How do you know if it's love?

Everyone has been asking me if i'm in love, "do u love him?" So many things flash in my mind when i think of love, so many contradictions, so many ..i dunno....things. So many things I'm scared of, so many things I don't want . So I'm not eager to answer that question atm. All i do know is that I'm ready to really start clean, a clean slate so to speak. There's so many things he's gone through, so many emotions, so much hurt pride, so many things i want to take his mind off, show him how it really can be, how it should be....I in turn want the same from him. So right now, that's all i focus on, but like i'm not really focusing at all, it just natural .

Caring so much for someone scares me though...it really does. It makes me think sooo much, over think, over analyze, and i like to "be in the moment" but i find it hard, unless we are around each other then it no problem, but it's when we are apart that i find myself thinking up reasons why i should turn away,"before it too late" lol..and then i go, ahh thas jus silly...can't live life afraid of being hurt..and thas jus the way it is.

So in all, i embrace it, because there's only so much happyness in the world, and when u find someone who gives u even a little bit, u should hold on to them, and face problems as they come, not create them with mindless fears.

I don't want to go through life wondering, 'what if" jus because i was afraid to try! -yeahh advice for myself and oothers.

Embrace it D---you know wha i'm talking bout  , love ya babe, yeaa