How do you tell when you are in love?

that's not an easy question to answer.. maybe impossible.. especially when asking strangers with no knowledge whatsoever on your love life..

id like to say that when youre in love, you just know. you could read about emotions your whole life and then when you experience them, theyre nothing like you thought.. so much inexplicably stronger. there are just somethings that cannot be fit into paper. what i mean is, don't let strangers -or anyone else for that matter- but yourself influence your decisions in what only who can know. who you are in love with being one of the things only you can know. some may say:

"when you relate to love songs in ways you couldn't before, when all you think about is that significant other, when somethings feel like they have not happened yet until you tell him or her, when everything reminds you of him/her, when you only see him/her, close your eyes and there he/she is, you replay moments with him/her in your head until you see him/her again, it hurts to think this could end, you believe it will never end, you get scared without him/her of things you once could handle by yourself, the world seems to revolve around him/her" ... ...

these "signs" coming from someone who has never been in love. its so easy to think you are in love when you are really not. some people fall in love with the idea of being in love and their minds play trick on them. but i think that emotions that strong don't need verification through love quizes or marking which of the signs you relate to and tallying them up in pros/cons... its just a built-in thing... you just know. at least that's what i like to believe. let me know if this helps you or if you were just curious. :]

-Michelle08