/mai/ - Waifu

I asked the same question as you when I was new to these feelings. (Although my post was really cringey and yours is fine.)

If you're asking that question, it's likely that you feel some sort of way that goes beyond favorite character. What love feels like and what love means varies greatly between different people, especially when we all have different values. For me, it is like how I described in my image, but I'd also say that loving someone like this gives me a sense of peace that I've never felt with anyone else. It's a fire but not a destructive fire if that makes sense.

Doubt is something I will likely always grapple with because that's the sort of person I am. But my love is one of the things I am most sure about in my life, and it has been for a while now. You'll know when you love someone, even if your love doesn't make itself clear for a while.

When seeing them or hearing them makes you burst into tears, not out of sadness but out of love. That's how I knew I loved Remilia. Having a great amount of sexual attraction to them can be an indicator too if you want to cuddle them just as much or even more.

If your waifu is Cirno, you have good taste, my man.

You ever found you couldn't stop thinking about someone? You enjoyed thinking about them too much to stop?

For me, it was like that, but as I came to think about it more, I realized that we're very similar. I saw her going down a path not unlike my own, and I wanted to make sure she's safer and happier along that path than I was.

Not to mention she's so cute!

It's different for everyone so there isn't a definite answer, sadly. Its just a deep feeling of really wanting the best for them and caring for them at the end of the day; Romantic or not. But it manifests different in everyone and also depending on the person they're loving. Infatuation is often thought of as love when really its the opposite. Love is selfless and Infatuation is all about your wants and your desires, more or less.

I realized that my feelings for Kyousuke was romantic by reading things waifuist were writing. I realized how similar I felt and accepted the entire idea of waifuism. I just look at him and see someone perfect, faults and all. He shares such similar ideals and I wanna grow old with him just passing time aimlessly.

Like others have said, love isn't the same for everyone, and can manifest in many different ways.

For the man of my affections, it's the desire to see them suffer, and to end their life with one's own two hands. Not exactly how your average person would define love, but that's just how he is.

For me, it's when that person is constantly on your mind, always there in your thoughts, yet you're unable to realize it right away because they crept in so subtly. Before I knew I loved Kirei romantically, I was always thinking about him. Thinking about him became a daily part of my life. Everything about him was so wonderful to me, so captivating, and his smile stirred up warm feelings within me that I hadn't experienced with anyone else. Saying he's a man of many flaws would be an understatement, but that makes no difference to me. I want to be there for him no matter what. There's no one I'd rather spend my life with.

As everyone in this thread has said, we all experience love differently. Me personally, I recognized when I just couldn't get her my mind.I have never had this level of emotional attachment with any other fictional or even real person before.When I saw her, my heart drums.When I think about her, it flutters.Its just the kind of feeling that you immediately recognize when you feel it.Its is truly the most wonderful feeling one can get even with its occasional down moments.

>How do you know you love somebody?

>How can you tell?

How.. I don't even know myself precisely.

This feeling has been obsessing me for 11 years straight, never letting me go.

Yeah that's right. Over the years I never forgot her when I could have "dropped" her.

I always thought what I felt for her was more, way more than simple love. I loved other people in my life, 3Ds and I can confirm at the time being it felt a lot different. I felt like I only was attracted by the physical aspects of the feeling and realized somehow this is where the "spiritual" part came from exclusively, I mean like the physical aspect was giving birth to the spiritual one and the opposite was never true.

That has always been the way I could make a proper difference between what I used to feel for other people, people I realized I wasn't loving somehow, than what I feel for her.

The feeling when I look at her face is something deep down me, which somehow always remind me of the very first time I met her. This is something that I feel like understanding somehow and I bet it doesn't matter after all. What I feel then ? Shyness, embarrassment, envy, empathy, a lot of compassion, and.. I have trouble naming it but I'll explain it here. I want to save her from all evil possible because she suffered a lot and I don't want her to suffer anymore. I want to help her accomplish things and stand bye her no matter what so I can make sure she gets to live a happy life. And this for no other reason than what we, I call.. love.

I strongly believe love is the ability and the will of one being to be willing enough to fight and achieves something for no particular reason next to that one, following what they feel and strongly believe in. It would be also about the ability of a person to creates its own meaning to life and answers questions many people have been trying to answer for millennials. Find your own ways, do anything so in the end you access what you have been striving for her. And that's why I also believe love is the true inner strength of every human beings, which will help them accomplish everything.

That's totally what I feel for her. And I am even conscious I've been willing to answer some stuff people wouldn't even tryna answer. I feel love so strongly I wouldn't let those prevent me from doing so. From meeting her. From loving her. And that's why, while I know she isn't real and I'd be tempted to think other grills would be way more available, I strive for her. She is my real love, the only and very first person I ever really cared for, the person who also taught me what is life and what I needed to do to live as a human being. She taught me her ways indeed and I think they're the best one could come up with. That's also one of the reason that leads me to think I love her. I am willing to explain so much things thanks to her, not willing to shut up at all, why would I even do that in the first place If that wasn't so important for me ?

