The dictionary lists some two dozen meanings of the word ¡§love¡¨. People seem to have their own definitions where love is concerned, many emotional conflicts and relational dynamics make simple definitions difficult.

Love has often been characterized as an ambivalent feeling ¡V A blissful joy when one is with the beloved and a painful ¡§sickness¡¨ and ¡§torture¡¨ when lovers are separated.

Freud (1905) looks at love from the perspective of the sexual drive. According to him love as well as sexuality is rooted in infancy. A persons first love object is the mother. The mother¡¦s breast provides the infant not only with nourishment but also a source of sexual pleasure which he will later seek from his adult lover (for girls, the object of love somehow later becomes the father). Freud views adult love and sexualit

If two people who have been strangers as all of us are, suddenly let the wall between them break down and feel close, feel a moment of oneness it is the most exciting, miraculous, exhilarating experience in life. This type of love is by its nature not lasting. The 2 persons become well acquainted, their intimacy loses more and more its miraculous character until their disappointments and boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement. Yet in the beginning they do not know this: in fact, they take the intensity of the infatuation the being ¡§crazy¡¨ about each other for proof of the intensity of their love while it may only prove the degree of their preceeding lonliness. Being in love can make us deliriously happy as the intensity of passionate emotion overwhelms us.

b. women: to make oneself attractive;

Fromm Stated that there are Five Types of Love

Loving, is more realistic than being in love, it is usually longer term however it is still based on our needs. Loving is something we must decide to do. By our wishes we can make the decision to become more loving. A loving person is more loveable. Thus, for such a person, within his or her romantic love life, as we exhibit a loving nature we then become, for that very special person in our life, increasingly loveable. Love is like happiness. It's a choice.

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