Do you think the concept of Love has changed over time?

Answer 1

love is ever changing,when you first meet someone, its romantic love,when you're still discovering one and other,then after the honeymoon period if you like,it changes to a comfortable love.
But there are so many different types of love you could go on about it all day,there is also the love you feel for your children and your grandchildren when you have them,everyone has a different perception,in my opinion romantic love seems to go hand in hand with sex now,and once the sex is over,so is the love.

Answer 2

No, I think this is an age old emotion that will never change. Since the begining there has been the same love for (mother and child) (father and child) and (man and woman) This is one thing that will remain constant untill the end of time

Maybe people have blurred the preception of love but it has not changed it still exists.

Answer 3

Some of these answers are referring to sexual attraction love only. Must be the only kind worth talking about then. It's a rather depressing way of putting it, but you can measure the depth of love by the agony of loss, which in itself is immeasurable. So that particular aspect of the love 'concept' hasn't really changed at all. Thankfully.

Answer 4

Yes it has and it is very sad -- that's why there is so much divorce and it is also the reason for a lot of other problems in this world -- people need to turn to God and ask forgiveness and change the way they live -- it is the only way things will change.

Answer 5

No. Love has always been, and will always be whatever it was (sorry, I don't know how to explain it in words). What changed is our perception of love. Nowadays, we (some people) associate love with, as the others have mentioned, sex. But love is still love. It doesn't have anything to do with lust.

Answer 6

I do not think that the concept of Love in and of itself has changed. What has changed is what people think love is or how people define love. Love is eternal and transcends everything. For example Love can lead to sex but sex can happen totally independently of love and love can happen independently of sex. Love when truly present, lasts longer.

Answer 7

Yes of course it has changed over time, and will continue to change.

Answer 8

Yes, it has devolved into "love of a person or humankind" rather than its original useage, meaning "awareness of the abstract experience of reality we long for." Without that kind of love our lives are meaningless.

Answer 9

Yes, I do. Love used to mean that one truly cared for his significant other and wished to be with HER for all eternity. Now, Love means that he wants to be with her (or maybe him) for one night until he gets what he wants. Love has definitely been adulterized nowadays.

Answer 10

The concept of love has changed over time for a number of reasons. It has changed due to the death of distance between people, and places, and therefore death of a sense of separation and longing for the company of people of our dreams. There use to be times when this world was full of far off places that captivated and preserved our romantic, dreams allowing the mind to wander a bit in romantic fantasies. I for example, used to think of meeting someone in Paris, Rome, London, Timbuktu, Java Sumatra, Istanbul or Moscow, but now I know these places. I know that these places are not very different from the place I live in. I know that they are only a few hours’ flight away; people can commute to places that they could only dream about in the past.

Distances in between people and space around in general add a great deal to romanitic abilities of the mind. But distances are no the only factor influencing our attitude of romance and love in present times. There are other things too that have come in the wake of recent technological, social, and personal developments. The emergence of global culture facilitated by the advent of information technology, for example, has made it very possible for people all over the world to access each other without having to bother about them personally, without having to share life together to know them. This is also true that we are taking this access for granted. We are taking people who we interact with for granted, as though there were merely some advanced software on our computer, or some fleeting bright shadows on our TV screen.

The boost in our spending ability, or buying power in the consumer cultures of the affluent societies of the world, has brought ease and extra comfort in our life, but it has, at the same time, devalued the cost of attached to human life, to human effort that goes into production of the goods that we purchase without having to do much or go very far from the comfort zones of normal habitat.

The concept of love, in my view, is no merely passion we feel towards opposite sex, or towards people we find lovable. Human need for loving and love is as essential part of human nature and therefore a fundamental contributor to essential human condition throughout ages. We have always liked to be with people we liked. In old times the mind of an ordinary person used to have concerns of different type: there were loyalties to be regarded, life-long affiliation to be taken considered, and then there were not so many people able to get to know so many various other people as easily as they can now. We have given ourselves personal freedom form many things that were traditionally part and parcel of a normal life. We have earned ourselves the widest range of choices so far, but at the cost of an ever-diminishing sense of commitment and responsibility toward each other.