What is Your Favorite Type of Love?

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By those definitions:

1. Mutual
2. Sexual
3. Platonic
4. Predatory
5. Romantic

 

My rank would have to be:
1) Mutual
For me, there is nothing more satisfying than having someone love and accept you for who you are and having a strong emotional bond. This beats everything else by far in my opinion. To love and to be loved is beautiful, whether it's a platonic or romantic relationship. I love that kind of bond with people..
2)Romantic and platonic
I'm a hopeless romantic. As a child, I always dreamed of having some prince rescue me...(or princess) I'm a real dreamer sometimes.
For me, I have rather blurred lines between them. I'm bound to fall in love with someone who I have an innocent emotional attraction to, unless I'm in a relationship. I can never love two people at once. I put it into the same category, because for me, the difference between the two doesn't really exist from me. I like the innocent, sweet love.
3)Sexual
They personally all interconnect for me. I'd love to have a sexual love towards the person I felt romantic, platonic and mutual love for. With random people, no.
4) Predatory
The way I interpreted how you described it, I'd hate a predatory love. A stable, strong, equal type of love is what I like. Sexual, Platonic, Romantic and Mutual love can offer that, so I Like the idea of that. Less sexual though.

 

My first relationship was more along the lines of John Lee's "love style" called "storge," and my second relationship was more along the lines of "agape."

Storge: my ex always has been more like family than a lover. I am still friends with my ex, and he remains meaningful to me, regardless of the pretenses of our relationship. I am not even fully certain we were ever truly lovers. That was just an excuse for us to be together and to share our time together. It was more, in the end, a "bromance" with a little sex, here and there. There was never any place, in our relationship, for distrust or jealousy. Those emotions are completely alien to storge. Even if one of us did something to hurt the other, so does your family. They're still family. You just don't always get along with your family, and sometimes you may feel hate toward them. Even when you do hate them, though, they are more meaningful to you than someone you may like better, at the time, who is not family to you. That's what "storge" is like, as a love style, in my experience.

Agape: this is a real thing, and I have had this kind of relationship. I am not going to tell you that it's necessarily better, as a relationship, than the former. It's more gripping, and it's more emotionally tumultuous. Being with your partner is almost like a religious experience, and it can last for a long time. In this kind of love, you and your partner may be pressed tightly up against each other throughout the night. Agapic love is more of a sort of ongoing meditation, and it has such an impact on you that you can ignore physical discomfort or even chronic loss of sleep.

However, because the agapic style of love is so intense and deep, it will never feel as relaxed or as comfortable as the more companionable "storge," and I'm really glad that I have had experience with both. Truth be told, I really prefer the calmer and more relaxed "storge," even though I am dearly gratified that I had a chance to experience something as magical as "agape" love. For all that "agape" love is an experience I'm glad that I had, it will always be an experience I'm glad that I had rather than a way that I would want to live permanently, and I would have hoped that my relationship with my late partner would have developed, in time, into a more "storgic" type of love if he had lived longer.

Kinds of love that I cannot do, under any circumstances, are "ludus," "mania," and "pragma." I have mixed-feelings about "eros," and although men who can do "eros" well can be very charming and absolute gentlemen, men who get like this too quickly can be kind of creepy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_styles

---------- Post added 20th Jun 2015 at 10:43 AM ----------

Oh, and to rank yours:

1) Platonic (storge?)

2) Mutual (agape?)

3) Romantic (eros?)

4) Sexual (ludus?)

5) Predatory (mania?)

---------- Post added 20th Jun 2015 at 10:47 AM ----------

No, your platonic love seems more like the agape form, I think, based on your description.

 

They all sound so nice... I want all of them. Except the predatory type, I guess. It sounds a bit off-putting to me.

1) Mutual. My greatest friendships have been this, and... yeah. I couldn't live without my friends, so this comes first.
2) Sexual. It's just so intense.
3) Platonic. Again, I'm like this with some friends, and it's such a sweet, pleasant feeling.
4) Romantic. I can live without infatuation, though it's pleasant.
5) Predatory. It sounds unequal.

 

mutual is a must for me they have to feel the same
platonic that is nice feeling some close to you
romantic I like to be made a fuss off sometimes

 

The kind in which they love you back. Lol #foreveralone.

But seriously, if I had to pick which I preferred my list would be:

1) Sexual - I am a very sexual person. Ha.

2) Mutual - To be honest, this is pretty staple for me as a person I don't place much value in it. It's just who I am naturally and I expect my significant other to be that way too.

3) Romantic - It's good to know you're still appreciated. I think certain types of romanticism help convey that.

4) Platonic - I also love to just be 'cute' and just "snuggle the day away". As Lyana said, I too am like this with most of my friends. It makes you feel appreciated, I think.

To be honest they all kind of tie in together for me. I want all 4 of these together, so I cannot truly rank anything above all else. But I guess if I was looking for a relationship which had all 4, these would be the order.

5) Predatory - I don't even like the word when relating it to love. It just sounds..weird.

 

Each relationship I had contained all the mentioned 'types'. Some had more 'sexual' stuff, others were romantic... You get the idea.

Let's call my fav 'kind' predatory/symbiotic if you don't mind. 'Mutual' is not precise enough.

 

This sounds amazing! I mean, err... whatever...

This sounds nice, but it'd be even nicer if there was a foundation of the previous type of love.

I mean... what's with this weak shit? P'fft!

Weaklings!



I want this.

This one would ideally run alongside Platonic, I'd hope.

The fuck? LOL!

Why did my mind jump to somebody snarling from behind shivering bushes?

This one sounds like a Lifetime Channel movie. I can already imagine the tagline:

Left for dead, she defied the odds and survived. Now her heart burns with...

PREDATORY PASSION.​

Outside of a joking context, I don't know if I could get down with this one. I like having equal say and power with somebody, though I'll tolerate give and take.

To rank them from favorite to least:

- Platonic
- Mutual
- Romantic
- Sexual
- Predatory

 

Platonic, Romantic and Sexual.

 

1. Sexual
2. Romantic
3. Mutual
4. Platonic
5. Predatory

that's my list from the most favorite to the least one
arfff

 

Probably romantic and platonic.

 

Based on those descriptions, platonic is the one for me!

That is so the kind of thing I like (*hug*)

 

All of them sound like winners except for predatory.

 

1.platonic
Those are people you usually can rely on your whole life.The most important relationships of all if you ask me

2.Mutual
How i understand love.

3.Romantic
Can be very motivating and can either lead to something or leave a bitter sweet feeling.

4.Sexual
I could live with a partner without ever having sex if the chemistry is right.
I do feel sexual attraction though

5.predatory
.....sounds like some creepy stalker thing...

 

I don't like predatory at all.

Mutual love is best.

 

1- Platonic
2- Sexual
3- Mutual
4- Romantic
5- Predatory

Where my cookies at?