Chapter 4: Love

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People often get confused about love. Love is eternal. Love is true. Love just is. Love does not choose. Love knows and shows no limits. Love has no expectations. Love embraces. And when you really love someone, truly to the core, you stop picturing everything in black and white, right side and left side, or you and me. In love, you and me become this One Unit called We.

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive and , from the most sublime or good habit, the deepest , to the simplest . An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional .[]

Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its representing human , , and , as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its representing human , akin to , , , and , as potentially leading people into a type of , or . It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self, or animals. In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the . Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to .

Ancient Greek philosophers identified : essentially, (in , ), or (), (), (), (), and (). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: 

 and . Numerous cultures have also distinguished 

 (and other ), as culturally unique words, definitions, or expressions of love in regards to a specified "moments" currently lacking in the English language.

Scientific research on emotion has increased significantly over the past two decades. The defines three primary, three secondary and nine tertiary love styles, describing them in terms of the traditional . The suggests "intimacy, passion and commitment" are core components of love. Love has additional or meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

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