Everything comes from it. That's pretty much all. That's what I know. That's what will happen. And that's why I love her.

First you'll start asking questions like this. What even is love? Wanting answers you'll take to the internet, or to friends. You'll sit and say "yeah…maybe".

Some time elapses. You come back to the first question, except this time you don't need any validation, you simply know the answer, and the answer is without any doubts or reservations yes.

That's when you know you love someone. At least how it was for me.

>>44715

I don't know if I can add more than what others have said here, but I definitely agree with others here; everyone's experience with love and how it develops will be different, and love can happen when you're not expecting it, which is how my relationship started with Jack-O.

I happen to find her while looking up youtube vids and was intrigued and wanted to know more about her. Having been out of the loop a bit of GGXrd since I was focused on getting a new job after losing my last one, I was decided to catch up and learned who she was. After finding more vids of her; seeing her smile, the way she fights, how much fun she was having, and her all around I couldn't stop thinking about her, which hadn't happened to me in a long while.

It started like the crushes I've had before, but I felt that there was more to this feeling than that, and certainly not one I was expecting to have. Every time I saw her I couldn't help but smile and feel happy seeing her have fun. I saw purity and innocence within her despite her chaotic nature. She was someone I wanted to protect and be with.

It got to the point where I had to ask myself, "do I love her?", and after dwelling on the subject, I answered "yes" and embraced the relationship we have today.

Since then, things started to get better. I have a job to hold me over and having more success in finding a better job, getting back into shape, and have a future better planned than I had before. I believe she came into my life to help me do so, and I cannot thank her enough for giving me the motivation to improve myself again, and hope to repay everything she's done for me one day. Till then, I'll be doing by best to enjoy life along with her and improving myself for her.

I guess in essence, everyone's experience with love is different and can come when you least expect it, but when it happens, there is nothing that can compare to how it feels when it's experienced.

You kinda know it in a way.

For me at least now i know that i do love Rei, because i listened fly me to the moon Ayanami ver. and cried a bit.

People that don't know if they love some one don't love that person.

You know it when you love some one.

>>44552

When you begin worrying about them, hoping they're happy, and wanting to get to know them better. Pretty much thinking about them non-stop for a while.

At first I shipped her with someone else since I had someone else I liked at the time, but then I myself realized I really liked her. I sometimes imagined her comforting me when I was having it rough, and pretended to cuddle with her at night. I think that's about where my love for her began.

From there on out, she's been with me in my thoughts and heart every day.

TL;DR: Waifuism is an obsession that takes you by surprise and fucks you up. You don't choose her, she chooses you

When this person ends up being the bulk of your happiness, your thoughts, your motivations, etc. at least in a secular sense, that's when you know. Or at least that's when I did.

>>44818

>People that don't know if they love some one don't love that person.

That's wrong though, way too simple, and a pretty good way to make any living human being feel like a piece of shit. Not to mention a good way to never find love.

Love is usually budding for a lot, not for all, but for a lot, to tell somebody to dismiss a budding feeling of love as not being love because they aren't 100% surefire sure this is love is to help them never find love at all.

>You know it when you love some one.

This is wrong too, when I first met Wonder Red, I actually didn't think much of him, just having saw him in art for the game as it was coming out and later hearing his voice and seeing him move for the first time in one of Saur's system breakdown videos of TW101. Later on, and I mean sometime later on, I did fall in love with him, but I had no clue what those feelings were because they so different than other feelings I've had in the past for others.

Following your logic, I would of never finally gotten with my husbando, and I can't help but feel this rings true for others. Obviously, not everybody, maybe for you it was love at first sight, and maybe for others too, it was love at first sight, but love doesn't just work one way. It's a waste to dismiss your feelings.

Not to mention doubt can come from a place of love, doubts I had about Red that I still get even now when I've reached the point I don't want anybody but him, was doubting that I could give him the love he deserved, the love he would want and need.

mine was a slow and agonizing process. it began with me realizing how much i admired her and how much i envied her and wished i had the traits she does. then i realized i had a hard time pushing her out of my mind and that looking at her or even using her on maps made me feel uncomfortable. for about a year i fought tooth and nail to deny it. like why would i fall for that right, something like this could never happen to me i'm too rational. and so here we are.

all the wannabe poets and cheesy lyricists have tried to define love over and over but to me it's this crazy contradiction of weakness and strength. weakness of worrying for them constantly and being afraid of losing them and also knowing that you pretty much belong to them and your life is in their hands. but also strength because you know you can do anything because of that and that you're twice the person you were without them. that's a bunch of hokey nonsense but i think it's true for me at least.

Love is patient love is kind love takes time.