What is love?
Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. Love is not a single feeling but an emotion built from two or more feelings. Anything vital to us creates more than one feeling, and we also have feelings about our feelings (and thoughts about our feelings). Love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.
Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. Love is not a single feeling but an emotion built from two or more feelings. Anything vital to us creates more than one feeling, and we also have feelings about our feelings (and thoughts about our feelings). Love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual emotional closeness of familial and platonic love to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.
Three ingredients in love:
1) Intimacy- sharing, communication, mutual support and trust.
2) Passion- not just physical, but also emotional.
3) Commitment- long term focus.
TYPES OF LOVE:
EROSE LOVE
-the Greek god of love and sexual desire. It’s a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment: stereotype of romantic love.
LUDUS LOVE
-ludus is called game-playing love. It is like the love of a knight for a princess. There are playful interactions here but little intimacy or deep intensity.
STORGE LOVE
-storge exemplifies friendship-based love. There is strong companionship and shared values here but little physical intimacy.
PRAGMA LOVE
-pragma, a combination of storge and ludus love, refers to practical or logical love in which someone actively searches for a partner with certain characteristics.
MANIA LOVE
-mania is also known as troubled love. This love has jealousy and dependance(often called co-dependancy), great intensity, some intimacy, and many psychological symptoms related to the relationship. It is a highly volatile love; obsession; fueled by low self-esteem.
AGAPE LOVE
-it is a selfless altruistic love; spiritual; of giving without asking anything in return, and of sacrificing oneself for one’s partner. Many would consider it to be the purest form of love.
All couples share some of each of these forms of love. However, some individuals and thus, couples, focus more on certain types of love styles.
seriously u r good at this..did u write this urself?.. keep it up.. agape love is god's love rite?... i hope to have a combination of these love..
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