Mash-Ups of Love

[kokopelle]

“There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

What is this love thing?  The dictionary.com definition of love has a few versions:
-a profoundly tender passionate affection for another person
-a sexual passion or desire
-a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection
 
Love seems to be either an affection, a desire, or an attachment.  What of this?  Why does Fitzgerald say we can never the same love twice?  I believe that how we love somebody is a mashed up combination of the kinds of love listed below.  Did I miss any?  I'd love to add to this list.

Kinds of Love

affectionate love
appreciative love
arranged love
awww love
bashful love
begrudging love
blind love
brotherly / sisterly love
child's love
companionate love
conditional love
consummate love
desperate love
emotional love
emphatic love
empty love
erotic love
exotic love
fatuous love
friendship love
gift love
god love
immortal love
infatuative love
intellectual love
liking love
longstanding love
lusty love
manic love
maternal love
mental love
nature love
need love
nurturing love
obsessive love
parental love
perfect love
physical love
platonic love
playful love
possessional love
practical love
pragmatic love
puppy love
pure love
rebound love
respectful love
romantic love
same sex love
self-love
selfish love
sexual love
shallow love
silent love
knowing love
soulmate love
spiritual love
tender love
tough love
toxic love
tribal love
true love
unattainable love
unconditional love
unrequited love

Comments

[oceans_voice]

I think there is only one love and everything else is various shades of passion or lust or anger. How can there be toxic love? that seems like an oxymoron. How can love be toxic? That goes against everything that love is supposed to be. I think these are words that we may use to describe love but are they really love? How can love be selfish? Shallow? Possessive? Obsessive? These words do not describe love.

I recently discovered an online copy of the very first dictionary created by Noah Webster that went to print in 1828. Here is its address http://webstersdictionary1828.com/ type in Love and see what pops up. Its interesting.

[kokopelle]

This is a mixed list... I suppose it illustrates how love is experienced, shared, or given. These are human states that do not match the most perfect realization of love. This webpage speaks more about the toxic love angle: http://www.solotopia.com/toxic-love/ .