Attraction, lust, pain, narcissism, egocentrism, selfishness

If someone is obsessed with a person they adore and stalk them. It is a mental disorder and not a true emotion anymore.

For me not love is the sheer corporal and physical attraction towards somebody without any accordance of character traits. It causes an all sexual relationship without any emotional bonding.

Material “Love” (“loving chocolate”,…)

It is a very difficult question indeed. I really don't have so much life experience to answer this question with 100% accuracy. I'm still learning and for the moment i'm pretty sure only that passion is not love.

Love is not selfish. On the contrary, love is all about giving to others without expecting to receive something. Love is not about lying, but about always telling the truth. Furthermore, Love is neither hate nor envy. 

Love is not being dependent someone. Attachment and dependency are different things. Also, ‘real’ love is not mortal; it lives with you all your life and never comes end. Love is never selfish, it always tries to share something like emotions, beliefs etc. Besides, love is not just for romantic relationship as I stated before. Also, not just for human. I can love biking, chocolate, my dog or my sister, not just my boyfriend.

    “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.” (Elie Wiesel)

In my opinion indifference is the exact definition of not love. Emotions like anger or hate are always based in love.  For example: It is common to say that war has nothing to do with love. But people fight because  of their love in their Mother country. Hate and anger is based in love.

Hate, black, war, conditions, anger, senselessness, thievery, coldness, death

Wars, fights, hate, not to come to someone’s rescue, if he needs emergency aid, furtiveness, stealing, lying.

This question is harder to answer than I thought it to be. There are many things that seem to be the opposite of love. But there are very few things that cannot be the consequence of (failed) love. Hate is obviously not love. But if I love someone and it turns out that he does not deserve this love I could hate him out of love.

    But when I say love is everything that affects my body as well as my soul, everything else that does not touch me like this probably is not love. But due to the fact that only I can say how it feels when love touches me, I fail to describe what is or what is not love for me. The answer is in my body and my soul, but apparently neither in my head nor on my tongue.

Obsession, insane jealousy, pedophilia, pathological love to animals, all kinds of “love” that finish in sexual abuse

Arranged marriages; Violent partner or parents (abuse and rape); If you expect your partner to change radically; suppression of women by the partner or father

When thinking of what is not love there only come negative terms like betrayal, hatred and spite in my mind. Furthermore, if you are just taking everything but not giving anything, it shows me what love is not because then one is taking advantage of love.

When love is misused it’s not love anymore, for example, when it is used to build walls instead of setting people free. Love isn’t supposed to be linked to conditions and also shouldn’t be used to control people. And there is no forced love in my opinion, you can’t force people to love you and vice versa. If respect and trust are missing it’s not love either.

    In general I would say that the opposite of love is every deconstructing force like war and crime. In addition selfishness has nothing to do with love for me, because the special thing about love is that it is something that you can’t give yourself, it has to be a gift.

Love is not having someone following you all the time like a "stalker" and also when the partner hems you in or controls every single move.
Love should be something amazing and not evoke fear while maybe doing something wrong.

For me the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference which means having no feeling for anything.

Close friendship, purely sexual attraction, a good relationship to distant relatives, etc.

Love is not being together with someone just because you are afraid of being lonely.

When you are just fallen in love it’s not the same like being in love.

When just one part of the couple loves but the other not in return there is no connection called love.

Love is made of various components. Therefore the combination of different aspects is important. Neither sex, nor affinity or attraction alone means love. Next to this I do not think of love as a negative power. If in a relationship one person is abused or addicted to the other  I think it cannot be love. The suffering person might have psychological problems. The same applies for very exaggerated love. In that case people seem to forget that they are individuals.

Hate, Evil, Friendship, Sport, Obsession, Things I like, I don’t love. You can’t love

Attraction does not have to be love

Hate and violence is not lovely

Friendship is different to love

I don´t think you can love anything that isn´t alive

Not love is being addicted to and overdependent on someone who isn't good for you anymore or never has been. It stops being love when the former precious feeling turns into a compulsion. The moment you feel that you have to do something without really wanting it but you do it anyway because that someone you do it for claims he loves you but still forces you is the moment love turns into obedience. In that very instant when someone loses his freewill, love is dead.

    Besides this certain example everything that has to do with hate and violence is a far cry from love, too, of course-objects.

Love is not dating someone.

Love is not having a crush on someone “cute” or “sweet”.
Love is not looking away.

Love is not hurting someone.

Love is not BUYING a perfume you’ve just found at the outlet store for someone just for the sake of his/ her birthday.

Love is not looking in the mirror. (Well, think about that one – I might explain it to you later on…)

Love is not trying to forget.

Love is not crying for someone (but worrying for someone).

Love is not talking about someone (but keeping someone in mind).

Love is not buying, but acting.

Love is not love if you don’t let it happen.

Love is a feeling, an emotion we experience. It is comfortable; it makes us happy and it gives life sense.  Therefore love is not respecting each other,  not caring for each other, being alone. The emotion “hate” could be the opposite of love, but sometimes you want to hate someone, but you can’t because you love the person.