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I\u2019m going to be sharing video newsletters such as this more frequently from now on as I used to teach in a pre-school and loved story time, and this reminds me of that. I wish we were right now sitting around a circle together, eating snacks and prepping for Show & Tell.

This drama is necessary. Because one of two things will emerge from it. Either the person will be unable to let go of their conditions and they will therefore remove themselves from your life (which, ultimately, is a good thing in most cases). Or, the person will be forced to appreciate you unconditionally, to love you in spite of the inconveniences you may pose to themselves or their self-esteem.

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Psychologists, sociologists, and researchers disagree somewhat on the characterization of love. Many say it's not an emotion in the way we typically understand them, but an essential physiological drive. Psychologist and biologist Enrique Burunat says, "Love is a physiological motivation such as hunger, thirst, sleep, and sex drive." Conversely, the American Psychological Association defines it as "a complex emotion." Still others draw a distinction between primary and secondary emotions and put love in the latter category, maintaining that it derives from a mix of primary emotions.

For some people, love can be used to describe almost anything. OMG, I love this iced latte! This sweater is amazing, I love it. But, what about romantic relationships? For couples in long-term relationships, love means loyalty and commitment but for college students in the center of their first real relationship, love may feel messy and complicated.

The film is shot one evening, mostly in a man's apartment (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) on the Valentine's Day he intends to propose to his girlfriend. Before he can pop the question, he arrives home to discover she has mostly moved out. Then, several childhood friends and later several women arrive for a planned Valentine's party, all of which give their takes on relationships, love and interacting.

Historical, cultural and even evolutionary evidence suggests love existed during ancient times and across many parts of the world. Romantic love has been found to exist in 147 of 166 cultures looked at in one study.

As partners learn more about each other and become more confident in the long-term future of the relationship, routines develop. The opportunities to experience novelty and excitement can also decline, as can the frequency of sexual activity. This can cause passionate love to subside.

Although a reduction in passionate love is not experienced by all couples, various studies report approximately 20-40% of couples experience this downturn. Of couples who have been married in excess of ten years, the steepest downturn is most likely to occur over the second decade.

Love is an emotion that keeps people bonded and committed to one another. From an evolutionary psychology perspective, love evolved to keep the parents of children together long enough for them to survive and reach sexual maturity.

The period of childhood is much longer for humans than other species. As offspring rely on adults for many years to survive and to develop the skills and abilities needed for successful living, love is especially important for humans.

Not only is there an evolutionary foundation to love, love is rooted in biology. Neurophysiological studies into romantic love show that people who are in the throes of passionate love experience increased activation in brain regions associated with reward and pleasure.

Interestingly, these brain regions are not activated when thinking about non-romantic relationships such as friends. These findings tell us that liking someone is not the same as being in love with someone.

Storge is often regarded as a more mature form of love. Priority is given to having a relationship with a person who has similar interests, affection is openly expressed and there is less emphasis on physical attractiveness. People high on storge love are trusting of others and are not needy or dependent on others.

Manic love includes intense feelings for a partner as well as worry about committing to the relationship. Pragmatic love involves making sensible relationship choices in finding a partner who will make a good companion and friend. Agape is a self-sacrificing love that is driven by a sense of duty and selflessness.

People who have an insecure attachment style, involving a high need for validation and preoccupation with relationship partners, endorse more mania love, while those who are uncomfortable with intimacy and closeness do not endorse eros love.

As a child I remember the first time I came across the Love Is . . . comic strip. My mother was showing them to me as she was inspired by them during her days of courtship with my father in the early 70s. I remember appreciating the simplicity and simple statement of what love was. I was intrigued and at the same time curious to know if indeed these statements held any truth.

So beautiful! Truly made my day and I am inspired to spread more love around. When I asked the same question to my eight year old, her answer was, when one person gives happiness to another, it is love. Cheers! Anjana

Children know love before they are born, I think... from there, they are nurtured (hopefully) and they love as they have observed "love". Parents are vital in this role. People in their lives who have substance and good character will rub off on little kids and they will run with that and grow! Sometimes, it is under tragic circumstances that a child must learn LOVE on their own, and it's tricky because environment and resources (or lack thereof) can mean the difference between an opportunity to shine, or to fall to a bad way of life. Either way, I firmly believe that angels are always around to guide them...

Love is Christ. Then, and only then, love can be 'felt'. Little ones love because they are

inanely beloved of Christ...come to me as little children...trusting, forgiving, hopeful,

We all need to hear what God does and hear what little children hear and see. I am

as an old woman still learning. Are we ever to old (or harmed) to learn from the babes?

No!

Love this! I occasionally work with children in my congregation and every single time I am amazed with their responses. I feel that love "means" nothing, it is a feeling beyond description. It puts the soul at real peace. The outcome, of course is harmony and joy!

We have this idea of what love should look like, that parents should love their children a certain way, that spouses should love their spouse a certain way, that mothers should love their children, or that they should love their children a certain way.

But real love is complicated. Real love is messy. Real love is decisions and actions and thoughts and emotions, and continually learning who someone is and how that someone can fit into the chaos of our lives.

These momentous innovations are, or will likely be, seen by history as little appreciated in their time. But they are bound together by the bell hooks manifestation of love that I mentioned in the opening to this piece.

These dynamics are hindering our ability to come together with shared purpose and work towards shared goals, which is so necessary during times of national tumult. Embracing the love mindset can drive critical shifts in philanthropy and society more broadly:

The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, or BCC (also a grantee-partner of New Profit), was founded in the tradition of the 1960s movements for social and economic equity by friends and colleagues of five social justice activists who were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party at a community justice rally in 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The survivors of that tragic day initially pursued justice for the slain through the courts, eventually achieving a civil settlement after seeing two white-dominated juries exonerate the murderers of all criminal charges. The lessons learned led BCC to become a force for truth, justice, and reconciliation in North Carolina, where the legacy of racism remains painful and destructive. Drawing on lessons from the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and other similar efforts, BCC led a powerful truth, justice, and reconciliation process in Greensboro from 2000 TO 2006. In fact, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu traveled twice to Greensboro to offer spiritual and strategic guidance. That experience led to a substantive apology from the City of Greensboro for the roles played by police and city officials in those murders and established an annual scholarship for five high school students in the names of the five individuals killed. BCC is now leading a statewide truth, justice, reconciliation process in North Carolina.

Scientists in fields ranging from anthropology to neuroscience have been asking this same question (albeit less eloquently) for decades. It turns out the science behind love is both simpler and more complex than we might think.

According to a team of scientists led by Dr. Helen Fisher at Rutgers, romantic love can be broken down into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment. Each category is characterized by its own set of hormones stemming from the brain (Table 1).

A love that seeks anything safe and disposable on earth is constantly frustrated, because everything is doomed to die. In this frustration love turns about and its object becomes a negation, so that nothing is to be desired except freedom from fear. Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future.

This definition of love is completely countercultural, for two reasons. First, it requires acting in the interest of the other. We live in a society where we are told that we should do everything for our own benefit, whether that be going to party with friends on the weekend rather than spending time with our family, buying the newest iphone for ourselves when we have a completely functional one, or a variety of other things. When reflecting on this selfless action of love, I realize that often I do not live this out. While I desire to live out my life in a manner of love, so often I fall short when I put my own desires above that of others. e24fc04721