The choice is modern courtship…
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A friendship is a non-sexual relationship of mutual fondness, appreciation, and trust between people. Sometimes, this kind of relationship is also called ‘platonic,’ or ‘philia’ in Greek terms. What is Love | What is Romantic Love | What is Erotic Love | Friendship | What is Arranged Love | What is Real Love | What (more…)
True love is a ‘real love’ that outlasted the inevitable ups and downs of life, a real love that endured the test of time. True love is rare, very rare. What is Love | What is Romantic Love | What is Erotic Love | What is Friendship | What is Arranged Love | What is (more…)
Real love is when and while it lasts. It is a new belonging and may have started as romantic love, erotic love, friendship, or even ‘arranged love.’ What is Love | What is Romantic Love | What is Erotic Love | What is Friendship | What is Arranged Love | What is Soulmate Love | (more…)
Erotic or amorous love, or simply ‘eros’ in Greek terms, is a love that is borne out of instincts reflected in sensual needs and wants. It is a love that wants to ‘possess’ the other — the object of desire — even if only for a moment. What is Love | What is Romantic Love (more…)
Romantic love is a phenomenon that, at its simplest, might be described as the early stage of an unfolding relationship in which one seeks and responds to an enticing and promising other, driven by personal preference rather than familial obligations. Romantic love then seeks to last forever, while the lovers are not together yet. What (more…)
My simple view of love’s genesis goes like this: the construct of love assembles in consciousness in the form of Gestalt and fosters a new sense of belonging for the lovers. This is provided for by the binary nature of biological sex, which is entailed by primeval instincts and needs that evoke, stir and arouse (more…)
The Trouble With Love And Sex is a hybrid of documentary and animation produced by BBC Productions, which takes a look inside other people’s real-life relationships as they spill their troubles to relationship counselors. Clients wrestle with champagne-soaked fantasies and impotence, with dark family secrets and shocking confessions of infidelity. Clicking the image above or (more…)
A ladder to the good or a blind desire to procreate? Plato, de Beauvoir, and Schopenhauer explain what love is. https://www.cbc.ca/life/wellness/love-advice-from-three-of-philosophy-s-deepest-thinkers-1.4521152
Fear of loss of love is a theme that Hannah Arendt wrote about.