where did the term come from? which culture first documents the idea of love between in a relationship? why did it start?
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with adam and eve ,god creating us.
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I don't think it's what two people do - computers versus, say, crocheting potholders or whatever - that has an impact on a relationship as much as their common philosophy does.  If you both share a common view of the world, of morality, of what you believe, there's a chance that it can develop into love. \n\nAnd you can love someone for years without telling them.  It happens all the time.......
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Like and Love is very different, here's the quick definition from the good old dictionary:\n\nLike is something to feel about,\n\nwhile,\n\nLove is to experience deep affection or intense desire for another.
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There is no specific word for the feeling of love.  If the feelings are acted upon, then it is called adultery.
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having lived through the free love decade of the '60s, i found that after the thrill of "free love", no commitments, different partners wears off and as people got older, they actually started to look for more traditional relationships. there's more sense of security in a traditional relationship.
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there is a difference betewen passion, committment and intimacy.  Try reading about Steiberg's triangular theory of love.  I know it may seem like psychobable, but it does a really good job of explaining the different types of romantic relationships that we can enter into.  In short, many people can have intimacy(support, feelings of closeness) and committment, and be very happy with that.\n\nThe key is just to make sure it is ok with both people.
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Lovehas several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure ("I loved that meal") to something for which one would die for (patriotism, pair-bonding). It can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love. As an experience usually felt by a person for another person, it is commonly considered impossible to describe. Dictionaries tend to define love as deep affection or fondness. In colloquial use, according to polled opinion, the most favoured definitions of love include the words:\n\nlife - someone or something for which you would give your life. \ncare - someone or something about which you care more than yourself. \nfriendship - favoured interpersonal associations or relationships. \nunion - a synergistic connection, as in the perfect union of two souls. \nfamily - people related via common ancestry, religion, or race, etc. \nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love. Others maintain that love exists but is undefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature, etc. Perhaps due to its emotional primacy, love is one of the most common themes in art.\n\nLove might best be defined as acting intentionally, in sympathetic response to others to promote overall well-being. Or to put it simply, "love responds intentionally to promote well-being" (Thomas Jay Oord). Love promotes overall flourishing, but often focuses on those close at hand.\n\nCultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. See the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, et cetera. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Many believe, as stated originally by Virgil, that "Love conquers all". However, love may be confused with lust.\n\n\nTypes\nCourtly love – a late medieval conventionalized code prescribing certain conduct and emotions for ladies and their lovers. \nErotic love – an aesthetic focused on sexual desire. \nFamilial love – affection brokered through kinship connections, intertwined with concepts of attachment and bonding. \nFree love – sexual relations according to choice and unrestricted by marriage. \nPlatonic love – a close relationship in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated. \nPuppy love – romantic affection felt between or as though between adolescents. \nReligious love – devotion to one’s deity or theology. \nRomantic love – affection characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire. \nUnrequited love – affection and desire not reciprocated or returned.
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Throughout history, predominantly, philosophy and religion have speculated the most into the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. Recently, however, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have begun to take centre stage in discussion as to the nature and function of love.\n\nBiological models of sex tend to see it as a mammalian drive, just like hunger or thirst. Psychology sees love as more of a social and cultural phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg explains that love has three different components. Intimacy is a form where two people can share secrets and various details of their personal life. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment on the other hand is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever. This factor of love is shown in empty love (ex. when two people stay together for the sake of their children). The last and most common form of love is simply sex, or passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation love, as well as romantic love. There are probably elements of truth in both views — certainly love is influenced by hormones (such as oxytocin) and pheromones, and how people think and behave in love is influenced by one’s conceptions of love. Hence, from time immemorial, science, from naturalistic poetry to MRI neurochemistry, has debated the nature of love.
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Love is merely a higher level of familiarity.  It is the acknowledgement of affection.  It is vulnerability.  It is an advent of human society.
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There are different kinds of love.\nLove for your family is unconditional.\n\nBut romantic love is when you can just be with that person and not have a constant need for sex because you're that comfortable with them and are that connected...but you do have sex. Love can be little things too...like when you go to the store to buy something and pick up a little something extra for your significant other just to do it.
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I like number 2.  It is so true.  When you are younger, you throw the word "love" around just to make boys/girls feel comfort so you can have sex with them. It doesn't mean anything at the time. I guess telling someone you love them when you are younger justifies the sex. \nWhen you are middle-aged, and know what love is, is it said for complacency.  You know you love each other, but your life together doesn't necessarily depend on those words.  You are content with the one you love.\nWhen you are old, you need to depend on love.  Love from your family is number one because you never know when you are going to pass away.  \nThat's all I have.
