1. Love is any of a number of emotions related to a
sense of strong affection and attachment.
The word love can refer to a variety of different
feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from
generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense
interpersonal attraction("I love my husband").
States This diversity of uses and meanings,
combined with the complexity of the feelings
involved, makes love unusually difficult to
consistently define, even compared to other
emotional aspects.

2. As an abstract concept, love usually
refers to a deep, ineffable feeling of
tenderly caring for another person.
Even this limited conception of love,
however, encompasses a wealth of
different feelings, from the passionate
desire and intimacy of romantic love to
the nonsexual emotional closeness of
familial and platonic love

3. to the profound oneness or
devotion of religious love Love in
its various forms acts as a major
facilitator of interpersonal
relationships and, owing to its
central psychological importance,
is one of the most common
themes in the creative arts.

4. When discussed in the abstract,
love usually refers to interpersonal
love, an experience felt by a person
for another person.
Love often involves caring for or
identifying with a person or thing,
including oneself (cf. narcissism).

5. Love is sometimes referred to as being
the "international language",
overriding cultural and linguistic
divisions.
IMPERSONAL LOVE
A person can be said to love an object,
principle, or goal if they value it greatly
and are deeply committed to it.

6. People can also "love" material
objects, animals, or activities if
they invest themselves in bonding
or otherwise identifying with those
things. If sexual passion is also
involved, this condition is called
paraphilia

7. Interpersonal love
Interpersonal love refers to love between human
beings. It is a more potent sentiment than a simple
liking for another. Unrequited love refers to those
feelings of love that are not reciprocated.
Interpersonal love is most closely associated with
interpersonal relationships. Such love might exist
between family members, friends, and couples.
There are also a number of psychological disorders
related to love, such as erotomania

8. Since the lust and attraction stages
are both considered temporary, a
third stage is needed to account for
long-term relationships.
Attachment is the bonding that
promotes relationships lasting for
many years and even decades.

9. . Attachment is generally based on
commitments such as marriage
and children, or on mutual
friendship based on things like
shared interests. It has been linked
to higher levels of the chemicals
oxytocin and vasopressin to a
greater degree than short-term
relationships have

10. Psychology depicts love as a
cognitive and social phenomenon.
Psychologist Robert Sternberg
formulated a triangular theory of
love and argued that love has three
different components: intimacy,
commitment, and passion.

11. Intimacy is a form in which two
people share confidences and
various details of their personal
lives, and is usually shown in
friendships and romantic love
affairs

12. Commitment, on the other hand, is
the expectation that the
relationship is permanent.
The last and most common form of
love is sexual attraction and
passion. Passionate love is shown
in infatuation as well as romantic
love.

13. Archetypal lovers Romeo and Juliet
portrayed by Frank Dicksee. Peck
maintains that love is a
combination of the "concern for
the spiritual growth of another,"
and simple narcissism

14. Studies have shown that brain
scans of those infatuated by love
display a resemblance to those
with a mental illness. Love creates
activity in the same area of the
brain where hunger, thirst, and
drug cravings create activity. New
love, therefore, could possibly be
more physical than emotional.

15. Over time, this reaction to love
mellows, and different areas of the
brain are activated, primarily ones
involving long-term commitments.
Cultural views
Persian
Rumi, Hafez and Sa'di are icons of the
passion and love that the Persian
culture and language present. The
Persian word for love is eshgh, deriving
from the Arabic ishq.

16. In the Persian culture, everything is
encompassed by love and all is for love,
starting from loving friends and family,
husbands and wives, and eventually
reaching the divine love that is the
ultimate goal in life.
Chinese and other Sinic cultures "Ai," the
traditional Chinese character for love (愛)
consists of a heart (middle) inside of
"accept," "feel," or "perceive," which
shows a graceful emotion. It can also be
interpreted as a hand offering ones heart
to another hand

17. (e.g. wo ai ni 我愛你, or "I love you") The
Chinese are also more likely to say "I love
you" in English or other foreign languages
than they would in their mother
tongue.Japanese In Japanese Buddhism, ai
(愛) is passionate caring love, and a
fundamental desire. It can develop towards
either selfishness or selflessness and
enlightenment. Amae (甘え), a Japanese
word meaning "indulgent dependence," is
part of the child-rearing culture of Japan.

