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Abstractly discussed love usually refers to an experience one person feels for another. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing (cf. vulnerability and care theory of love), including oneself (cf. narcissism)
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Helen Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love, divides the experience of love into three partly overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust is the feeling of sexual desire; romantic attraction determines what partners mates find attractive and pursue, conserving time and energy by choosing; and attachment involves sharing a home, parental duties, mutual defense, and in humans involves feelings of safety and security.[20] Three distinct neural circuitries, including neurotransmitters, and three behavioral patterns, are associated with these three romantic styles.
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Sternberg formulated a triangular theory of love and argued that love has three different components: intimacy, commitment, and passion.
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forms of love are viewed as varying combinations of these three components. Non-love does not include any of these components. Liking only includes intimacy. Infatuated love only includes passion. Empty love only includes commitment. Romantic love includes both intimacy and passion. Companionate love includes intimacy and commitment. Fatuous love includes passion and commitment. Lastly, consummate love includes all three
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when it comes to character and personality—people tend to like people similar to themselves
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Fromm held that love is ultimately not a feeling at all, but rather is a commitment to, and adherence to, loving actions towards another, oneself, or many others, over a sustained duration
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Humans are dependent on parental help for a large portion of their lifespans compared to other mammals. Love has therefore been seen as a mechanism to promote parental support of children for this extended time period
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is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[1] It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[2] It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.[3]
Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek, storge), friendship (philia), sexual and/or romantic desire (eros), and self-emptying or divine love (agape).[4][5] Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love.[6] Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states.[7] This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
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attitudes that ranges from
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Ellie WestThe English word "love" can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from interpersonal affection ("I love my lover") to pleasure ("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong attraction and personal attachment.[1] It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another"
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ip based on things like shared interests. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin to a greater degree than short-term relationships have.[19] Enzo Emanuele and coworkers reported the protein molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) has high levels when people first fall in love, but these return to previous levels after one year.[20]
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Love may be understood as part of the survival instinct, a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.[7]
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Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another"
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Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. [1] Love is also said to be a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[2] Love may describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals. [3]
In English , love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure ("I loved that meal") to interpersonal attraction ("I love my partner"). "Love" may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love , to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship, [4] or to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love [5] , or to a concept of love that encompasses all of those feelings. This
1diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define , compared to other emotional states.3Love 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 . [6]Love may be understood as part of the survival instinct, a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species. [7]
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Love is an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment.[1] Love is also a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection —"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another".[2] Love may describe actions towards others or oneself based on compassion or affection.[3]
In English, love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure ("I loved that meal") to interpersonal attraction ("I love my partner"). "Love" may refer specifically to the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love, to the sexual love of eros, to the emotional closeness of familial love, to the platonic love that defines friendship,[4] or to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love[5], or to a concept of love that encompasses all of those
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3.3 Evolutionary basis
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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representing a
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ay also be described as actions towards others (or oneself) based on compassion, or as actions towards others based on affection.[4]
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to facilitate the continuatio
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he Persian word for love is eshgh, derived from the Arabic ishq, however is considered by most to be too stalwart a term for interpersonal love and is more commonly substituted for 'doost dashtan' ('liking'). In the Persian culture, everything is encompassed by love and all is for love, starting from loving friends and family, husbands and wives, and eventually reaching the divine love that is the ultimate goal in life. Over seven centuries ago, Sa'di wrote:
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- The children of Adam are limbs of one body
- Having been created of one essence.
- When the calamity of time afflicts one limb
- The other limbs cannot remain at rest.
- If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others
- You are not worthy to be called by the name of "man."
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"Ai," the traditional Chinese character for love (愛) consists of a heart (middle) inside of "accept," "feel," or "perceive," which shows a graceful emotion. It can also be interpreted as a hand offering ones heart to another hand.
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Amae (甘え), a Japanese word meaning "indulgent dependence," is part of the child-rearing culture of Japan. Japanese mothers are expected to hug and indulge their children, and children are expected to reward their mothers by clinging and serving. Some sociologists have suggested that Japanese social interactions in later life are modeled on the mother-child amae.
