"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love Compassion Longing Adoration Desire Lust Affection Enchantment Passion Arousal Fondness Sentimentality Attraction Infatuation Sympathy Caring Kindness Tenderness Charmed Liking Warm
Prompting Events for Feeling Love
- A person offers or gives you something you want, need or desire
- A person does things you want or need the person to do
- A person does things you particularly value or admire
- Feeling physically attracted to someone
- You spend alot of time with a person
- You share a special experience together with a person
- You have exceptionally good communication with a person
- Being with someone you have fun with
Interpretations of Events That Prompt Feelings of Love
- Believing that a person loves, needs or appreciates you.
- Thinking a person is physically attractive
- Judging a person's personality as wonderful, pleasing or attractive
- Believing that person can be counted on, or will always be there for you
Biological Changes and Experiences of Love
When you are with or thinking about someone:
- Feeling excited and full of energy
- Fast heartbeat
- Feeling self-confident
- Feeling invulnerable
- Feeling happy, joyful or exuberant
- Feeling warm, trusting and secure
- Feeling relaxed and calm
- Wanting the best for a person
- Wanting to give things to a person
- Wanting to see and spend time with a person
- Wanting to spend your life with a person
- Wanting physical closeness or sex
- Wanting emotional closeness
Expressions and Actions of Love
- Saying "I love you."
- Expressing positive feelings to a person
- Eye contact, mutual gaze
- Touching, petting, hugging, holding, cuddling
- Sexual activity
- Smiling
- Sharing time and experiences with someone
- Doing things that the other person wants or needs
Aftereffects of Love
- Only being able to see a person's positive side
- Feeling forgetful or distracted; daydreaming
- Feeling openness and trust
- Feeling "alive", capable
- Remembering other times and people you have loved
- Remembering other people who have loved you
- Remembering and imagining other positive events
- Believing in yourself, believing you are wonderful, capable, competent
Typical Secondary Emotions of Love
- Exhilarating feeling of joy
- Ecstasy
- Contentment
- When the loved one is not available or doesn't respond, feelings of sadness, grief, anger, hatred or shame
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