18. Agape (ἀγάπη agápē) means love
in modern-day Greek. The term
s'agapo means I love you in Greek.
The word agapo is the verb I love.
It generally refers to a "pure,"
ideal^ type of love, rather than the
physical attraction suggested by
eros

19. Philia (φιλία philía), a dispassionate
virtuous love, was a concept
developed by Aristotle. It includes
loyalty to friends, family, and
community, and requires virtue,
equality, and familiarity Storge (ςτοργή
storgē) is natural affection, like that
felt by parents for offspring.

20. Xenia (ξενία xenía), hospitality, was
an extremely important practice in
Ancient Greece. It was an almost
ritualized friendship formed
between a host and his guest, who
could previously have been
strangers.

21. Turkish (Shaman & Islamic In
Turkish, the word "love" comes up
with several meanings. A person
can love a god, a person, parents,
or family. Aşk is a feeling for to
love, or being "in love" (Aşık), as it
still is in Turkish today. The Turks
used this word just for their loves
in a romantic or sexual sense.

22. Influential Christian theologian C.S.
Lewis wrote a book called The Four
Loves. Benedict XVI wrote his first
encyclical on "God is love
Islam and Arab Ishq, or divine love,
is the emphasis of Sufism. Sufis believe
that love is a projection of the essence
of God to the universe. God desires to
recognize beauty, and as if one looks
at a mirror to see oneself, God "looks"
at itself within the dynamics of nature.

23. In Buddhism, Kāma Karuṇā and
Adveṣa and mettā are benevolent
love.
Hinduism
In Hinduism, kāma is
pleasurable, sexual
love, personified by the god
Kamadeva. For many Hindu
schools, it is the third end (artha)
in life.

24. Tell the special people in your life that
you appreciate them. Studies show
that appreciation of others and of
ourselves is strongly correlated with
health and wellness.
Tell those special people in your life
that you care about them. Everyone
likes to be liked.

25. Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,
Maryland, evaluated 19 people who
had been admitted to the hospital
while suffering chest pain or
symptoms related to heart failure after
experiencing some Although their
symptoms mimicked those of heart
attack patients, researchers found that
these “broken heart” patients had no
evidence of heart damage or
blockages to their arteries. emotional

26. The stress levels of those studied,
however, were much higher than
those who suffer an actual heart
attack, which researchers
concluded was the cause of their
heart-related symptoms. The good
news for “broken heart” patients is
that time really does mend a
broken he

27. Lisa Berman of the Harvard School of Public
Health Studies began looking at the social
factors that influence heart health in 1975. Her
findings have since been confirmed with
countless studies that show that hearts beat
stronger for people who:
are socially active
feel loved and supported
maintain close friendships
enjoy happy marriages
feel close to their parents
care for pets
draw strength and comfort from some form of
spirituality

28. It is impossible to exist without interacting
with other people and it’s the quality and
quantity of these interactions that play a
dominant role in our health. Based on a
landmark Pennsylvania study, co-author
Stewart Wolf, MD, suggests that emotional
health and a sense of community have a
greater impact on heart disease than
smoking and a diet high in saturated
(animal) fat combined.

29. . It takes energy to pursue and maintain
these special connections. There are
inevitable down days for all the up days
along the relationship’s path. Because they
provide the drive for growth–the tool that
allows us to know more about ourselves–
relationships are essential to our life. If
living life successfully involves constant
growth, then we need to put energy into
our relationships or we risk allowing them
to “die on the vine.”

30. Ultimately, a successful relationship
involves sharing emotions. How well
we manage the ups and downs of our
emotions and those of the relationship
dynamic is now understood to have
the greatest impact on our well-being
and, in particular, our heart health.

31. In our global society, the emotional
aspects of our relationships provide the
unique tools that allow us to adapt, learn,
and grow. One of these emotional
components comes from helping our loved
ones perceive stressful events from other
points of view. These efforts, which are
motivated by our wish to be helpful, may
be challenging but serve as a powerful tool
for personal growth.

32. •Write down a list of seven things that
your special someone loves.
Think about what they like to talk
about, what they think about, what
they spend their money on, and what
they spend their time doing.
If this doesn’t come easily ask–this
will show you care enough to find out.
Consider this a good exercise in
perception skills.