What are the different classifications of love?
Agape: this goes beyond just your feelings for a person and is thought of more as "Godly love", unconditional, and unchanging.
Eros: Romantic love, involving passion, emotion and sex.
Storge: The love between a parent and a child, free and unconditional
Philia: friendship/ brotherly love.
Obviously, each of these types of love are very good and desirable, but which type of love do you want in your future spouse? Answer: ALL OF THEM! Having all types of love within your marriage provides you with a fuller, more complete love, encompassing a wider spectrum of care and support than just one or two types of love could supply. Also, being able to have multiple types of love for a person makes it easier to stay with them. Having only one of these types of love makes falling out of love so much easier because they don’t have a significant amount of love bonding them together. Perhaps this is a reason we are seeing people getting more divorces these days, because they marry on the basis of an Eros love which, while it is very important to have in your marriage, if it is based solely on that then when Eros loves begins to die out you will have nothing left to keep the two of you together.
In order to form all these types of love with your spouse or future spouse you must understand that it doesn’t come naturally. Love is an active process, one which you need to constantly be working on and nurturing. When you cease to work towards/ for love you cease to have it.
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