Styles Of Love Essay

In this chapter 2 of Knox and Schacht the authors explain the way to conceptualize love as well as all the aspects that are incorporated into love. The ways in which people view romantic and realistic love and how here in America we look at romantic love in a sort of fairy tale way. The authors explain the different styles of love that people can be categorized under in different relationships. Knox and Schacht take a look at arranged marriages in other countries and how love is intended to come after you are married and not before Knox and Schacht 2016, pg. 37-45). If relationships are focused on sexual attraction it takes away from simply being friends with a person which can also lead us to not actually seeing a person for who they really

To put a name to a love style that you may portray or have been in in a way makes you think a little more about that particular relationships and where they may have went wrong if it did and where you may want to fix some things if you are currently exhibiting that style of love. The main style that stands out to me is the Mania love style because it can be a dysfunctional type love that can get way out of hand. It seems like the type of love where if you and the person are no longer together you completely lose yourself as if you don’t know who you are without them. Arranged marriages have always been interesting to me because I really don’t understand them. Getting married to someone without loving them is confusing to me because what if you never grow to love them you simply grow to tolerate them. I also find that in Somé when she speaks on the village in Africa how sexuality and or lust is not present in relationships people start out as friends. I think that starting out as just friend and connecting with another person’s energy really would help you in the long run if it becomes something