Most people define love as a feeling of affection or a sentiment. That’s love attached to a feeling. That is part of what love is. They’re in the process of expressing love, expressing who they are. You connect with others, and in that connection you feel certain feelings. You may feel compassion, affection, tenderness, closeness. Those are all attributes of the experience of love. But they are not what love is.
They are all feelings that you experience in the expression or the experience of love, but they are not what love is.
The core of what love is, is the expression of your being, the revelation of the being, showing and sharing all of who you are with life, with the world, with every other human being, with one individual human being. All of that is love.