Is a life worth living, without someone to love and to be loved in return?

[Darkover]

Love can inspire and motivate a person to pursue their goals and passions. Without it, a person may feel demotivated and struggle to find purpose and meaning in their life. Poor mental health: The absence of love can contribute to poor mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and suicide

now imagine you would never be loved by anyone is life still worth living

 

[sserafim]

I've never felt love before and I never will. I've never had someone to love or been loved in return. Love doesn't impact my life at all. It's just a chemical reaction in your brain. I don't know why people center their whole lives around oxytocin and serotonin. Personally, I center my life around dopamine. I could care less about oxytocin

 

[iloverachel]

Life is not worth living regardless of whether you have love, ten million dollars, a mansion, whatever.

Life is meaningless in my opinion

But for this specific question, I think love can also make life worse once you lose it. My username was named after a girl who i loved and loved me back on 8/29/2018 which was 5 and a half years ago.
Once she was gone, all the happy memories turned into painful ones as I know I can never relive it. Sometimes I wish we never met

 

[4am]

i think life is generally not worth living, but it has nothing to do with love, rather life itself. but regarding love, don't forget that aromantic people, who don't feel romantic attraction, exist perfectly fine. love is just stupid monkey brain feeling most people have

 

[Pluto]

I don't feel I've ever been loved (at least not by a human) and life feels completely worthless without it.

 

[hadenough58]

Yes, the benefit of being on your own is there is nobody to let you down?
Once you have been betrayed it is almost impossible to trust anyone again so relationships are then doomed before they even start.

 

[Otaku]

In my opinion it's a double edged sword.
It gives you advantages, but definitely also disadvantages.

 

[divinemistress36]

Romantic love is usually temporary. They grow tired of you over time and find someone else

 

[ijustwishtodie]

In my case, I'd still wish to be dead even if I was loved. My desire to be dead isn't because of a lack of love, it's because of society as a whole. You talk about how love can make people feel motivated to pursue goals but I don't even have any goals or passions to begin with as there just isn't anything that I like within life. Even if I get loved, I still have to wage slave for the rest of my life and being loved wouldn't make me suffer less than I already do

I've never felt love before and I never will. I've never had someone to love or been loved in return. Love doesn't impact my life at all. It's just a chemical reaction in your brain. I don't know why people center their whole lives around some oxytocin and serotonin

I think some people center their lives around love for the same reason why people get lonely when they aren't socialised enough. I don't really crave love or even friendship but I still do feel pain from loneliness because I... am literally lonely. I see it as an irrational body mechanism the same way how survival instinct is irrational. Nonetheless, I am getting used to my loneliness and I hope that I can get rid of it so that the only way I can chase oxytocin is by looking at some cats online or something. Cats are far nicer when it comes to this type of thing anyway

 

[LaVieEnRose]

Romantic love? Sure. Give me a billion dollars and I don't care if it's just me and my hand tonight.

 

[BlendedHeart]

I wonder, if I didn't have this constant craving for love and affection, would I be able to see life in a different way? Would I think life is worth living?

 

[Iamtired]

Love can inspire and motivate a person to pursue their goals and passions. Without it, a person may feel demotivated and struggle to find purpose and meaning in their life. Poor mental health: The absence of love can contribute to poor mental health outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and suicide

now imagine you would never be loved by anyone is life still worth living

For me, no. I chose life two weeks ago because of a beautiful man who chooses to love me despite all of my daily pain. I would not be on this earth right now without it. There's no Point to any of this without love and play and laughter. I won't do it

 

[wastingpotential]

Once you realize and experience that anyone you know could just drop dead at any given moment or simply leave you for whatever reason, no. Its not worth it

 

[bac-9271]

It's nice to have. But it isn't everything. Certainly not as important as people make it out to be People live fulfilling lives without love all the time. People who are deeply in love also often wish they didn't have to deal with the responsibilities and restrictions that come from that love.

 

[Dark Moon]

It can happen when you can get cheated on, the other person leaves and betrayal but if you're going to go through your whole life without being loved then I don't think that's worth living.

 

[Install-Gentoo]

It depends on the person and depends on definition of love. There's many satisfied people who die a virgin yet experienced good companionship.
Isaac Newton never really had any steady romantic relationships, but his scientific pursuits gave him a strong sense of purpose, as well as his standing in the scientific community.

Receiving love doesn't seem to be necessary, but having love or passion for something seems to be pretty important. In many cases, adopting the latter can result in the former.

 

[sserafim]

It depends on the person and depends on definition of love. There's many satisfied people who die a virgin yet experienced good companionship.
Isaac Newton never really had any steady romantic relationships, but his scientific pursuits gave him a strong sense of purpose, as well as his standing in the scientific community.

Receiving love doesn't seem to be necessary, but having love or passion for something seems to be pretty important. In many cases, adopting the latter can result in the former.

Why do most people want companionship or romantic relationships?

 

[Darkover]

Why do most people want companionship or romantic relationships?

biological need same reason for having children it's an innate desire a natural instinctive urge or drive within a person

 

[sserafim]

biological need same reason for having children it's an innate desire a natural instinctive urge or drive within a person

Lol I guess I'm absurd then. I have none of these so-called "drives", and I really have no need for them. What do you get out of having children, companionship or a romantic relationship?

 

[Install-Gentoo]

Why do most people want companionship or romantic relationships?

Well it's definitely a nice thing to have, but it doesn't seem 100% necessary. So as an analogy, you certainly need water to survive but you can also drink tea or milk or whatever. Romantic relationships are the most common form of this "feeling of attachment", but it manifests in others differently.
For another example, a nun might devote her life to the church and studying God. She can't have any romantic relationships, but she might still be happy to have a relationship with God or with her fellow nuns.

So basically, a "feeling of commitment" seems to be most important in life. This manifests in different ways, but the most common is romance. However, you can also be committed to a hobby or religion or other pursuits. When you lose the ability of commitment, it's likely you'll lose the will to continue living.

 

[bac-9271]

Why do most people want companionship or romantic relationships?

As a guy, it's mostly an ego/social thing. Having a hot girlfriend elevates your status, people think more of you. A guy who is single is thought of as some who is "lower", a virgin is thought of as a creep and a loser.
It's mostly social pressure from implicit biases.
This is also why women are more attracted to guys who already have girlfriends. Even though it makes no sense from a mathematical perspective.

 

[Shar]

If I have to work in crap job I hate then life will never be worth living, at most tolerable. If she pays for everything ... maybe, otherwise she is useless.

 

[tsumihoroboshi]

i don't know how to feel love and i've never been genuinely loved back that wasn't pity. love isn't magic. i'd be in this miserable hole regardless if i could love or not or if i were loved or not. it would not fix or cure me. i'm simply broken.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

Not for me at least.

 

[penguinl0v3s]

You can be happy without love, but it's a lot better with it. Helps you go from "I can tolerate life, but hope I coincidentally die" to "I want to live life and not die."

I only say this about mutual love. I don't see being loved meaningful if you can't love them back.