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Is Love Addictive? Many Say Yes, and It's Changing Our Idea of Romance

3 points| herbertl | 2 days ago |nytimes.com

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nephihaha|2 days ago

Depends how you define love. Even the romantic kind comes in several varieties. The solid two way bond of affection is less common than Hollywood tells us.

apothegm|2 days ago

I agree with most of what you said except that most of what Hollywood depicts aren’t solid two-way bonds of affection. Instead it deploys a lot of shorthands (lust as a stand-in for love) and toxic relationship patterns.

onecommentman|2 days ago

Agápē, érōs, philía, philautía, storgē, xenía…