Is love an emotion or a decision?

I think both. Loving feelings and loving actions often go hand in hand but not always. For instance, I may do something loving when I don't feel like it. I think love often takes effort, whereas loving feelings take no effort at all. While I'm washing my husbands underwear I'm not thinking Oh I love you so much but I'm doing it because I do love him.

I wrote a hub which covers some of this that you might like to read: Save my marriage - why falling out of love should not be the end of your relationship. The deepest type of love is based on a decision and a commitment you make to love a person. In a relationship, I believe we are drawn to another (at first) based upon attraction and yes, feelings. But feelings cannot be trusted for the long haul. Emotions come and go like a roller coaster and if we depend on our emotions we will be falling in and out of love all of the time. I also wrote a hub on love called "true love" and it explains the three levels of love.
Love starts off with emotions and then when we feel that the person is not good or is good...then it is decision time IF we want this relationship to last but, alas there are some who let their emotions conquer their decisions and could suffer from a bad relationship if it turns out to be such.Despite the mystery of love and all of its trappings, love is still just a decision. You decide to love when you meet a person who you interact with like you have known them all of your life. You can..
Mary Ann  said "Love isn't a degree on a scale that when reached you can say, "Oh, I'm in love now." It comes in varying forms, amounts, and types.
If it were so simple that you could boil it down to one thing or the other, bookstores wouldn't have a "self-help" section.
Love is an emotion, but the decision to act upon it, to work with it, to strengthen it, or to end it lies with you.

You can love a friend, even love someone long enough that you might see yourself happy with them. That's where love becomes a decision. Or you can meet someone, and suddenly, at the most obscure moment, you realize without them you feel empty and alone.
You can also have "puppy-love", where you seem to fall in love at first sight, but really it's just a strong attraction that will most likely crash and burn at the end of two weeks. Sometimes you might at first despise each other, and then after a civil conversation, realize you like them- maybe even love them. (Hand to God I've seen it happen...)
Unfortunately, there's no accurate description of love. I generally expirience a sensation in my chest similar to if someone were blowing up a balloon inside me, I lose all ability to focus, and suddenly what I say to this person becomes the most important thing in my life, because if I say something stupid it's the end of the world..."  while Emy added "I think it begins as a feeling but that feeling won't last forever without the decision to make it do so. In a marriage for instance, you know you won't stay in the type of love you may have felt when you first met or even when you first got married. When people say they no longer are in love with each other this I think is what they mean. When that stage is over you have to make a decision to love if you want to stay together. I know you can't force love. But you can build up a relationship and turn it into, if not that googly eyed you're perfect and I'll make out with you anywhere without thinking love into something more friendship based, something perphaps deeper and longer lasting. That leads to attraction and better intimacy in and of it's self."

So which ever way you think it is. Let me receive your comments