Many people don't know that there are 4 different types of love.
Éros is "physical" passionate love, with sensual desire and longing. Romantic, pure emotion without the balance of logic. "Love at first sight".
Philia is "mental" love. It means affectionate regard or friendship. This type of love has give and take. It is a dispassionate virtuous love. It includes loyalty to friends, family, and community, and requires virtue, equality and familiarity.
Storge means "affection" in ancient and modern Greek. It is natural affection, like that felt by parents for offspring and then almost exclusively as a descriptor of relationships within the family. It is also known to express mere acceptance or putting up with situations, as in "loving" the tyrant.
And the strongest love of all:
Agape. Love that is without expectations of return, unconditional, selfless love. The love Jesus had for us when he suffered and died on the cross for us. The love he felt while carrying his cross, and stopped to console the women. This is the love we strive for: the kind a parent has for their newborn baby in the middle of the night...every night . When you love someone so strongly you put their happiness before yours.That is agape.
