Love, Decoded

This was in psychology today.
Sternberg also describes several other combinations:

Romantic Love involves intimacy and passion without commitment and is more common in the teenage and young adult years.
Compassionate Love involves intimacy and commitment without passion and is typical of close friends, and sometimes long-term marriages.
Infatuated Love involves passion only and often occurs at the very beginning of a relationship.
Empty Love involves commitment with no intimacy or passion, as in an arranged marriage—but it may grow into other forms of love over time.
Fatuous Love is like getting engaged after dating for three weeks—it involves passion and commitment, but no deeper intimacy.

I thought the test, was interesting, though, depending on the relationship status, it can be difficult to base the answers to a specific situation. Consistency...
Test

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Eros stands for passionate love. In researching this test, the authors found that people who reported that they are currently in love were particularly likely to be identified with Eros. Eros involves strong physical preferences and responses to a lover, and a lot of commitment is involved. Eros was the most common feeling among respondents in recent research on Love Attitudes.
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Ludus stands for game-playing love. People who score high in this category approach love as an interactional game - even if it sometimes involves deception. Ludus types may even be wary of closeness. Men were more likely to approach love as a game, although men and women were pretty similar in this regard. People who have never been in love and those who have been in love again, and again, and again tended to fit well into this category, while people who have been in love only once or twice were not as likely to belong in this category. Ludus was the least common feeling among respondents in recent research.
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If you scored high on Storge, you have an inclination to link love and friendship. It is an enduring kind of love, but it is not a particularly passionate kind of love. Storge was less common than Eros, but much more common than Ludus in recent research.
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The next three types are subtypes that reflect how you behave regarding your feelings.

If you scored high on Pragma, you are a rational thinker. You focus on finding a lover who has the kind of qualities that you prefer; you may even have a plan about the ideal relationship before you find the lover of your dreams. Among the second set of love attitudes, Pragma was the least common.
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Mania may be what is sometimes called puppy love - since it is particularly common among adolescents (although plenty of older lovers can be manic). There is a high degree of uncertainty about the lover and a lot of activity around seeking to fix that uncertainty.
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Agapeis rare in its purest form, although it received the highest score among the second three Love Attitudes. agape is selfless love, the kind that involves giving without taking, and may only appear in its true form in parents of small children - and then perhaps only on occasion.
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The range for each subscore is from 0 through 28.

interesting test

Eros:25

Ludus:20

Storage:13

Pragma:12

Mania:13

Agape:13

I love these tests!

Eros: 24
Ludus: 9
Storge: 14
Pragma: 19
Mania: 24
Agape: 26

very interesting read but I'm too tired to play... and I have a headache

*cough*..anger management.
(..Lab rat-alike behavioral studies are not equivalent for humans.)

Looove and merry Xmas to all!

passionate: 18

playful: 14

friendship: 16

practical: 11

intense: 21

selfless: 18

I love you Wendy,

But my is the storge(friendship/compassion)

I ll take the test later.

In pop culture I think love is Eros, and erotic.

creative_nothing wrote:I love you Wendy,

But my is the storge(friendship/compassion)

Asexual?
<3 Creative


Point being, people are different..also with love.

WendyTorrance wrote:

creative_nothing wrote:I love you Wendy,

But my is the storge(friendship/compassion)

Asexual?
<3 Creative


Point being, people are different..also with love.

Havent you heard about colorful friendships?

Dont know psych says, that I need to develop some intimacy first.

Makes sense, our society is over sexualized, and I very rarely devop interest at unfamiliar girls, no matter how hot people tell me they are.

Add to this equation the typical schizoid apathy,(towards almost everything) and my sex drive is low. I think schizoids are just like pandas(very slow, at least I am)

Point is I am aware of assexuality before I am aware of many things.

Some question becomes too abstract when you are single.

I am no borderline but here it goes

Scoring & Evaluation

For each of the subsections, your score appears below. These subsection scores are associated with three main love styles that are related to how you feel.

Eros
(passionate)
15

Ludus
(playful)
10

Storge
(friendship)
22

The three subsection scores below are secondary styles that are related to how you act.
Pragma
(practical)
20

Mania
(intense)
17

Agape
(selfless).
15