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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Christianity">Christianity</span></h4><br/><p>The Christian understanding is that love comes from God. The love of man and woman—<i>eros</i> in Greek—and the unselfish love of others (<i>agape</i>), are often contrasted as "ascending" and "descending" love, respectively, but are ultimately the same thing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vatican1_24-0"><a rel="nofollow" href="#cite_note-vatican1-24"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a></sup></p><br/><p>There are several Greek words for "love" that are regularly referred to in Christian circles.</p><br/><ul><br/><li><i><a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Agape" title="Agape">Agape</a></i>: In the <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a>, <i>agapē</i> is charitable, selfless, altruistic, and unconditional. It is parental love, seen as creating goodness in the world; it is the way <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> is seen to love humanity, and it is seen as the kind of love that Christians aspire to have for one another.</li><br/><li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/Phileo" title="Phileo">Phileo</a></i>: Also used in the New Testament, <i>phileo</i> is a human response to something that is found to be delightful. Also known as "brotherly love."</li><br/><li>Two other <a rel="nofollow" href="#Ancient_Greek">words for love in the Greek language</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/Eros_%28love%29" title="Eros (love)">eros</a></i> (sexual love) and <i><a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Storge" title="Storge">storge</a></i> (child-to-parent love), were never used in the New Testament.</li><br/></ul><br/><p><a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christians</a> believe that to <i>Love God with all your heart, mind, and strength</i> and <i>Love your <a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/Neighbor" title="Neighbor">neighbor</a> as yourself</i> are the two most important things in life (the <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Great_Commandment" title="Great Commandment">greatest commandment</a> of the Jewish <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>, according to <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus">Jesus</a>; cf. <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark">Gospel of Mark</a> chapter 12, verses 28–34). <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Saint Augustine</a> summarized this when he wrote "<i>Love God, and do as thou wilt</i>."</p><br/><div class="thumb tleft"><br/><div class="thumbinner" style="width: 172px;"><a rel="nofollow" class="image" href="/wiki/File:Baglione.jpg"><img class="thumbimage" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Baglione.jpg/170px-Baglione.jpg" height="255" width="170" alt=""></a><br/><div class="thumbcaption"><br/><div class="magnify"><a rel="nofollow" class="internal" href="/wiki/File:Baglione.jpg" title="Enlarge"><img src="//bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.18/common/images/magnify-clip.png" height="11" width="15" alt=""></a></div><br/><i>Sacred Love Versus Profane Love</i> (1602–03) by <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Giovanni_Baglione" title="Giovanni Baglione">Giovanni Baglione</a></div><br/></div><br/></div><br/><p><a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/The_Apostle_Paul" title="The Apostle Paul">The Apostle Paul</a> glorified love as the most important virtue of all. Describing love in the famous poem in <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians" title="First Epistle to the Corinthians">1 Corinthians</a>, he wrote, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres." (<a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/1_Corinthians" title="1 Corinthians">1 Cor.</a> 13:4–7, <a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/NIV" title="NIV">NIV</a>)</p><br/><table class="vertical-navbox nowraplinks" cellpadding="0" style="float: right; clear: right; color: black; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 0pt 0pt 1em 1em; padding: 0.2em; border-spacing: 0.4em 0pt; text-align: center; line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 88%; width: 18em;" cellspacing="5"><br/><tbody><tr><br/><th class="" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 0pt 0.2em 0.4em; font-size: 150%; line-height: 1.5em;"><a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Interpersonal_relationship" title="Interpersonal relationship">Relationships</a></th><br/></tr><br/><tr><br/><td style="padding-top: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em;"><br/><div class="NavFrame collapsed" style="border: medium none; padding: 0pt;" id="NavFrame5"><br/><div class="NavHead" style="font-size: 105%; 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word-spacing: -0.12em;"><a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Template:Close_relationships" title="Template:Close relationships"><span style="" title="View this template">v</span></a> <span style=""><b>·</b></span> <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Template_talk:Close_relationships" title="Template talk:Close relationships"><span style="" title="Discuss this template">d</span></a> <span style=""><b>·</b></span> <a rel="nofollow" href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Close_relationships&action=edit" class="external text"><span style="" title="Edit this template">e</span></a></span></span></td><br/></tr><br/></tbody></table><br/><p><a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/John_the_Apostle" title="John the Apostle">The Apostle John</a> wrote, <i>"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him."</i> (<a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">John</a> 3:16–17, NIV) John also wrote, <i>"Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."