Love...

True Parental Love – is that love a parent has for a child that is truly unconditional. There is no power in existence that can destroy this love – not disappointment, time, neglect or even death. There are no boundaries to this love, this parent will walk through hell and back for you. Even if they do not agree with your choices this parent will support you choices non-the less.

Partial Parental Love – this is sadly the love of many parent to there child. This love isn’t unconditional, this love will stay with you only as long as you conform to their ideas, go with the flow and can become resentful and down right hateful when you don’t behave as the believe you should.

Innocent Love – this love is mostly only ever felt by children and the truly naive. It’s when you look at someone and can truly see no faults in him or her.

Selfless Love- is just that, it’s about wanting only the best for another, asking for nothing in return for your love.

Forever Love – is the love where someone can stand back and look towards the future and still see the other person, lasting through pain loss and hundreds of other pitfalls. It’s where you could live without that person but it’d be like someone had cut off a body part – you’d never be the same and you would mourn the loss till your death. This love can be felt by lovers, family and dearest of friends.

Companion Love – this love is where two people can simply be. Where words aren’t needed, when you can sit in each others company and have feel as if you need never speak, as if this the person you are sharing the silence with knows you and you them so well that words are pointless.

Confidential Love – is the love you feel when you know without a doubt that you can trust the other person never to tell your secrets. You can tell this person anything and never fear that they will judge you. They will support you trough even the hardest of times.

Mentor Love – is based on learning something from another, it can be anything from math to meditation to sex. It’s trusting in your teacher completely, knowing they won’t lead you wrong and they will teach you what you need to know, that they will always be honest about the dangers of what your learning and makes sure you understand those dangers. From telling you that you may fall off the bike and scrape your knee to if you don’t open you parachute in time you may just die when you hit the ground. This long can be one of the strongest, for once you learn something you never truly forget the person who taught you.

Pupil Love – is based on teaching another something. It’s accepting that you hold and cherish the trust your given by your student. It’s the worry that they may get hurt, but knowing that you have to stand back and let them get hurt sometimes. Like when you have to let go of the bicycle and let the child ride it on there own, knowing that they may crash and that you will be there to help them get up and encourage them to try again. Again like with mentor love this is a strong love indeed, to know you hold another’s hope and trust.

Lustful Love – is the love that makes your heart pound as if you’ve run 100 miles. It’s the love that can make it so you can barely see strait. In it’s simplest terms it’s fleeting - it fades. It’s only for the moment may the moments be short or long – it may last one night or a weekend or even a week. Once it’s faded you either feel nothing for the other person or you feel another type of love like Passionate Love, Romantic Love or one of the other thousand types of love.

Possessive love – Is not wanting to share the other person, wanting them to be yours alone, it can be jealousy and it can be dark, but it can be romantic and light. It’s simply about how you allow the love to form, please don’t mistake this love for something completely bad for even with committed couples that play among others there is a tad bit of possessive love. Possessive love is not bad simply not well understood.

Passionate Love – this is the love that I believe comes after Lustful Love most often when it doesn’t disappear. It’s when you come to care for the person not just for the physical, you still feel lustful for them but it’s become more than just that. You want to be with this person because they make you feel loved, they make you smile and bring you joy. This love has the possibility of lasting but more often than not it ends. And when these people part it’s usually on bad terms, leaving one or both bitter.

Romantic Love – this love has aspects of both lustful and passionate love, but is most based on the actually caring for the other person, it’s not just about the physical or the way they make you feel but contains a great desire to simply see that other person is happy. It’s where you actually hurt when they hurt, where when they laugh you can’t help but smile. It’s joyful and sweet, and when it lasts is one awesome love. But what make this love so special, what makes it kinda rare is that if it doesn’t last you part sad that your parting, it hurts. But your love for that person really hasn’t disappeared but simply changed wanting only the best for them, wanting them to still be happy and truly wish them well.

Everything Love – is the rarest of loves, it’s hard to find, and in all honestly you may never find it. It’s the strongest love, if it’s truly Everything Love then it will last. Through the ups and downs, you will teach them and they will teach you, you will protect them and they will protect you, you will find great joy in knowing only that they are happy, it’s just as it sounds, it’s everything. Don’t get me wrong it contains moments of possessive love as well as moments of selfless love – the good and the bad…but it’s all of those loves combined that makes this love so strong.

To me there are a thousand different ways to love some one, and no two people I love are loved the exact same way. Each person I love is loved for who the are, the connection we have and the feelings that they inspire in me. I love some people with only one type of love and some with many types…these are but a few of the loves I believe in.