My wife asked me this several years ago when we were going through a bad time because of thing i was doing. i won't put here what i wrote her because it was several pages. to sum it up there are different types of love. family love is what you have for family that you still like, even if you hate them once in a while. friend love is care about a friend enough to be there when they need you and they would do the same to you. relationship love is like a industrial fire works show. pretty at times, loud at times, and deadly/dangerous if someone is not paying attention. not sure if this makes sense to anyone. not real good at putting thought to "paper" any more.