</i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/1_John" title="1 John">1 John</a> 4:7–8, NIV)</p><br/><p>Saint Augustine says that one must be able to decipher the difference between love and lust. Lust, according to Saint Augustine, is an overindulgence, but to love and be loved is what he has sought for his entire life. He even says, <i>“I was in love with love.”</i> Finally, he does fall in love and is loved back, by God. Saint Augustine says the only one who can love you truly and fully is God, because love with a human only allows for flaws such as <i>“jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger, and contention.”</i> According to Saint Augustine, to love God is <i>“to attain the peace which is yours.”</i> (Saint Augustine's Confessions)</p><br/><p>Christian <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theologians</a> see God as the source of love, which is mirrored in humans and their own loving relationships. Influential Christian theologian <a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/C.S._Lewis" title="C.S. Lewis">C.S. Lewis</a> wrote a book called <i><a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/The_Four_Loves" title="The Four Loves">The Four Loves</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/Benedict_XVI" title="Benedict XVI">Benedict XVI</a> wrote his first <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Encyclical" title="Encyclical">encyclical</a> on "<a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/Deus_caritas_est" title="Deus caritas est">God is love</a>". He said that a human being, created in the image of God, who is love, is able to practice love; to give himself to God and others (<a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Agape" title="Agape">agape</a>) and by receiving and experiencing God's love in contemplation (eros). This life of love, according to him, is the life of the saints such as <a rel="nofollow" href="/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa">Teresa of Calcutta</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/Blessed_Virgin_Mary" title="Blessed Virgin Mary">Blessed Virgin Mary</a> and is the direction Christians take when they believe that God loves them.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-vatican1_24-1"><a rel="nofollow" href="#cite_note-vatican1-24"><span>[</span>25<span>]</span></a></sup></p><br/><p>In Christianity the practical definition of love is best summarised by <a rel="nofollow" class="mw-redirect" href="/wiki/St._Thomas_Aquinas" title="St. Thomas Aquinas">St. Thomas Aquinas</a>, who defined love as "to will the good of another," or to desire for another to succeed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-newadvent.org_9-1"><a rel="nofollow" href="#cite_note-newadvent.org-9"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a></sup> This is the explanation of the Christian need to love others, including their enemies. As Thomas Aquinas explains, Christian love is motivated by the need to see others succeed in life, to be good people.</p>
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Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment.[1] In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels.[2] Love may also be described as actions towards others (or oneself) based on compassion, or as actions towards others based on affection.[3]
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variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure
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When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing (cf. vulnerability and care theory of love), including oneself (cf. narcissism). In addition to cros
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In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection. Love is central to many religions, as in the Christian phrase, "God is love" or Agape in the Canonical gospels.[2] Love may also be described as actions towards others (or oneself) based on compassion.[3] Or as actions towards others based on affection.[3]
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In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection.
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Science defines what could be understood as love as an evolved state of the survival instinct, primarily used to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species through reproduction.[7]
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Helen Fisher, a leading expert in the topic of love, divides the experience of love into three partly overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment.
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Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act in a manner similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years.
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linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin to a greater degree than short-term relationships have.
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reported the protein molecule known as the nerve growth factor (NGF) has high levels when people first fall in love, but these return to previous levels after one year.
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Psychology sees love as more of a social and cultural phenomenon. There are probably elements of truth in both views. Certainly love is influenced by hormones (such as oxytocin), neurotrophins (such as NGF), and pheromones, and how people think and behave in love is influenced by their conceptions of love
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In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human kindness, compassion, and affection
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love has three different components: intimacy, commitment, and passion.
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attachment, caring, and intimacy.
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love is an activity, not simply a feeling.
