Love is a basic human emotion, but understanding
how and why it happens is not necessarily easy. In fact, for a long time, many
people suggested that love was simply something to primal, mysterious, and
spiritual for science to ever fully understand.
1. Love is made up
of three elements: attachment, caring and intimacy. Attachment is the
need to receive care, approval, and physical contact with the other person.
Caring involves valuing the other person’s needs and happiness as much as your
own. Intimacy refers to the sharing of thoughts, desires, and feelings with the
other person.
2. Compassionate love is characterized by mutual respect,
attachment, affection, and trust. Compassionate love usually develops out of
feelings of mutual understanding and shared respect for one another.
3. Passionate love is characterized by intense emotions,
sexual attraction, anxiety, and affection. When these intense emotions are
reciprocated, people feel elated and fulfilled. Unreciprocated love leads to
feelings of despondence and despair. passionate love arises when cultural
expectations encourage falling in love, when the person meets your preconceived
ideas of an ideal love, and when you experience heightened physiological
arousal in the presence of the other person. Ideally, passionate love then
leads to compassionate love, which is far more enduring. While most people
desire relationships that combine the security and stability of compassionate
with the intensity of passionate love.
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