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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Love Types



Love styles are modus operandi of how people love, originally developed by John Lee (1973. 1988). He indentified six basic love styles - also known as "colours" of love-that people use in their interpersonal relationships:
  • Eros - a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
  • Ludus - a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
  • Storge - an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity (kindred to Philia)
  • Pragma - love that is driven by the head, not the heart; undemonstrative
  • Mania - obsessive love; experience great emotional highs and lows; very possessive and often jealous lovers
  • Agape - selfless altruistic love






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