Loving has no independent existence. There is always a subject; there is loving, there is being loved, and sometimes loving goes many ways at once. I can love everybody. It's series of active feelings in motions internally that show themselves through words, actions, deeds but in a veiled way; for the action of loving isn't entirely visible, in much the same way that we have private minds that are 'minding'. Mind is another good example: It's not really a noun per se; it's a verb. You're thinking. A mind is only a mind when it is thinking; the activeness is hiding within the noun form of 'mind', but it's still there. But in cases of Love; there's really no realm of love per se. There is loving. I am loving [who?]. I am being loved [by whom?] The noun form Love is handy but it's misleading. What is love? Well, ask: what is emotion? Let's go etymology: 1570s, "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation," from Middle French *motion (16c.), from Old French emouvoir "stir up" (12c.), from Latin emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + movere "to move" (see move (v.)). Movement. Moving out. an Agitation. Emotions are a "moving out of"