From Eros to Saudade: Understanding Love Through the Words

Love for words to words of love.
Here is one more blog on words. Love can be very varied ? from Eros (Passionate Love) to Agape (Selfless Love).

Here is one more blog on words. Love can be very varied ? from Eros (Passionate Love) to Agape (Selfless Love).


thanks to Grok for this image

In between, there are:
Philia ? Deep Friendship
Storge ? Familial Love
Ludus ? Playful Love
Pragma ? Enduring Love
Mania ? Obsessive Love
All the images are from Pinterest. Thanks for suggesting these words to me.

So six types, they say.
If someone can experience all of these in a relationship, it could be ethereal, I guess. But it?s unrealistic to think so, as we understand from lived experience.

Although love as a feeling is unexplainable, the love I have for my son I would consider the ultimate ? unconditional and mostly unadulterated. I do have my moments when I cease to be just a human and not the mom, so the usage of ?mostly.?

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