What Is Love?
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WHAT IS LOVE?
Love is a strong feeling of affection for another arising from kinship or personal ties. (2) Unselfish loyal and benevolent behavior or concern for the good of another. (3) A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance (Webster's Dictionary). There are many different definitions of love. To each person it is different, but most agree it is one of the most important emotions to the each creature on this earth. There are also many different forms of love. For instance, love for your family versus love for a mate. It is still a mystery to most people why people do crazy things for love, or why people feel love "conquers all"
Love is not just a feeling, but it is the way that you treat the ones you care for. It is making that sacrifice for someone even though you might not benefit from it yourself. Love is how you make another person feel when you are in their presence. Many people show or express their love for someone in many and different ways. To me love is in the actions not the words.
Definitions of love go as far as Greek mythology. For example, the story of Cupid
and his mortal Bride Psyche. There are many explanations on how love exactly came to
mean what it does. According to John Lee there are 6 different types of love. 1. Erotic
love: romantic, sexual irrational, and largely based on physical attraction. 2. Manic
love: intense, all consuming, possessive, and fluctuating between joy and despair.
3. Ludic love: egoistic, self-serving, competitive, and based on an unequal relationship
between one partner who is highly committed and another who is emotionally
uninvolved. 4. Pragmatic love: a rational, practical, fair exchange between two carefully
matched partners. 5. Storgic love: the companionate, stable love that emerges from a
relationship between friends. 6. Agapic love: the altruistic devotion of one partner for
the other. Many people have theories, but overall love is whatever
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