Define love & the difference between platonic, romantic, & love for family?

[xutumx]

This is mainly for the *GUYS* but girls feel free to answer too, In as much detail as possible define love, what makes you feel in love, the difference between unconditional love & conditional love, how you feel when your in love or have love for someone. This can be for platonic, romantic, family, any type of love & if possible explain the difference between platonic, romantic, & family love.
Thank you:)
I’m doing this for a study trying to observe the different answers from men & women but also trying to see the differences & similarities to both men & women but also in the gender itself

[MementoMori777]

Just filling your head with knowledge I see, I respect it but there's many things that play a part to create an attachment of any kind, love is an emotional attachment and romantic and platonic have their differences and the main difference if not the only difference would be sexual attraction, they are both still a form of love but a romantic love has a sexual attraction included when platonic love and relationships don't, love for family and a love for a friend are platonic, the other difference is probably how strong the love is, I do believe some might be stronger than others and that all depends on the individuals is what I think.

[xutumx]

Don’t take offense this is merely what I have observed from many men I’ve asked but I asked a lot of guys what they love about their mom & I got a lot of acts of service answers like “She always takes care of me” “she made sure I always had x, y, z” & I would ask about why they love their dads & usually I notice they described personality “he’s a hard worker” “he’s a strong man”… I’ve also asked women the same thing & while some women did describe acts of service too a lot described personality so I’m trying to see what’s the about & also trying to observe the different levels of respect for romantic, platonic, & family bonds…. I feel like love means a different thing to each gender when being described that’s just my take on it, I could be wrong there’s no actual science proof or anything

[MementoMori777]

You are making your own observations, yea I feel you, but both of my parents are hard workers, they both have raised me and made me who I am, the good part of me came from them and although the world partly corrupted me I can always say that my kindness, respect, manners, beliefs, loyalty and morals in general have came from them, their way of raising me and their sacrifice is where my love for them comes from, personally I don't have love for my friends, the only friend I cared for is gone, the rest I can say are just in my life cause they are acceptable people and I'd only take a bullet for them cause they have my loyalty and I grew up with them but they never really showed loyalty back to me so I can say I have no love for them, seems like loyalty might be what makes the love for friends, I see why you are interested by this, it's quite a topic 🤔

[Grovermint]

Platonic and familial love are rather similar to me, enough where I treat them the same. Besides my father, my family isn't that close to me, both relationship and distance wise. Some of my friends I consider more or less family over my own flesh and blood.

Sure, familial love is more like an obligation, especially when parents are involved, but, ultimately it's my choice whether I care a damn about them.

Romantic love involves a mix of passion, sexual attraction, attachment, and commitment. Id consider it the most important one of the three, if we were married. If I had to choose between something my dad needed and a woman whom we both declared being boyfriend and girlfriend, I'd choose him.

Platonic and familial love takes the sex and romance out of the equation, while still involving similar levels of closeness, commitment, and care.

[Wonderingguyy]

Platonic love is a non sexual and non romantic kind of love, but is still deeper than the average friendship. The two people would have a deep, meaningful connection.


Romantic love is the mix between sexual attraction and strong emotional connection between people, that makes you want to be strongly bonded to each other.


Family love I guess is deep caring for the people that raised you and you grew up around, and is often strong because of shared experiences and DNA.

[Billlewis]

Platonic love is when you love her and you want to have sex with her, but she won't let you.

Romantic love is when you're doing all the things that are associated with a relationship.

Family love is pretty much self explanatory.

[Anonymous]

To me there is really only familial love. I think all other love is nonsense. No one else really loves anyone. They're either out to get something or they're just obsessed/hormone fueled.