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What Do You Equate Love to?

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What Do You Equate Love to?

Love is love. Love can be described by symptoms. I can tell you how love walks and talks. I could not tell you what love is in mere words. I will put my descriptions.

 

I know there are different kind of love so I will get into true love with a partner...

Love is a powerful admiration, attraction, or bond. It is the moment you no longer consider anyone else as a candidate to be your partner (in the case where your partner is monogamous). It is when you are invested in someone so much you can put their needs and desires over your own. It is when the person may become an integrated part of your life. It is when they are granted full or close to full access to who you are as a person and your life. It is when there is a great deal of trust. It can take months or years to form.

 

I think unconditional love is the best.

Love unconditional is true love without conditions. It means it can never fade no matter what happens. It is one of the most peculiar types of love. It will not diminish or fade even if the person were to commit a massacre and torture human beings. It is when you would consider your partner a part of your identity. It takes like years to form and tends to happens when parents love their children. It does not require trust because it will never ever fade away. It can happen between romantic partners.

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Astamiss stated: source post

I think unconditional love is the best.

Love unconditional is true love without conditions. It means it can never fade no matter what happens. It is one of the most particular types of love. It will not diminish or fade even if the person were to commit a massacre and torture human beings. It is when you would consider your partner a part of your identity. It takes like years to form and tends to happens when parents love their children. It does not require trust because it will never ever fade away. It can happen between romantic partners.

And if your partner decides that the best way to show his love is to stab you multiple times and cannibalize you as you bleed out, is that still unconditional love for you Astamiss? Would you allow them to do this to you? 

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#1 Platonic love

Platonic love is the simplest of all types. There are no strings attached and no sexual intentions either. It’s pure, friendly and something we experience from a very young age when we still don’t know why we have the things we have inside our underwear.

The kind of relationships you share with siblings, close childhood friends and even a few grownup friends can fall right here. Do you remember the first time you missed a friend? That was probably your first platonic love moment.

#2 Limerence and crushes

Ever had a crush on someone? Of course you have! The first crush is a memorable experience, one that’s filled with confusing jolts in the stomach, sudden urges to throw up and a stupid sense of grinning satisfaction each time you see your crush. It’s a beautiful experience even if it did feel like your life depended on it at that time.

Limerence, on the other hand, is rather close to a crush but much more intense and “weird”. Have you ever like someone madly, but didn’t ever want to express your love for them, like a school teacher or an actor, or even a crush? 

#3 Unrequited love

Unrequited love is a love filled with heartbreaks and one that almost all of us have experienced. It’s the dreaded one sided love, where you like someone and you know that person will never like you back. They may be in a relationship, or they may just use you. You find yourself falling more in love with each passing day, even though you know you’ll never get any happiness out of this type of love. This is the type of love that gives love a bad name. 

#4 Obsessive love

Are you an obsessive lover or someone who’s addicted to their partner? Do you feel helpless and lonely without that special someone in your arm?

Are you sure you’re not bordering on being clingy? If you’ve ever been an obsessive lover, there’s a good chance you’ve sucked the life out of your partner and pissed them off until they eventually left you on the curb.

Obsessive love is usually experienced by the novices who experience love for the first time, probably after having to deal with the scary unrequited love. Obsessive lovers are scared, insecure, and obviously obsessive about the relationship It’s a stage all of us experience when we’re afraid of losing someone we love.

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#5 Selfish love

Selfish love is smart. And though it involves two people to create that relationship, selfish love also involves two people who are in love with one person.

Your partner loves you. You love you.

Selfish love is a narcissistic love where you don’t care about your partner or their happiness. You only care about yourself. If you ever find yourself getting into a relationship just for the heck of it without really falling in love with the other person, chances are, you’re a selfish lover.

#6 Awww love

Awww… that’s so cute. This type of love is the most spontaneous and yet, the one you’ll forget the soonest. It lasts for a few seconds, sometimes even less and some other times, a lot longer.

 

Do you love cats, dogs, goats… any animals at all? Or perhaps, a car or a tree? Sometimes, all of us feel an overwhelming sense of love for something or the other, and it doesn’t have to be a person. It’s love at first sight, and yet, it’s not something you’d want to sleep at night with (mostly). We’ve all experienced the heart melting awww when we look at vacation photos or a tiny kitten or a pup on youtube. Been there and done that, and yes, you’ve experienced another type of love.

#7 Same sex love (unless gay, then vice versa)

Ever felt an intense burst of happiness when you see a friend of the same sex? You’re both straight, you don’t cuddle and you don’t grope each other. But somehow you just love this person, and you either have a man crush or a girl crush on this friend of yours.

Same sex love is an emotion you’d feel for your friend or even a celebrity, but it’s got less to do with sexual attraction and more to do with awe, respect and admiration.

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#8 Lusty love

Ever dated someone who got you wet with a hug? Ever had a crush on someone who makes you want to do things to yourself when you’re alone in bed? Yeah, you’ve experienced lusty love! Lusty love is the type of love you experience when you lust for someone or get into a relationship with someone you’re extremely sexually attracted to. The first few weeks are all about sex and the positions, and both of you need just a few seconds of alone time to throw each other’s clothes on the floor. If a relationship of yours revolves more around the bed and less around trees and flowers, you’re in lusty love, my love.

#9 Romantic love

Butterflies, bliss and Louis Armstrong’s ‘what a wonderful’ is all you need to think of when you experience romantic love. It’s beautiful, sappy love at its best.

You feel the flutter of butterflies in your stomach, the world looks so much more beautiful and you can’t hold that grin back no matter what you do. You want to be with your sweetheart all the time, and even when you’re not together, you can’t help wanting to be together.

#10 Unconditional love

Blessed are the lovers who experience this special type of love for each other. It’s not easy and it’s definitely not something most people even want to try. But if you do ever take a leap of faith, you’d see what true love really feels like.

Do you love someone more than you love yourself? Do you care about your lover more than you care about anything else is the world? Chances are, you may be experiencing unconditional love. Unconditional love is the stuff fairy tales and romance novels are made of. If both of you care about each other and love each other selflessly, you’re in the middle of a special type of love that few ever experience, but spend all their lives looking for.

If you do want to ensure that you experience this tenth type of love, take a leap of faith and truly fall back in love with someone who loves you. 

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I don't necessarily agree with the list... It did give me the idea to put this song.

"Shot through the heart, and you're to blame
You give love a bad name
I play my part and you play your game
You give love a bad name"

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A chemical reaction in the brain designed to induce mating behavior when a suitable partner is in regular close proximity.

Suitability is generally determined by ability to meet needs (a weak person might choose someone who is strong, someone who is financially useless will be more interested in someone who is financially stable) and scent-markers for genetic compatibility (you like the smell of people whose genes are more diverse than yours, which is beneficial to offspring).

 

Platonic love is the result of social-species instincts and exists for the purpose of survival (which facilitates more opportunity for breeding) through sharing of burdens and resources.

 

Everything comes back to self-replication. That's all nature gives a fuck about, so that's all we give a fuck about. Everything we think we care about is an illusion brought on by a freakishly, uselessly-- unto being burdensome, overdeveloped brain.

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The image makes more sense to me in reverse: 

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This is how many people feel love is like...

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