There are four types of love…

Madam – Four types of love.

Not everybody will think there are so many types of love. After some research, I came upon the following four types of love:

STORGE – EMPATHY BOND

Storge is liking someone through the fondness of familiarity, family members or people who relate in familiar ways that have otherwise found themselves bonded by chance. An example is the natural love and affection of a parent for their child. It is described as the most natural, emotive, and widely diffused of loves.

PHILIA – FRIEND BOND

Philia is the love between friends as close as siblings in strength and duration. The friendship is the strong bond existing between people who share common values, interests or activities. Friendship differentiates from other loves. Friendship – least biological, organic, instinctive, gregarious and necessary…the least natural of loves.

EROS – EROTIC BOND

Eros is the sense of “being in love” or “loving” someone, as opposed to raw sexuality. Eros in all its splendour… may urge to evil as well as good.

AGAPE – UNCONDITIONAL ‘GOD’ LOVE

Agape or charity love is the love that serves regardless of changing circumstances. It is a specifically Christian virtue. The natural loves are not self-sufficient – to the love of God, who is full of charitable love, to prevent ‘demonic’ self-aggrandisement.

What kind of love do you bond with?

Marina Smal-Minnaar