How can you tell romantic and platonic love apart? What does it mean to fall in love with someone?

  • TheDialectic [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think there is a difference. Part of the reasons things get weird is that tradition has mixed things up and split them up in ways that are artificial but financially viable. It is a patriarchy thing.

    The greeks they had four words egos, agape, fillia, and the one I always forget. But they are all terms to describe the social realities of caring for people more than the emotional ones.

    Really the only thing that varies is the degree to which you feel the emotion. For reasons that must have felt sensible at the time it was decided lust must be a part of love. It doesn’t, and isn’t.

    Also, I googled ot and they actually have eight types but it is hard to find a place that isn’t a mommy blog that talks about that so who knows. Embrace sexual anarchy