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Lust is what happens before love. Its the chemistry and the connection between two people. It's the raw passion, the sheer desire to be near each other, to kiss, to have sex, to touch each other.\nLust is powerful and physical... it can eventually develop into love, but lust comes first.
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Based on what I think love is ... I think it's a connection between both.\n\nTrue Love ....\n\nIt's as mysterious as the stars it was written on, as elusive. It is everything it's hyped about to be. It's worth taking every risk, it's worth fighting for, and the problem is if you don't risk all then you risk even more. Love is kind of an elixir that lures us out of reality and into the realm of fantasy. It's like a drug creating an altered state of consciousness.\n\nLove is the moment when an unfavorable act becomes favorable, when you make excuses for some one else's mistakes, when you learn to tolerate, when you learn acceptance, when sacrificing becomes the beauty of life. \n\nIt's the courage to tell the truth especially when you believe its unspeakable.\n\nIt's the time when seeing some one, being seen by some one and thinking about some one feels good, when you learn to find happiness in the smallest of moments.\n\nThat's love--when you learn to put down your ego and love some one more than that.\n\nLove is forgetting your self and remembering some one else. \n\nLove is choosing your partner exactly as he is, and supporting him in his choices. It's honoring your partner's truth and wanting best for him.\n\nIt's not controlling or possessing but rather respecting and trusting.\n\nIt does not mean owning some one, getting some one, rather it means being happy in your loved one's happiness.\n\nLove means living without judgments. It means treasuring your beloved and never taking him for granted. \n\nLove means being able to forgive and learning to give more then you get. It means reaching out when you don't want to, communicating rather than assuming and asking questions rather than jumping to conclusions.\n\nIt means working things out rather than fighting, fighting rather than leaving, and staying through the hurts and disappointments, knowing that through commitment all can be healed. \n\nFalling in love is like being enveloped in a magical cloud. The air feels fresher, the flowers smell sweeter, food tastes more delectable, and the stars shine more brightly at night. You feel light and lofty as though you are floating through life, and your problems and challenges suddenly seem insignificant and easily surmountable. Your body feels alive, your skin tingles and you awaken in the morning with a smile on your face. You are suspended in a state of supreme delight.\n\nLove is a feeling and an action that arises from the most primal place within us. Making a relationship however, is a process that is learned. A relationship is the vessel that carries the precious cargo of love through time.\n\nRelationships are like a precious antique lamp; it takes a little polish and some effort to restore it to its valuable condition. A relationships love and luster will only improve with age if you continually give it the care that keeps it beautiful. But once you uncover its essential beauty it will bring you joy for years to come.\n\nAfter having said all this I want to say that you have to make the decision on your own, on one hand love is magic, on the other it's time tested relationship worked hard and furiously at.
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Love means different things to different people. I believe the term is tossed around in too many ways, to the point where it almost has no meaning anymore. I prefer to use "intimacy" or "attachment."\n\nThere are biological aspects of attraction and passion that are an important part of intimacy. These form very potent sources of fuel for a relationship, and I think they can be very important if they also include a certain amount of consistent communication and emotional process. Other important ingredients include mutuality in the relationship, respect for the person, and empathy for whom they are and what their needs are.\n\nSimpler signs are merely that this is somebody with whom you feel comfortable and enjoy spending time. This should be somebody you look forward to sharing an important experience with, and without that person, that experience would not be as special. Finally, you should feel that your life is fundamentally enhanced by having this person with you and when this person is not with you, you lose something meaningful.
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Actually, the "Free Love" movement goes back to 19th century, and started as a civil libertarian movement trying to get the government and Church to not interfere with peoples private lives.  The open sexuality of the 1960s, not to mention the promiscuity, obscured the origin and goals.  As someone who grew up in the 60s I honestly don't think we were wilder than kids today, we were just getting all the media coverage because of the anti-war protests.
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Its not the body, but the mind that processed love. The body is simply the mechanism that is used to deliver and accept that process.\n\nThe mind has developed these common instincts from human1 to todays modern humans. This process, although, quite old within us is one that we still do not understand completely. Simply, we love by instinct, we love from our heart by experience, and we love ourselves from learning. The body is simply a part of the action and not required for any of the above.
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I am a Czech so I can translate this for you easily.\n\nIt means: "First love studying, then study love."