Discover all the different types of love in the world, from ancient Greek terms for love to modern types of love.

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A Comprehensive List of All Other Types of Love
There are probably as many types of love in the world as there are types of people in the world. Here is a list of other types of love and what they mean.

Tough Love: This is a love that is strict and all about holding you accountable and responsible.
Unrequited Love: This type of love is a lack of love from one partner. In other words, unrequited love is when someone loves someone else but the other person does not love them back. As Krizzia Paolyn, poetically put it unrequited love is “a love that is impossible because the person you love doesn’t love you back the same way.”
Obsessive Love: This is a dangerous kind of love, one that can often lead to possessiveness and even physical harm. To obsessive lovers, love is mania. This kind of love is always refereed to as “mania” love.
Forbidden Love: These are the star crossed lovers, the Romeo’s and the Juliette’s of the world. This love is almost always tragic, or it carries with it deep familial or cultural consequences. This love is strong, however, for those who choose to continue loving those whom they are forbidden to love, are clearly deeply connected and enamoured with their partner.
One-Sided Love: This is different than unrequited love. When you are in a one-sided partnership, you have both entered into a relationship, but one party puts in more effort than the other, and the other party seems to take advantage of that.
Constructive Love: This kind of love grow you. It is the kind of love you have with your best friend, or a partner that consistently wants you to expand as a human being. This love calls you out on your shit, but they do not judge you — they help you to become the best version of yourself.
Enabling Love: This is the kind of love that turns a blind eye to the things their partner needs to work on. Often, family members or partners of those with addictions will start off with this love, until the situation requires more of them. Think about a mother giving her son money knowing that he will most likely spend it on harmful habits. Or your father saying “Whatever makes you happy” even though he knows that you are doing something wrong.
Competitive Love: This usually exists between two highly motivated people, and can show up in two different ways. In a negative light, two people cannot be happy for one another’s accomplishments — they are always in competition with each other. In a positive light, both people are competitive, but they support each other and push each other to succeed — they are motivated to be the best for each other .
Resentful Love: This is the kind of love that usually exists in a relationship where one person has given up a dream or a career for another. Over time, they resent their partner for allowing them to make them their whole world, and feel like they do not have much to live for outside of their relationship.
Everlasting Love: This is the kind of love that lasts no matter what. Distance and time can come between these two people, but when they see each other, the feelings flood back. They are always connected, even when they are not.
Artistic Love: This is a muse relationship. This love exists between an artist and the person who inspires them deeply. This love is often tumultuous because there is so much passion there, and it can often be one sided or short-lived when the artists feels like they have found a new muse in another human being.
Distant Love: This is the kind of love that exists from a distance. When you love someone, but you never act on it. You don’t even truly know that much about them — you just feel deeply for them, and would rather nurture that from a distance than ruin the fantasy of who they are.
Explorative Love: This is the kind of love that fills your bones when you touch down in a new city, or country, and you feel an overwhelmingly strong sense of home. You may not have been born in this place, but you are immediately sure that you belong there.
Momentary Love: This is the kind of love that swells within you in the middle of moments; the kind of love that occurs when you are sitting with a friend and everything goes quiet. You look at them and your cells burst with happiness and gratitude for them. You feel lucky that they are in your life.
Switch Love: This kind of love is like a light-switch. One moment, you are completely enamoured with someone. However, once they do something to hurt you, or they say something or act in a way that turns you off, suddenly, all feeling is lost for them. You are almost repulsed by them, and cannot continue the relationship.
Curious Love: This kind of love is never strong at first. There is a gentle curiosity that bubbles within you. You do not love this person, but you know you could grow to love them. You know that they would treat you well.