@SeekingPlumb

Is there any truth to this quote?

I saw this quote today. Love, love, love, love. Love is like oxygen. You can't wondered, is this true? Do we physically, emotionally, mentally need either to love someone else or to be loved loved in order to live? Or is it just something that gives us a better mental health, a better maybe longer life? If we do have love in our lives

"Love is like oxygen; you can't live without love."

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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardesΒ Β·Β 1:55

Some kind of love...

So I think I think you breathe differently when you're in love. I think that might be what my answer would be thinking about oxygen. So I don't know. I love the question. I think it's very relevant to people who are sort of in the new zone of not having it consistently like myself. But I'm so grateful for the love I have that's platonic. So I feel like it's
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@Raelah
Rae Lahnie
@RaelahΒ Β·Β 4:36
If you find the right circle, the right support system of friends, if you have the love of an animal who loves you unconditionally, I think all of these things combined really help you in finding out and realizing how wonderful of a person you are, despite all the negative things we often say to ourselves. So sorry I went on about it. Really struck home. Thank you for this question. So to sum it all up, do I think love is like oxygen?
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreoΒ Β·Β 3:49

Love.

Now I laughed at a Rae. I reacted to this with a laugh because this sounds like that typical stuff you see on Instagram. But let's examine it. Love is like oxygen, oxygen. You can't can't live without love. Now we can split hairs and say, what type of love are we talking about? We know what they're talking about. Love, romantic love. Right. And I would say, in that case, love is not like oxygen
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@DBPardes @Raelah

Some really lovely thoughts. Deborah and Rae, I hope each day allows you to breathe deeper of a new kind of oxygen. This idea has crossed my mind many times over the years. I've been single for years now. Now my friendship connections are few, but I do have a cat that I dearly love, and he seems to reciprocate. But then I stumble across some studies that make me wonder about all of the aspects of this question
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@Dewuan

I agreed. Juan, to tie happiness to any sort of love seems rather flawed because love is not always painless and not always enjoyable. But considering that you took the perspective you did about this quote, maybe applying more so to romantic love a little background. I did stumble upon this on two platforms, Instagram and TikTok, but it was listed under a video between a grandson and his grandmother. In that case, I could see this quote applying
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@Raelah
Rae Lahnie
@RaelahΒ Β·Β 2:49
So I think in that moment to stay with my previous example, we haven't exactly learned how to breathe yet. And so we need someone to breathe for us, at least in the beginning and staying with that example if we don't get enough oxygen as we are born and growing up, of course, we would experience psychological defects along the way. It's also interesting that there was a study at the end of the age period
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Swell Team
@SwellΒ Β·Β 0:15

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A different kind of study. @Raelah

But along these lines, Michael Angelo has a quote that goes, something like to touch can be to give life. And there's so much true about that. It's not just the emotional bond that can be created or the comfort or conveying of anger, which can still be in a form of life in itself. Right. But it can also provide things like strengthening our immune system and improving our sleep, reducing stress. And it can ramp up the body's production of natural painkillers
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