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For example the love one has for one's mother, brother or father will be totally different fro the love for one's partner! Am I wrong?

2007-01-07 05:19:56 · 7 answers · asked by Shahnaz . S 1 in Social Science Psychology

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I think you are correct. There are different kinds of love. I love my children differently from how I loved my parents and all of them differently from how I love my husband. Perhaps the most intense love of all is love for your grandchildren. That is a love like no other.

There are even different kinds of love that you can have for a spouse. I loved my first husband differently than I love my current husband. With my first husband we were young, and we were both looking for different things than my current husband and I were looking for when we found each other. Love changes and grows and evolves with time, so yes, it varies in nature and degree.

2007-01-07 05:25:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Of course there are different types of love.

You have the typical family love, where you love them because they are family, and sometimes that can even mean not being necessarily blood related.

Then you have the emotional love, where you're emotionally attached to someone, you're need of attention from that person and passion.

And then you have the physical love, where you often think sexually about a person, and the need to do things physically together.

You can also have friendship love, similarly to the family love, you see that person as a brother/sister rather than a partner.

And thats not all either, you can have mixtures of them all, like for example, sometimes you can have a friend in which whom you love in the friendship way but can still feel physical attraction.

2007-01-07 15:41:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

There are no 'Rules' for this. If there were, how could you measure a subjective series / sequence of emotions?

Is there a Richter Scale for these?

If you were an American, you might write....

I soo Love him / her....

I sooo Love him / her....

I Soooooooo Love him / her.....

but that really wouldn't tell you too much. It might simply suggest the child-like inability to express an emotion beyond the limited vocabulary of one.

Emotions for 'family' generally wax and wane, they are rarely 'fixed,' so to with 'Lovers / Partners' ~ else we wouldn't be able to function properly in our every day lives ~ finding ourselves run over by a bus through thinking of the 'wrong thing at the wrong time.'

I nearly missed my point here. You are correct in thinking that Love for a partner is 'different' from that of members of your family, otherwise incest would be a great deal more rife than it presently is.

Sash.

2007-01-07 20:37:21 · answer #3 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0 0

No, you're right. Love doesn't just go away because someone else steps into your life that you love. You'll always love your parents and siblings, but they will shift from the main focus of your life into the background as you get older. The love doesn't just go away, even if your relationship changes or deteriorates. I believe that once having loved someone, you'll never lose the love you had.

2007-01-07 13:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly 3 · 0 0

Totally correct. This is where the English language shows its limitations. Whereas Greek has four words for love, one being for family, (storge) one for brotherly love (philia, eg. philidelphia = the city of brotherly love) Eros, the romantic love and Agape, a disinterested love that you feel for others, not because of the person that they are, but because of the person YOU are.

All said simply in four easy words.
Say LOVE in english to anyone and they will all interpret it differently.

2007-01-07 13:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by breezinabout 3 · 0 0

Love has no distinction whether its love for a family member a pet or a loved one, learn to love yourself first and the world will love you.

2007-01-08 09:29:15 · answer #6 · answered by djdundalk 5 · 0 0

No! My love for my husband is completely different to that of my family! Jesus! If it was all the same that would be soooooooooooo wrong!

2007-01-11 08:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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