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In combination, love is an activity, not simply a feeling. Psychologist Erich Fromm maintained in his book The Art of Loving that love is not merely a feeling but is also actions, and that in fact the "feeling" of love is superficial in comparison to one's commitment to love via a series of loving actions over time. [3]
Attraction (also called romantic love or passionate love) is associated with feelings of exhilaration, intrusive thinking and the craving for emotional union. Attachment (also called companionate love) is associated with feelings of calm, security and comfort, but separation anxiety when apart.
In the Thomsonian model, love is a mixture of multiple feeling that, when brought together, produce the feeling. The Thurstonian model is the closest to the triangular theory of love, and posits that love is made up of a set of feelings of approximately equal importance that are best understood on their own rather than as an integrated whole.
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, [1] and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.
The feelings love brings: happiness, empathy, mutual respect, a sense of purpose, can lead to stronger motivation, less stress, a positive outlook on life, and hope. [19]: xi Love allows humans to communicate through their emotions.
Brotherly love, for Fromm, is not love between siblings but rather the love one feels for their fellow man, originating in their common experiences of humanity. This is a love between equals, though "even as equals we are not always 'equal'; inasmuch as we are human, we are all in need of help.
“Love Is Blind” Season 7 star Ashley Adionser announced that she and husband Tyler Francis have broken up. The Netflix reality stars met and got engaged during Season 7 of the popular reality ...
Love regulation is "the use of behavioral or cognitive strategies to change the intensity of current feelings of romantic love." [46] In some cases, love feelings may be stronger than desired such as after a breakup, or love feelings may be weaker than desired such as when they decline throughout a long-term relationship. [10]