- For the 1960s band, see Love (band). The term is also used in tennis.
- love between family members: parent's love of children, etc.
- love of friends
- romantic love
- sexual love
- loving one another in general
- loving something abstract or inanimate
- loving one's nation or home country (patriotism)
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In an attempt to explain the commonalities and differences of the many types of love, Robert Sternberg has suggested a view of love involving three elements: intimacy, passion and commitment. Different stages and types of love can be explained as different combinations of the three elements. The combinations are as follows.
The Unification Church defines love in philosophical terms as "the emotional force given by the Subject to the Object". The church classifies love into three types:
Psychological views
As a person develops their relationship with a loved one over time, the relative strengths of the elements tends to change. Generally love will start off strong in passion but weak in the other elements. However as time passes, the other elements may grow and passion may shrink -- this depends upon the individual. So what starts as Infatuation or Empty love may well develop into one of the fuller types of love. Likewise when a person has known a loved one for a long time, passion may fade, changing love from Consummate to Companionate, or from Romantic love to Liking. Note that the feeling which Sternberg terms passion is similar to, if not the same as, that termed limerence by Dorothy Tennov. Sternberg states that a relationship based on a single element is less likely to survive than one based on two or more.Religious views
Quotes about love
See also:
Human love
Other types of love (philias)
Wiktionary
References