are saying there are times when you don't want to be love. What's wrong with this picture?

That wouldn't make me happy.

Love comes from the heart, not a bottle.

When one heart speaks to another.. you will know it's real and so much better than anything bottled.

No, I want to be loved all the time.

Don't think so, but Jim Croce used a variation of the metaphor for a gorgeous song and this is a good excuse to hear it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhL36vP_lv4

Love is not about what we can get, it's about what we can give.

Hmm, I know a lot of people who would go for that. But I'd be worried that it would get stale.