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There is love towards our family members (parents, children etc) or even pets.
And then there is love towards a partner, that usually has a sexual component to it.
In my opinion, those are two completely different feelings, they have as much as nothing in common. Shouldn't there be 2 different words to point out the discrepancy?
Romantic love (partner)
Platonic love (friend)
Paternal love (Father)
Maternal love (Mother)
Fraternal love (Brother)
Sororal love (Sister)
It's too long. Should I tell my wife: "Honey, I romantically love you"? That sounds like shit.
Imagine, romantic love would be called love and all the other kinds of love would be called bimboom.
Everything would be so much better. I could tell my wife "I love you!" and I could tell my brother "I bimboom you!"
I suppose saying 'I love you' is very different from saying 'I am in love with you'.
Maybe having different words to describe the two feelings may be better but I don't think there is a lot that can be done about it.
In many languages there are multiple words for 'love,' English just isn't one of those languages.
That's a great idea! No wait.. it is just retarded.
There already are different types of love.
Type one
type two
type three
type four
Type five
type six
.......
There's so many words I could list that have way more than one or even two meanings, that doesn't mean that someone should go make up new words for it, that'd be so fetch. Just take the word "soft" for example, it has 23 more or less completely different meanings.
I thought the two types of love were conditional and unconditional.
Conditional should be more expanded to, what the other person does for you, emotionally, not just physically which I think describes a proper love between two partners.
I honestly think between parents and children and siblings it is part conditional and part unconditional. Does the Mother always love her child even though he is a terrible terrible child, because that would be an unconditional love.
Unconditional love, to me, in it's truest definition, is a physical feeling that you cannot not create, and is not created by others, but just flows, either from God, or in times of very pure spiritual connection. For instance, this guy was a jerk to me on Diablo 3, and I didn't react, and he started to beat up on himself, and I told him not to. And I'm not sure if I even realized it then but I had displayed unconditional love, I wasn't even trying but he felt I was the nicest person he had ever met. And I kind of understood what happened. I don't feel like that happens often.
I agree but the English language doesn't seen to support it, I see the romantic love lean more to companionship as a way of a definition
In Vietnamese there are two words for the two diff types of love that you pointed out.
Ich hab dich lieb (Family)
Ich liebe dich (Partner); the normal translation of "I love you"
Ich bin ich dich verliebt (Also for partner but higher valued than "Ich liebe dich")
That's it in german but we don't have much difference in it either^^
No actually I don't think there should be. That just seems extra. Why not tell your partner that you're 'in-love' and tell others that you 'love' them?
I think context usually shows what type of love it is...and basically what pisslan616
what if you want to sex up parents and siblings? then you'd have to use both words, or make a third new word for it. you could call it incest but that refers to breeding more than feelings. we need a new love word.