Why Do People Say "Fall" In Love?

fmdog44

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Doesn't the word "falling" denote something bad? He fell ill, fell to his death, etc. Doesn't falling suggest a moment of no control? When love goes bad or dies isn't that the same as getting up and dusting yourself off after a bad fall? It hints at weakness or lack of control or helplessness. Isn't that what we think when our friend or relative declares they love a person that is bad? They say, "Yes, I know he/she is bad but I can't help it, I love him/her!"
 

fmdog44 said:
Doesn't the word "falling" denote something bad? He fell ill, fell to his death, etc. Doesn't falling suggest a moment of no control? When love goes bad or dies isn't that the same as getting up and dusting yourself off after a bad fall? It hints at weakness or lack of control or helplessness. Isn't that what we think when our friend or relative declares they love a person that is bad? They say, "Yes, I know he/she is bad but I can't help it, I love him/her!"
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Well falling in love is kind of an out of control experience so perhaps that’s why they say fall in love.
 
Falling in love, as being an uncontrollable experience, sounds reasonable, but the expression "falling pregnant" doesn't.

The word 'Fall' meaning Autumn may have come from an old English expression "the fall of the leaf". Autumn itself comes from the Latin and gradually replaced 'Harvest' as the name of the season in Britain. The term 'Hairst' is still used in this area to denote the time for harvesting grain.
 
Keep in mind that in tennis, love means nothing / zero........Pretty much the same in life , in general .

It's just an overused word .... I love my car...really ? :oops:
 
Thinking back, I recall a couple of young ladies who literally made my brain fall out of my head for a while.

Someone (a woman I think) once wrote that men don't have enough blood volume to keep both their brain and reproductive equipment fully functioning at the same time. Maybe the phrase came from a fall in blood pressure. ;)
 
fmdog44 said:
Doesn't the word "falling" denote something bad? He fell ill, fell to his death, etc. Doesn't falling suggest a moment of no control? When love goes bad or dies isn't that the same as getting up and dusting yourself off after a bad fall? It hints at weakness or lack of control or helplessness. Isn't that what we think when our friend or relative declares they love a person that is bad? They say, "Yes, I know he/she is bad but I can't help it, I love him/her!"
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We say "fall in love" because it's then that we find the space in our hearts that love has found to fill it. .
 
To the OP: How does falling out of love fit into all this?
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rgp said:
Keep in mind that in tennis, love means nothing / zero........Pretty much the same in life , in general .

It's just an overused word .... I love my car...really ? :oops:
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Ah yes, the old language thing. I read somewhere, some years ago, how other languages do NOT use "love" like we do. Loving your wife or your mother are two different things. As is loving pizza or loving a song. If memory serves (and it may not) I think they were referring to the French language -- which does not use the word "love" for all those things.
 

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