The dating site's poll had 2751 answering this question:

[Deja Q]

Does love equal happiness?

Men
Yes
49%
No
51%
Total male votes: 1123
Women
Yes
41%
No
59%
Total female votes: 1628
Total
Yes
45%
No
55%
Total votes: 2751



What's your take?

[hippiechick]

1. Love = "Oh God Shoot Me Now" type of misery.

Never happens at the right time, brings too much drama fo yo' mama, fucks EVERYTHING up.

Cheesecake = Happiness. Oh yeah. O8)

[BlueJazz]

2. Depends on who is their.

[baldguy]

3. I love you!

Now, come here & rip out my intestines, cook them & feed them to the dog!

(No, I'm not bitter. Not...really.)

[Nicole]

4. No

[hfojvt]

5. given those answers

I guess I am better off not dating.

[Elidor]

6. Love is far too complex to be codified into a simple concept like "happiness"

Love is good and bad, yin and yang, happy, mad, thriving, suffering. When it's good, it's better than no love; when it's bad, it's worse.

[Common Sense Party]

7. What a ridiculous question. Even assuming that they mean

"romantic" love, how can anyone say that if you are romantically in love, you are by definition, inevitably happy?

Many people are happy without romantic love.

Many people "love" someone who makes them most unhappy.

[ironflange]

8. You're right

The question is hopelessly vague. There's a lot more to being happy than loving someone, I, for instance, love my wife and family intensely, but I've been totally miserable for the past month for various reasons. How am I supposed to answer a question like that?!?

I'm getting better, though.

[Common Sense Party]

9. I hope so. Hang in there.

Things are bound to look better in a little while.

[ironflange]

10. I'm quitting my job tomorrow

That should help immensely. I'll be broke, but happy.

[jpgray]

11. As the sole yes vote so far, I'd say it depends on your definition of love

And, uh, also on your definition of happiness. Eternal happiness doesn't exist in this life, but recognizing that you have it good and not worrying too much about messing it up or getting bored with it qualifies, no? By those criteria, it definitely results in happiness for me.