I think that there are many different kinds of love. In English we have this one word... I think there were around 7 different words for different kind of love in Ancient Greek...
Fatherly love
Motherly love
Brotherly love
Romantic love
Platonic love (friendly love)
and I forget the rest.
What is love?
Some people think love is a feeling...
If you love someone then you feel warm loving feelings for them.
Some people think love is in behaviour...
If you love someone then you act with their welfare in mind.
Some people seem incapable of loving behaviour... Mostly because... They don't know how. Trouble with the feeling is that it can come and go... Especially when the feeling is intense.
Some people think love is a committment... When there are warm feelings of positive regard (rather than overt feelings of lust or whatever). When there is friendship and companionship. When there is a committment to be with one another.
I think...
Love takes time... Time to decide whether you want to committ or not... But loving behaviours and respect for others welfare is something that we can foster all the time...
I don't know... Dunno if this helps.
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