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Types of love
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RE: Types of love
July 5, 2015 at 4:48 pm (This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 4:49 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Love is the situation that exists when another person's happiness is essential to your own.  This definition can be checked by inverting it:  If you are indifferent to another person's happiness (or unhappiness), you cannot 'love' them without stretching the word out of all recognizable shape.

This definition seems to encapsulate all kinds of love, but it can sometimes be hard to differentiate it from other kinds of attraction:  fondness, codependence, friendship, affection and so on.

Put another way, love is having the same feeling about someone when you're NOT horny.

Boru
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Types of love - by paulpablo - July 4, 2015 at 7:01 am
RE: Types of love - by ignoramus - July 4, 2015 at 7:16 am
RE: Types of love - by paulpablo - July 4, 2015 at 7:32 am
RE: Types of love - by brewer - July 4, 2015 at 7:33 am
RE: Types of love - by Longhorn - July 4, 2015 at 8:30 am
RE: Types of love - by ignoramus - July 4, 2015 at 8:33 am
RE: Types of love - by vorlon13 - July 4, 2015 at 9:27 am
RE: Types of love - by alfredomegar - July 5, 2015 at 2:54 am
RE: Types of love - by Whateverist - July 4, 2015 at 11:02 am
RE: Types of love - by popsthebuilder - July 4, 2015 at 11:06 am
RE: Types of love - by Whateverist - July 4, 2015 at 11:20 am
RE: Types of love - by c172 - July 4, 2015 at 11:27 am
RE: Types of love - by paulpablo - July 4, 2015 at 6:07 pm
RE: Types of love - by Pyrrho - July 4, 2015 at 2:47 pm
RE: Types of love - by paulpablo - July 4, 2015 at 6:06 pm
RE: Types of love - by Pyrrho - July 4, 2015 at 11:16 pm
RE: Types of love - by paulpablo - July 5, 2015 at 3:48 pm
RE: Types of love - by ignoramus - July 4, 2015 at 9:03 pm
RE: Types of love - by robvalue - July 5, 2015 at 3:18 am
RE: Types of love - by Pyrrho - July 5, 2015 at 1:29 pm
RE: Types of love - by Longhorn - July 5, 2015 at 6:06 pm
RE: Types of love - by bennyboy - July 5, 2015 at 4:00 am
RE: Types of love - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 5, 2015 at 4:48 pm
RE: Types of love - by ignoramus - July 5, 2015 at 8:24 pm

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