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Love creates activity in the same area of the brain where hunger, thirst, and drug cravings create activity.
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Add Sticky NoteLove 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.
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love does come in many ways and espically when you least expect it
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Add Sticky Notelove can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my husband").
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Let me break this down this means that there are a lot of different kinds of meaning to love then just one
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Add Sticky Notediversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define
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I double checked this and they are right about love being confusing...
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I wonder if when you truly are in love if you should get TOO jealous over your boyfriend or girlfriend?
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Add Sticky Notelimited 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[2] to the profound oneness or devotion of religious love.[3]
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There isn't just sexual love. There are family love religious love and friendly love
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Add Sticky NoteAs an abstract concept, love usually refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of tenderly caring for another person
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This is important because when you love someone you get butterflies in your tummy and you get nervous and shy
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Add Sticky NoteLove 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.
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Love does come in many different ways. But many peope mistaken them for love in a realtionship. Which is most common.
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Make your tweets in descussion, nerd!
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Add Sticky NoteThe English word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that English relies mainly on "love" to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love." Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition.[4]
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I wonder how love comes out in Portugese. I mean the true meaning of amor?
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Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't love. As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, although other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.
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Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. These effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months. Attraction is the more individualized and romantic desire for a specific candidate for mating, which develops out of lust as commitment to an individual mate forms. Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act in a manner similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years.[9]
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Add Sticky NoteWhen discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself (cf. narcissism).
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This is important because it is stating that the love we all know of and consider love is romantic love. Which is when you love and take care of the person you have passionate feelings for.
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Add Sticky NoteIn addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages, although the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient love poetry.[5]
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This sort of reminds me of Romeo and Juliet. They were the most passionate love birds I ever heard of.
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passoniate and very romantic.they sacraficied it all for each other
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Add Sticky NoteBecause of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to the Beatles' "All you need is love." Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value," as opposed to relative value. Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said that love is "to be delighted by the happiness of another."[6]
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I wonder on who Gottifried Leibniz is? I also wonder on who Bertrand Russell is?
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Philosophers, my dear. Search them on Wikipedia. Pls make your highlights and comments private so other Diigos don't have to look at them. Thanks.
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Add Sticky NoteA person can be said to love a country, principle, or goal if they value it greatly and are deeply committed to it. Similarly, compassionate outreach and volunteer workers' "love" of their cause may sometimes be borne not of interpersonal love, but impersonal love coupled with altruism and strong political convictions. People can also "love" material objects, animals, or activities if they invest themselves in bonding or otherwise identifying with those things. If sexual passion is also involved, this condition is called paraphilia.[7]
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This is important because it explains how important love is. But this paragraph is just explaining when you love materialistic objects, or animals, etc.
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Add Sticky NoteInterpersonal love refers to love between human beings. It is a more potent sentiment than a simple liking for another. Unrequited love refers to those feelings of love that are not reciprocated. Interpersonal love is most closely associated with interpersonal relationships. Such love might exist between family members, friends, and couples. There are also a number of psychological disorders related to love, such as erotomania.
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Now this is human love. Like in physical relationships. But this isn't just with boyfriends or girlfriends this is also with family and friends
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so its basically the love you dish out daily
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she must have went through it beiing that she"s so knowledgable on the whole topic
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Add Sticky NoteThroughout history, philosophy and religion have done the most speculation on the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. In recent years, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have added to the understanding of the nature and function of love.
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I wonder how the world would be without LOVE?
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experience of love into three partly overlapping stages: lust, attraction, and attachment. Lust exposes people to others; romantic attraction encourages people to focus their energy on mating; and attachment involves tolerating the spouse (or indeed the child) long enough to rear a child into infancy.
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Since the lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary, a third stage is needed to account for long-term relationships. Attachment is the bonding that promotes relationships lasting for many years and even decades. Attachment is generally based on commitments such as marriage and children, or on mutual friendship based on things like shared interests. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin and vasopressin to a greater degree than short-term relationships have.[9]
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lust and attraction stages are both considered temporary
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Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection[1] and attachment. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. The word love is both a verb and a noun. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.
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