When you care and worry about a person, do you love that person?

[Writer]

PLEASE don't cast aspersions (asparagus?) for my asking this. It's just a question that came to mind. :)

[WindRavenX]

1. yes

I worry about my other half more than myself, actually. He says the same.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. When that person's happiness is essential to your own...

That is love...

:hug:

[swag]

3. I suppose that's as good a definition as any.

Not that there is a good definition of teh lurve.

[Nicole]

4. Not always

There are people I care & worry about but I don't love them. I hardly know some of them.

I always care & worry about the people that I do love.

[rug]

5. When you don't care and don't worry about a person, do you hate that person?

[Guava Jelly]

6. love and in love

are different.

[Nikia]

7. It depends

I care and worry about all my friends who are "in mind". What I mean by that is people who I see or am reminded of enough to think of. I might not be worrying about some of my friends from my hometown or college who I haven't seen for a while but if someone brings them up, especially mentioning a bad situation that they are in, I worry. Of the people I see on a regular basis, I worry about those who I am not even particuliarly close to or wouldn't be friends with if we didn't work together.
Some people don't care or worry about anyone or only their romantic partner or close family though. I don't mean to condemn anyone who feels this way. How I care and worry about people is probably unhealthy in a way. It is just different and sucks when you find out that someone who you thought was a close friend doesn't care and worry about you because they don't care and worry about people who are only friends.

[buddhamama]

8. hmmm. good question.

for myself, i would call it a universal love of humanity. i care for, and worry about people i do not know.

it is different however than the love i feel for friends,
and immensely different than being in-love.