Love is a choice…but it is also a feeling state.
Love is a choice…but it is also a feeling state. Humans need to understand and embody both! The concept of human love is both abstract and concrete and can be divided into four categories: storge (affection), philia (friendship), eros (romance), and agape (sacrifice). The Greeks had four words to describe the dimensions and types of human love. In contrast, modern society has but one word to communicate a broad spectrum of emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and relationships that are the visible signs of love. The psychological sciences and philosophy can help to delineate the…