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Old Mar 01, 2015, 06:54 AM
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In the tv series Smallville Clark Kent has girls/women he loves in different ways. In the end he turns up marrying Lois lane and having a friendship will Chloe Sullivan. The thing is that when he married Lois Lane that was due to him having a friendship with her (that's why you would marry someone). My philosophical question is about love and friendship: You can have feelings for different girls/women like Clark Kent but you only marry one of them. What is the different between the love Clark Kent has for Chloe and Lois?
What is the psychological/psychiatric answer(s) to this?

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Old Mar 02, 2015, 12:49 AM
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In the synopsis of Smallvile Clark Kent, Chloe was like a sister friend that was someone Clark just bonded to.

Lois was more of a romance that had other aspects besides friendship, like physical attraction IMO.

The closest thing I could find to a psychological discussion of this is a link to articles on Psych Central.
Psych Central - Search results for Differences between friendship and romance
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